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To: salexander
Finding Noah's ark couldn't possibly do the theory of evolution any good.

Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

37 posted on 03/10/2006 4:32:20 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

You clearly have never seen an episode of Dr. Who. It's the same technology. Isn't it obvious?

39 posted on 03/10/2006 4:44:29 AM PST by RogueIsland (.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

Well, he obviously wouldn't need to bring aquatic animals, and if he had taken young representatives there would have been plenty of room. AiG says that insects could have survived on floating vegetation mats, but I think that's a little far-fetched.

Where AiG goes wrong however, is claiming that speciation can occur and that "kinds" could have been very broad categories of animals. This likely comes from the failure to realize that the species classification denotes that they can only produce viable offspring with fellow species members. For instance, I have seen a picture from their museum of a model of a giraffe-okapi blend. This would be impossible, as they are different species. AiG compares this to the types of dogs, but he seems to fail to realize that the breeds are all the same species.

49 posted on 03/10/2006 2:33:35 PM PST by Tim Long (I spit in the face of people who don't want to be cool.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

The only explanation I have heard is that most were in suspended animation for the duration.
107 posted on 03/11/2006 7:21:32 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

Actually, it was 2 of every unclean animals, and 7 of all clean animals...what God deemed as food for humans and what he did not. This doesn't neccessarily translate to wild and domesticated. For example, deer are clean animals, but wild. Pigs are unclean animals, but generally considered domesticated.

And the bible speaks about "kinds". For example, wolves, coyotes and dogs are all of one kind. He would only have had to have one representative. Many animals would not have needed to be on the ark, such as aquatic animals, fish, etc.

127 posted on 03/11/2006 9:24:21 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Non-Sequitur
...a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide...

There are some discrepencise on the exact measurement of a "cubit" generally it is estimated to be 18 inches, but an 'Egyptian cubit" is roughly two feet in length.

The anomaly pictured is roughly 1500ft by 300 ft which many believe falls into the size ratio described for the ark in the bible.

The picture looks like a rock formation to me, but what do I know, I slept through archaeology class in college.

150 posted on 03/11/2006 11:09:21 AM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Non-Sequitur

http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/ark/index.htm


222 posted on 03/11/2006 9:42:37 PM PST by johnnyb_61820
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

Actually, the cubit used was probably somewhat larger than 18", more like the 21" egyptian cubit, and the boat likely had many decks. The Babylonians report 6 decks in the Epic of Gilgamesh. That would be 6.3 acres of space.

How much space does it take to pen up Zoo animals for the winter? Not that much. Our Philadelphia Zoo is just 42 acres total, and most of that space is walking paths, water, summer grazing habitats, and the like, not animal enclosures. The non-hibernating animals would have required some food of course, but again, 6 acres is a lot of space for pens and food stores, and some of the food would have been produced by other animal's natural reproduction (i.e. bird eggs, fast-breeding mice and rats and rabbits, while fish could of course be caught off the side or back of the boat, etc.).

I think the problem is exaggerated.

234 posted on 03/12/2006 8:46:00 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months.

Double bunking?

Time/space shifting?

3:1 File compression (zip)?

And last, but not least, Bose noise-canceling headphones.

287 posted on 03/13/2006 10:50:06 AM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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