The Flood - Animals and their minimum food requirement

Hi CK, you're forgetting that Noah could have easily constructed multiple follower barges containing much of the food that the animals needed. Noah could have also used a series of fishing nets to capture enough fish to feed the carnivorous species.As for the rainwater flooding the ark, Noah would have no problem building a roof of some kind to prevent the rainwater from even entering the boat. No pumping system required...

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Well I must confess this is indeed a new one, I don't think anyone has suggested it before. So Noah built the ark and multiple barges?

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I think it's a reasonable assertion, yes. It wouldn't be much harder to construct enough barges to ease the food storage problem. They could be connected with gangways to allow the crew access. They also could be in close proximity to the ark.. not necessarily in a line.

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We can get into the specifics of which animals would actually be capable or willing to eat fish later but you are suggesting that this already overworked crew had time to operate fishing nets - really?

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I believe the crew was not necessarily overworked to begin with so using the nets would not really be such an issue. The other tasks which many suggest would take the crew a long time to do would be eliminated with efficient design of the ark.Edited by Bible Backer, : No reason given.

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"Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven." -Matthew 5:16

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< !--UE-->More problematic is the fact that a literal translation of Genesis 7:2 actually states that Noah took 14 of each clean animal on to the Ark.< !--UB [/quote] -->

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Hi Randy, Noah did in fact take 14 animals of the clean sort according to Genesis 7:2, but you must not assume that Noah was able to maintain all 14 over time. Noah could have used these 12 animals of each kind to feed the others, sparing two of each kind for mating after the flood.