So how did Noah get the critters from Australia across the ocean to his canoe and then get them back home?? Penguins too?? Where did all the Spiders roost? Did he also have Hedgehogs? Silly answers only...
You know there are two official versions of Noah and the ark. In the original (Torah), Noah took all animals except those with cloven hooves or considered unclean (shellfish). In the Christian version they leave this out.
Same with the Garden of Eden story. In the original (Torah) Adam had a wife prior to Eve; Lilith. She was made of the same soil as was Adam and was Adam's equal.. Adam did not like her equality because she would not obey his commands. He ask God for another mate. So Lilith was banished from the Garden. God made Eve from Adam's rib so that she would be subservient (made from man so answerable to man). I think there might be one passing reference ( one line) in Genesis if I remember correctly, in the Christian Bible.
Wait... what Christian version? Both versions are in the OT. And the Lilith story is Hebrew apocrypha if I recall, never in any orthodox version. Originally from Babylonian mythology.
Did they uber the koalas back, too?
@chalupacabre haha, must have. Maybe for payment for picking up the bones.
@chalupacabre I love the image of koala bears sitting in the back seat of an Uber. Mellow customers.
Well you see....
A modern misconception it that Noah had a boat, he didn't he had an ark. An ark is actually a box, think Indiana Jones Ark of the Covenant. And the only way that a box is going to fit that may animals inside is if it's bigger on the inside. And who has a boxes bigger on the inside, that's right Time Lords. Now I'm not say that Noah was definitely the Doctor but he was without a doubt from Gallifrey.
See, here's how it worked...
They loaded all the animals into the boat, and everything was fine for a few weeks... but the weight of all the accumulated droppings was weighing them down low in the water. So they took some shovels, tossed the droppings over the side, and named the result "Australia"....
(Sorry, sorry... )
In the UK we tend to say So they took some shovels, tossed the droppings over the side, and in 1492 Columbus ran in to it.
Spiders spun giant kites for each animal they disolved after they were used thus no evidence ...
I was watching a video just recently on spiders who spin 'balloon' webs that allows them to be airborne. Pretty amazing stuff.......so your 'theory' is based on reality!!!!
@patchoullijulie yeah I saw a quick video on Facebook gave me the idea
@Simon1 They were pretty amazing right. My worst nightmare....flying spiders!!!!
I am really tired of Noah's ark jokes. If there was an ark, it was loaded with critters native to the local of the ark. The local historians, who wrote the story, had no knowledge of critters on the other side of the world. Noah built the ark because he hallucinated gods orders. The great flood never covered the whole earth, but only the lands near the boat. I know this stuff because god told me last night in a nightmare, after I passed out from too much scotch.
Just like Santa Claus gets all the presents under the tree, he beams them there. Noah was a wise dude and besides being able to build a boat that would hold both dinosaurs and people he was able to feed them all with nothing spread thin. Had plenty of water to drink though.
I don't think so either but my Mom always said...
Don't you think that if God told Noah to build the boat he would make sure it floated and worked out just the way he wanted it to?
Faith was always her answer...blind faith...
Blind Faith one of my favorite albums. Oh shit now you know I am old.
God gave Noah embryo technology. As embryos are very small he had the ability to grow millions of "kinds?" of creatures instantly. Noah used transporter tech to place all "kinds?" of animals everywhere. The Bible says there is nothing new under the sun. Transporters in Star Trek are so 60s. You just have to think out side the box/Ark
Worms were in the wood...
Yes, but they did not eat all the way through the hull.
Another Important question is how did he get Pandas to mate. It has to be done artificially now. However he did it, it had to be pretty gross.
Good question. For most of the items of practical impossibility I can find a sensible allegory. Even the flood, as there are tales of an inundation from many folk tales of the region, has probably some ancient source. Maybe a breach at the Dardenelles to create The Black Sea. After all, the Ark apparently comes to rest on Mt Ararat . But I can't get the animal thing. My suspicion is that it is a back engineered story grafted on to the flood myth to answer "so why are the animals here"
I have been pondering the ark as allegorical for a farm, or at least the animal husbandry part of farming.
As humans transitioned from nomadic to agricultural society there had to be elements of the oral histories that helped people get their heads around leaving their established nomadic/Hunter/gatherer survival methods and trading them for new farming and domestication of animals.
In both ark and farm you need two of each animal that you intend to breed and you need to work your ass off in the good times and save up to prepare for bad times(winter/flood) and protect the animals.
@Jagnostic that's a good point, like transition from hunter/gatherer to settlement. Certainly fit the time frame for oral transmission. Reckon you are on to something there!
@Jagnostic Actually it would be impossible to start any population with just two animals. The inbreeding would kill them all in just a few generations. #farmboy
Jonah's whale! Apparently there was an apartment complex inside. If the world is going to flood, why not send a giant whale to store animals inside since the previous tenant had moved out?
Only one problem with that hypothesis. The time frame is wrong. Jonah moved in AFTER the animals!
...unless of course there was another pre-flood tenant whose name was also Jonah!
@Geoffrey51
You are forgetting miracles being scattered from above like rice at a wedding!
@Holysocks good point
I'm stuck on how he Built the Ark, never mind who he supposedly put into it.
It was a part works supplement that he had to subscribe to for about three years. And then the publisher went bust before they despatched the edition with the rudder
... Or maybe a project from one of those DIY shows and he just got lucky when the rains came.