There are currently about 2 million identified species of animal. Are we to believe that Noah gathered up 4 million animal and somehow had enough food and water to sustain them for a year on his boat?
Let me begin with a question of my own. How many of those 2million species live in the water and how many are land dwelling? It would also be helpful to know how many are insects. When you find the answers, we can discuss the food supply in more detail, but let me go ahead and point out that Noah and his family had plenty of time to prepare for the flood. It is highly likely that they thought to bring along a few nets for catching fish to feed the carnivores. Who knows, they may even have been able to gather enough flotsam to feed every herbivore on board as well. A world-wide flood would leave a lot of plants floating on the water. We must also keep in mind that the birds were able to leave the ark to search for food (Gen 8:6-12), thus we will need to know how many of the 2 million species are birds.
If there were only 2 of every animal, what did the herbivores (plant eaters) eat and what did the carnivores (meat eaters) eat after they got off the ark?
There were actually seven of every kind of clean beast and seven of every kind of bird brought onto the ark (Gen 7:2-3). This might have been done to provide for the needs of carnivores. We must also remember that the fish were not destroyed by the flood (Gen 7:21-23). As for the herbivores, the Bible clearly shows that Noah did not leave the Ark until plant life had resumed on the earth (Gen 8:10-12).
If the universe was created 6 thousand years ago, how come we can see stars that are millions of light years away?
Actually, the exact distances between the stars is unknown. Scientists have made some educated guesses based on assumed characteristics, but they still cannot say with certainty how far the stars are from the earth. But let’s assume for the moment that those guesses are correct. Dr. Russell Humphreys from the Institute for Creation Research has provided an answer for this question. I don’t believe his most recent findings have been published as yet, but let me quote the synopsis provided by ICR in their July 2007 issue of
Acts and Facts.
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Recently, Dr. Russell Humphreys, as part of the ICR COSMOS program, reported that he has successfully developed a new solution to Einstein’s equation of
general relativity which lays a foundation for a new creationist cosmology. His solution
is based on using boundary conditions which place earth at the center of the heavens
rather than at some insignificant position in a universe with no center or outer
boundary. He had reported earlier in Starlight and Time that time would be slowed
dramatically near the center of such a cosmos because of the gravitational effects of
the mass of stars surrounding earth. In other words, a day on earth would be equivalent
to millions or billions of years at the stars far from earth, resulting in sufficient time
for their light to reach earth in only thousands of years of earth time. Dr. Humphreys has now formulated his model into predictive equations which can be used to explain other observations and validate his solution, such as the red shifts of stars, the rotation of galaxies, and the “Pioneer Anomaly.”
quoted from Error | The Institute for Creation Research
Psalm 104:5 "He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." But we know through scientific observations that the Earth does indeed move.
The movement of the earth through space is often accepted as a proven fact when, in reality, all available evidence leads to the exact opposite conclusion. In fact Steven Hawking himself admitted as much in his book
A Brief History of Time just before stating that he refused to believe that the earth was at the center of the universe because he was too modest to think of his planet as being something special (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - New York: Bantam Books, 1990 - pg. 42).
Isaiah 40:22 "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in."
The Earth is a circle? 2 dimensional? Flat? What more can I say?
This verse merely states that the earth has a circle which is true, for all spheres are composed of circles.
Ecclesiastes 1:6 "The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course."
Just so you know, the wind direction is predominantly east and west, not north and south.
Actually, the wind direction is predominantly North East or North West and South East or South West as you can see in this
picture .
Genesis 22:17 "I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies"
The number of people on Earth right now is about 6.4 billion. There is an estimated 400 billion stars in this galaxy alone. The number of people on Earth right now doesn't even come close to 400 billion.
How many descendents of Abraham are alive right now? Do you know? Can you tell me how many descendants of Abraham were alive at any point in history from the time of Abraham’s death until now? Have you ever even tried to list all the countries that the Jewish people currently live in?
The Bible states that God will multiply Abraham’s descendants as the stars of heaven (Gen 22:17). It claims that the Jewish people will be so numerous that one will no more be able to count them than he could count the number of stars in the sky or sand on the seashore (Gen 13:16, 15:5, 32:12). It never states that there will be as many descendants of Abraham as there are stars in the sky; just that they will be equally innumerable.
I've been told all my life that the rapture is just right around the corner... anytime now. Well?
I think that the Bible has already answered this one far better than I ever could .
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Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? (II Peter 3:3-11)
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