Did Moses Take All Animals Onto The Ark?

[plowter]

Did Moses take all animals onto the ark?
What about the unclean animals, like the pig, camel and tortoise?

[naomi24]

Noah was instructed to take 7 of every clean animal and 2 of every unclean animal – although since God didn’t reveal which animals were clean and which were not until long after the event, how Noah knew the difference is rather baffling. The best question I’ve ever seen asked on the subject was ‘where did Noah keep the whales?’

[bookbinder]

Some animals would probably have been unknown (i.e. not yet discovered) in Noah's time, so did they get left behind?

[naomi24]

Who knows? Everything that wasn't aboard the ark perished - allegedly.

[LazyGun]

They washed them, using a walk through washing system just before the up-ramp onto the ark.

Kinda like a drive thru car wash, only for animules ;)

[annieigma]

Probably, there was a man called noah, who saw that the rain was incessant, so built a floating platform, not really a boat as such, and then took his family and his personal livestock on the boat with him when his piece of land was flooded, landed on the side of a hill, and carried on with his life. I think that noah risked his and his families life to save his animals, sounds more realistic to me, and makes a good biblical tale.

[Mosaic]

It's...a.....story.......

Ok,so.....why did the Three Bears make porrdige when they could just eat Goldilocks?
Considering either question carries equal weight.

[naomi24]

Oh no. It was definitely a boat. The bible gives instructions for its construction.

[naomi24]

Sorry, that was to annieigma.

[Mosaic]

The Bible was repeating a story that was already ancient folklore to the Sumerians in 2000 BC, part of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

[naomi24]

Absolutely. Such stories come from around the world - China included.

[sandyRoe]

The story of the inundation may not be so unlikely as some think. After the last Ice Age the land which is now the bottom of the North Sea was populated. Who is to say something similar didn't happen in the Med?

[jomifl]

‘where did Noah keep the whales?’ Whales were still fish then so didn't qualify for passage on the ark, I'm not sure that the jewish rules about 'clean' and 'unclean' animals had even been developed or even that Noah was a jew. So that is probably another bit of nonsense to add to the mix.

[naomi24]

It's not unlikely that some areas flooded - but it's highly unlikely that the whole of the earth flooded.

[Mosaic]

Sandy, my personal view is that the tales originate from a collective experience formed by the inundation of the Black Sea around 8000 BC

[jomifl]

Sandy, If scientists are to be believed at least part of the time despite the tissue of lies that they disseminate in contradiction of god's word then you may well be correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outburst_flood

[naomi24]

Jom, whales aren't fish - they're mammals.

[naomi24]

.... or did you mean they've evolved since then? Nah. No such thing as evolution. ;o)

[Mosaic]

Oh Jomifl - you know what us pesky 'scientists' are like with our 'evidence'......

[DTCwordfan]

Noah took two Chinese with him, they ate everything aboard, including the tortoises, but then refused the two horses and that is how Noah rode into history.

[jomifl]

Naomi, of course whales have always been mammals, we know that but I suspect that in Noah's day anything that lived in water was classified as a fish, so had to take their chances since they would almost certainly die aboard the ark?
This is all delightfully silly :-)