Chapter 29 -
What about the size of the ark! It's impossible to get all the animals in it!
Nope, it's not
impossible. Here's why. The ark was big enough to hold 530 railroad
cars. They put 250 sheep in a railroad car these days, so that's 132500
sheep size animals. Yea, I know there's a lot more types of animals than
that, but God only needed to preserve one of each kind of animal.
He didn't need every species of dog, or cow, or giraffe, or cat. He only
needed two of each kind and let the gene's that He designed do the rest of the
work when they left the ark.
Gen 8:19 Every beast, every creeping
thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth,
after their
kinds
, went forth out of the ark.
I mean, God is God. Why
would we limit what He can do when He's the one who spoke them into existence in
the first place? It only sounds impossible if we think about trying to do
it without God. Then I think it would be impossible.
The earth was a much
different place then. The continents were connected because the ocean
levels were so low as I mentioned earlier. The animals migrated around the
globe by walking there.
Some say it was just a local flood only in the middle east, but that is not what
the bible says. The whole earth was flooded just as the bible says, and
the evidence is everywhere.
Gen 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits
upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
You can't cover the mountains with water and have the valleys dry...
Also, if it was just a local flood, why didn't Noah just move away? He had
over 100 years to build the ark. He could have just moved his family in
that amount of time.
People also ask: How did they take enough food for everything?
Remember the two times in Matthew 14 and 15 where Jesus fed thousands of people
with a few fish and loaves of bread? God can do anything and He simply
took care of it. No mystery or impossibility. If God weren't
involved, yes, it would have been impossible, but God is not limited like we
are, He is God.