| The ark must have been much larger than the | | | | fresh fruit would not have lasted long with |
| dimensions in the Bible, 450' x 75' x 45', | | | | no refrigeration either. Lettuce wilts and |
| simply just would not have worked. There are | | | | turns brown after a week in the refrigerator. |
| 350,000 kinds of beetle alone. Not counting | | | | Meat gets putrid after a short time in the |
| all the other kinds of insects. That is a | | | | refrigerator. Where did Noah get fresh |
| lot of cages. The cages had to be made very | | | | eucalyptus for the koalas and bamboo for the |
| well considering that at that time there were | | | | pandas? Maybe Noah used tough love and made |
| not items available for cage construction | | | | them all eat hay.What about the dinosaurs? |
| like plastics, glass and metal. That must | | | | There were roughly 668 species of them. Some |
| have been hard work just dealing with the | | | | creationists say that the fossils found today |
| insects. Each bug has a different diet and | | | | are the dinosaurs that died during the flood. |
| environment.There are 925 species of bats, | | | | Why weren't they allowed on board? Did God |
| 200 species of primates, 192 species of | | | | just decide that He did not want them around |
| hoofed animals and 270 kinds of carnivores, | | | | anymore? Why doesn't the Bible mention these |
| just to name a few. Now wouldn't it have | | | | creatures, at all? Could it be because they |
| been difficult to keep the carnivores from | | | | were extinct by then? I have also heard the |
| thinking that all the other passengers, | | | | argument that they were on board. Has anyone |
| including Noah and family, were brought on | | | | seen "Jurassic Park?" Apparently not the |
| board as their food? A kind of all you can | | | | people who include the dinosaurs on their |
| eat buffet?There are 2000 different types of | | | | vision of the ark. The idea that the large |
| rodents. Anyone who has ever had a rodent | | | | animals were brought on board as infants and |
| for a pet knows that you cannot keep them in | | | | eggs is impossible also. Make believe. How |
| wooden cages; they chew through wood.It would | | | | could they store all that specialized milk |
| have taken a really well built wooden cage to | | | | with no refrigeration. Who would keep all of |
| keep the lion inside from eating the antelope | | | | the eggs incubated with no electricity?This |
| next to it. Or was this the time when we are | | | | was an incredibly disgusting way of ridding |
| supposed to believe that the big cats ate | | | | the world of all the sin and it obviously did |
| grain and nothing was caged? Have you seen | | | | not work. Why did all of the animals except |
| the difference between a cat's teeth and a | | | | one pair have to die, what did they do? The |
| cow's teeth? Do you know why zoo animals are | | | | babies and children that died were being |
| kept in cages or enclosures with specific | | | | punished for their parents sins, right? Then |
| species? They all do not get along. Some | | | | after all this, what was the point of Noah |
| animals would eat each other.Enough food for | | | | sacrifing some of the birds and animals that |
| all these creatures is difficult to imagine. | | | | he went to extremes to save?Some stories in |
| Fresh meat for carnivores would have been | | | | the Bible are so implausible, how can we |
| difficult especially since there was no | | | | believe this is God's inspired word? |
| refrigeration at the time. Plant food and | | | | |