Aaron Thrash

While I was at work today I began thinking. It was probably spurned by Plognarks webpage, which I think everyone should read. I emailed a link to my dad, he loved it.

So, I'm at work and walking around and thinking about Noah's Ark and the ridiculous idea that he and his seven family members traversed the continents to collect all the animals and store them on his boat (I assume Noah must have traveled around, for there was no Pangea). And it got me thinking...

Why didn't Noah keep a record of all the animals names onboard the vessel? We have an excellent record of all the begats. Someone took exhaustive hours to keep a record of that, but yet no mention of all the animals known to man in that time.

I believe it was Adam who was said to have named them. I remember as a child sitting in Sunday School reading the bible and hereing that part about how Adam named all the animals, and was ready to hear them all to see if they were the same as all the animals names nowadays. I was disappointed to find out there were none.

It never struck me as odd until today. Why is there no record of all the animals that existed and that would have been taken on board Noah's Ark?

-A

Chris Weimer

once again, because it is all made up!

funinspace

Well, if your going to have the whole thing in a literal context, it was all later dictated to Moses, some 900-1000 years later. You sea, da hole world musta ben ingorent at tat tiem. So God had to later dictate it for the dumb humans, when they finally got their act together. You see Satan, planted all those writings of the Chinese, Sumerians, and Egyptians so it would look like civilization history was older than it realy was.

And besides, why couldn't have God Scotty just beamed the animals to Noah (unmentioned miracle number 17 to keep the tidy tale from sinking). The canon doesnt' say it didn't happen that way, so it could have... :devil3: Seriously though, you will just go around in circles arguing with fundies at this level.

maddog

Well, it's all so humano-centric, isn't it? Isn't the whole thing a kind of record of justification of the Hebrew/Jewish understanding of history and their place in it? The human beings are the ones "made in God's image," and the human beings were given "dominion" over all the animals and the earth. The "begats" are there to show the lineage of the various races and tribes, and to explain how one people has "rightful" hegemony over others. Only people have "souls." Animals are just "things" to be used.

Casper

I'm reminded of something I read a long time ago, something about after the first couple of months on stable duty, Shem suddenly produced a whole mess of salted behemoth...