Wednesday, February 25, 2015
How Could Noah Fit All The Animals Into The Ark?
My friend Shari Abbott wrote this article for Reasons for Hope
This is a common question and it’s a question
we have answered with one of our popular deBUNKED videos. Borrowing from
the study guide that accompanies the deBUNKED DVD, I will answer this question.
Skeptics claim that there’s no way Noah could
have fit all the animals on the ark.
Michael Shermer, a self-proclaimed
atheist, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and director of the Skeptics
Society, is quoted as having said, “There’s no possible way that Noah
could have retained all 10 billion species on a single boat and then
distributed them appropriately where the marsupials are all in Australia and so
forth. This is ridiculous. It is so ridiculous I find it
embarrassing for people who attempt to prove that it’s true.”
And God made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind… (Genesis
1:25)
Using
a small cubit to be conservative, we can calculate the ark to have been 450
feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high, with three decks, a door and a
window. This was a huge sea-worthy vessel with more than 100,000 square
feet of floor space and a cubic volume of more than 1.5 million
cubic feet, which is about the capacity of 522 railroad stock cars!
Now we must ask, how many sheep can
fit into 522 railroad stock cars? The average railroad double-deck stock
car can hold about 240 sheep. Here’s the math: 522 stock cars x 240
sheep = 125,280 sheep.
CONCLUSION: 125,280
sheep-sized animals can fit on 522 railroad cars. Remember, the ark would
have carried only 30,000 sheep-sized animals (average
size of land animals). There was plenty of room for
all the animals, all the supplies for the year-long stay on the ark…and eight
people on the ark that Noah built!
It’s really amazing and assuring that
in God’s Word we can find answers and reasoning to our questions. Through
the power of His Holy Spirit, our great God teaches us all things:
…the Comforter, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you. (John 14:26)
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