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Originally posted by no2creation:
I will attempt to answer this one for you quicksink.
Please choose the answer that best suits your belief:
1. God put more people on the ship to help Noahs family feed and take care of the animals.
2. God gave Noahs family supernatural powers, so just a few of them could feed and take care of the animals.
3. God looked after them, while Noahs family enjoyed the cruise of their lifetime!
4. The animals were given supernatural powers, and they didn't have to eat. Instead God put them into a deep sleep that lasted the entire flood.
5. Noahs Ark is just a story!
With as much fairness to the biblical account as I am willing to
give (I'm not a beleiver myself), the story says that Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japhet and their wives were aboard.
It does NOT say how many wives they each had, and there is no
reason to accept monogamy as a norm at that time.
[Just added this bit]
I don't think that the excrement couldn't be dealt with ...
I mean ... what else would they have to do?
It IS a huge stretch of the imagination though ... especially to
suggest (as someone has) that sufficient bedding would do it!!
That said ... the whole story of all those animals on a wooden boat
is overwhelmingly implausible.
[This message has been edited by Peter, 03-11-2002]