How did Noah deal with worms?

I don't see why he couldn't have scooped up a bucket of dirt and tossed some leaves on top of it. Worms live a long time with neglect (I speak from experience) they don't require much. Halfway decent moisture, organic material, and a little bit of grit will keep them kicking.Also, what about their eggs. I don't know much once you get into that area.

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What about ringworms, tapeworms, heartworms, hookworms, threadworms, whipworms, pinworms, roundworms?

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Thanks for the welcome. Whipworms can live as eggs in the soil. They can survive for 5 years in the area an infected dog was. I know that roaches can carry roundworms. Also, roundworms are not that bad, an adult cat could have carried them without problems showing. Tapeworms can be carried by fleas and mice. The animal eats the flea (EW) to get the worm. Dogs will live for years with heartworms before showing symptoms. Ringworm is a fungus that could easily have been carried on a critter or two. The larvae of hookworms can actually live for months outside a body without food. Pinworms can live in you without causing any problems, other than making you itch down there when they deposit eggs on your behind (can I hear another EW?).

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Well how about ice worms then? These creatures can only exist on glaciers in temperatures at the freezing point of water or less.Unless you are seriously going to suggest that noah also had refrigeration aboard the Ark{which is a can of worms you don't want to open} please explain how these creatures were able to survive?

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On the glaciers.This message has been edited by southerngurl, 12-07-2004 09:42 AM

I can tell you are telling the truth, as you say "Arkansawyer", rather than "Arkansan" LOL.What about iceburgs?Do these worms have lungs?

Sure.

Sure is!
He seemed to imply they had breath though. Absorbing oxygen through the skin is not "breath".

...This message has been edited by southerngurl, 12-07-2004 03:49 PM

Here are the verses:

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22Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils were the breath and spirit of life died.
23God destroyed (blotted out) every living thing that was upon the face of the earth; man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed (blotted out) from the land. Only Noah remained alive, and those who were with him in the ark.(5)

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It speaks of dry land and the face of the earth, so it would be the land and flying animals that died. It speaks of those from the land and air entering the ark.This message has been edited by southerngurl, 12-07-2004 03:48 PM

I don't see why the worms wouldn't survive on some glaciers.

I don't think the whole earth, including the poles, would entirely melt...

Ice shelves will float.

From: http://www.glacier.rice.edu/land/5_iceofallshapes.html

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Ice shelves are thick plates of ice, fed by glaciers, that float on the ocean around much of Antarctica.

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They float, thus they won't be under water.

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Ignoring the fact that glaciers are made of ice and worms eat dirt (thus, they wouldn't have any food and would die from starvation), the Bible directly contradicts this possibility:

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Genesis 8:8: Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

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8:9: But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

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If there were icebergs and other floating mats, the dove would have found a place to rest her foot. But there weren't any, so we can't even consider floating anything as a safe haven for animals not on the ark.

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LOL, it would have to be quite the dove to fly over the entire earth. Likely the dove would only have traveled a few miles from the ark.Also, these particular worms do not feed on dirt, but algea. Earthworms do not exaclty feed on dirt. They feed on organic material, such as leaves, ect.

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I mean, we're talking about the "fountains of the deep", which, by virtue of proximity to the moletn mantle, are already superheated.

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Actually, in my experience, most springs are ice cold.. and have excellent tasting water!I simply can't picture the poles melting because of rain.

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Thanks, Deathknight. But the scary thing is that creationist societies all over the US have this painting of the inside of the ark, and guess what, you see the top of a stegasaurus in the foreground!
Now, if NO-ah had to carry some dinosaurs, how much room would be left for anything else? Also, how much freakin' food would just one stegasaurus go through in one day alone?

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ROFLOL, anyone who thinks dinosaurs were on the ark does have some problems. Oh yes, 2 stegs, 2 tyrannosaurus, 2 brontos, 2 triceratops, 2 ankylosaurus, oops we're full, sorry to the rest of you!No, dinos died out long before God made man.