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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Voyagers on the Ark of Noah
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:13:10 GMT
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- Ah, yes... the Cotera himself...
-
- In article <1993Jan26.114045.1@woods.ulowell.edu> cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- >Well, I can't answer all your questions (or even most of them), but you can't
- >say I've ignored the issue.
-
- The Bible : How was the ark made seaworthy? The longest wooden ships in modern seas
- : are about 300 feet, and these require reinforcing with iron straps
- : and leak so badly they must be constantly pumped.
- >
- >You're not going to like this answer. What was the point of having Noah build
- >the ark? Wasn't it to preserve man and the animals? So wouldn't it make sense
- >if God made sure the ark was sea-worthy?
-
- So Noah didn't do it himself?
-
- : How were animals collected from all over the world?
-
- >Like I said before, they were brought to Noah.
-
- Sez who?
-
- : Life on the ark:
- : What did the carnivorous animals eat, especially those which require fresh
- : meat?
-
- >Man was not able to eat meat until after the flood. Perhaps this was true of
- >all carnivores and omnivores.
-
- Huh? I thought it was only after the Fall (much earlier than
- the Flood) that animals started killing other animals and eating meat.
- At least that's what used to be believed. But that does not explain
- the abundance of adaptations for a predatory lifestyle that some
- animals have. This means fossil ones also.
-
- In summary:
-
- Were all the lions eating Vegecat in the Garden of Eden?
-
- It's a pity that the Bible makes no mention of Vegecat as a
- non-meatfood for hungry felines.
-
- : How did creatures needing special environments survive on the ark?
- >
- >For example?
-
- Like cold or heat. The Flood would have been terribly mixed
- up, and would have been of the wrong salinity for a lot of sea life.
- Freshwater fish only like freshwater and saltwater fish only like
- saltwater, and it is the rare fish that can live in both kinds.
-
- So did Noah's Ark contain a big aquarium? Or two big ones, one
- for the freshwater fish and one for the saltwater fish?
-
- : How well ventilated was the ark? The body heat from millions of closely
- : packed animals must have been very intense.
- >
- >Obviously it was ventilated enough.
-
- It was, therefore it was, therefore it was.
-
- >It's still here.
-
- Not enough to cover the land.
-
- : Is the flood model consistent with the Bible?
- : The model seems to say that large numbers of kinds of land animals
- : became extinct because of the flood, while Genesis repeatedly says
- : that Noah was ordered to take a representative sample of all kinds of
- : land animals on the Ark to save them from extinction, and that Noah
- : did as ordered. Which is right?
- >
- >The Bible takes precedence over any theory (Creationist or otherwise).
-
- Tell that to our friendly neighborhood Veda-thumper, Kalki
- Dasa. He'll tell you all about which sacred books take precedence over
- all the others :-)
-
-
-
-
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
-