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Originally Posted by Faith  Ok, what you are saying is illogical because if God commanded Noah to make a boat, and have all animals 2 clean, 7 of unclean each, even carnivours, then he obviously had a plan. He can do what he wants, and to you it seems strange, and teases your brain, so you say it is impossible. God could keep the carnivours calm and do anything else that he needed to do until the flood was over. |
I didn't mean that the carnivores would need to be kept calm . . . I meant that they would need to eat. Since carnivores eat meat, even if we assume Noah was able to feed them on the ark, what about after they got off? Carnivores wouldn't be able to hunt without causing the extinction of several of the species that God had intended for the ark to save in the first place.
Faith, you have to admit that it implies some absurdities. I'm not saying it is impossible, but I am saying that it is absurd. I can deal with absurdity just fine, I just hate when people ignore it. God tells Noah to bring plenty of food for his family and the animals (Gen 6:21), but then the carnivores apparently don't need to eat (why not just do the same for all of the animals?). Plant life is somehow able to survive the flood, but the animals need a boat. The animals can't survive a flood, but they can survive the methane, carbon dioxide, and other gases that would build up in a giant boat with only one window. God goes out of his way to perform all of these miracles to make sure that everything on the ark can survive, but He doesn't even bother to tell Noah when it is time to come out . . . he needs birds for that. Hell, there are more miracles involved in making the whole ark story work in the first place than it would have taken God to simply make all of the creatures he wanted dead just suddenly drop dead.
And let's not forget that the flood story implies that a few thousand years ago, all life on earth was capable of surviving in the same climate. Compare that with what we have now, and young earth creationists are stuck with defending a much more drastic form of evolution than mainstream biologists.
I'm not trying to make fun of you, I believe in some absurd things too.