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?

[vulcan]

Stir fried elephant, mmm delicious.

[naomi24]

Jom, isn't it. :o)

[wildwood]

Whales were around 40 million years ago. My mother told me, so it must be true! 10 million years before that they were doglike mammals that started hunting at the seashore and than swimming.. etc. etc.

[jomifl]

A quick visit to wikipedia indicates that the flood took place (if it ever did)about 2000 years before the jewish culture began. It is likely that the concept of clean and unclean animals is a later development that was tacked on to the story to support religious dogma (as ever). So don't worry plowter it was never a problem, particularly for giraffes.

[vascop]

Anybody who thinks Moses was involved with the ark can't be taken seriously.
It was Noah you ******.

[maggiebee]

Well, if the unicorns hadn't been having such fun and turned up late, they would have been aboard. Mind you, the woodpeckers were a bugger!

[Mammar]

The question is . . If 2 rabbits went on, how many got off?

[fredkins]

Vascop you are right ,that Is all I am going to say on this matter.

[ladybirder]

Good job DT wasn't on the ark, there wouldn't have been any animals left as he seems partial to most things:-)

[dotty.]

I can imagine Noah and Mrs Noah standing there watching the animals boarding the Ark, Noah turning to Mrs Noah and saying that immortal line 'We're going to need a bigger boat'.

[Teddio]

If all tectonic activity ceased then in a few billion years, due to erosion, there would be no land above sea level.

[goodlife]

Every so often, it seems, there is a flurry of publicity about the search for Noah’s ark. Your excitement is understandable. That gigantic vessel in which Noah and his family survived the Flood back in 2370-2369 B.C.E. would certainly make for a remarkable archaeological find. Despite many efforts, though, the search for Noah’s ark is ongoing. Amid all the speculation and sensational claims,but Would finding Noah’s ark really confirm and even create faith? The Bible shows that genuine faith does not depend on objects we can see and touch. (Luke 16:31)

[RATTER15]

It appears that Noah was about 400 years old when he started building the ark and nearly 500 years old by the time he finished it.
Well it was a big boat and it was such a big boat that even today with computer aided design it would be impossible to build a boat of such huge dimensions that would not disintegrate as soon as it hit the water.

[Goonermatt]

IF there were such an ark and Noah (or Moses, if you like) did indeed take two (like the song says) of every animal onto the ark with him, can somebody please estimate the size of such a vessel?

Taking into account how many different kinds of animals would have been given passage and that they would each surely require their own living quarters (you wouldn't put the chicken in the same cabin as the fox, would you?) just how big would this ark have to be?!

[Goonermatt]

beat me to it, Ratter.

So what you're saying is that according to the Bible, back in the day people lived for over 500 years?

[RATTER15]

Goonermatt, certainly did, Noah actually lived for 350 year after the flood, he died aged 950 years old. I bet he tell a yarn or two over a pint of mead!!

[RATTER15]

Ok so the numbers don't quite correlate but im sure you get the gist.

[Goonermatt]

Ratter, so old Noah rivalled Methuselah himself in the old git stakes?

And what happened in the last couple of thousand years that has pegged average life expectancy back to between 30 and 80 years, depending on where you live?

And someone needs to update Wikipedia....

"The oldest confirmed recorded age for any human is 122 years (see Jeanne Calment). This is referred to as the "maximum life span", which is the upper boundary of life, the maximum number of years any human is known to have lived.[8]"

Have they not heard of Noah and his 900 year old pals?

[RATTER15]

Its all in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah