The Amazing Violent/Non-Violent Flood

quote:

---

if you believe that all the animals could eat reeds, then you could imagine a system whereby Noah just pulled down some parts of the stall wall to feed the animals, thus minimising the amount of moving fodder around. They would gradually eat themselves free!

---

Excellent! This certainly solves the food problem quite handily. After all, if you simply calculate how many kilos of reeds it takes to keep one animal, say a bengal tiger, alive for a year, then build the stalls accordingly you've got it made.Oh, wait a minute, that won't work. I think carnivory was supposed to have been derived from the Fall, not the Flood. Damn, back to the drawing board.BTW: I still think the "cheetah as last common ancestor for all life on Earth" is the best explanation. The reed boat hypothesis doesn't falsify that idea. Your reed stalls kept the herbivores alive long enough for the predators to eat them.