Polar bears, limbless lizards and bush babies...
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:34 pm
Suppose you had to go out and get your self a polar bear? How about a bush baby? How about a penguin or a rare poisonous tree frog?
What if you had to also prepare a place for your animal to live and aquire enough food for it to live for for several months (why several months? You will see).
Call such a task a "species project".
On the average, how long would such a species project take?
Weeks?, a week?, with Gods help a day?
How about just an hour?
Ok that's ridiculous but lets play anyway.
So how long did it take Noah to do this for every species?
Well, lets say it only took him an hour per species (which is, of course, just nuts).
Well, if he really got all species then it would take him roughly 2000 years (using 20 million species).
60*(1/(60))*(1/(24))*(1/(365))*(20,000,000)= = 2283. 1 years
OK, well, let's reduce it to just land animals. Then it's about 50 to 100 years!
But what was that polar bear doing for that 50 years while Noah got the rest of the animals at a rate of one per hour?
Most would be dead of old age by the time he finished.
Creationists try to reduce it to about 50,000 species (why they get to cheat and stop being literal at this point I am not sure)
Now it takes about six years. But again, we only assumed that we arranged for enough food and accomodations for a few months for each animal (many different diets etc.). So what was the Polar bear, or whichever species he loaded first, doing for those 6 years?
Some species only live a few hours or even minutes!!
Then finally, remember that an hour per species is unreasonable anyway. It would take me much more than a day to get a giraffe or even a mere cat. Of course, Noah didn't even have my modern means of transportation.
So are you an EV, Bible literalist? Do you know one?
I suggest you ask "whats up with that?"
Edited to add: Noah had only seven days to load up the Ark ( Gen. 7:4-10). If only 16,000 animals were on the Ark, then one animal must have been loaded every 38 seconds with no breaks. There really would have had to be orders of magnitude more animals to load if we take the Bible literally.
If you are not a literalist then I guess you can imagine that Noah was a farmer who puts a few pigs and goats on small barge or raft and road out a small flood for a day or so.
Maybe he just helped a pig over a puddle.
What if you had to also prepare a place for your animal to live and aquire enough food for it to live for for several months (why several months? You will see).
Call such a task a "species project".
On the average, how long would such a species project take?
Weeks?, a week?, with Gods help a day?
How about just an hour?
Ok that's ridiculous but lets play anyway.
So how long did it take Noah to do this for every species?
Well, lets say it only took him an hour per species (which is, of course, just nuts).
Well, if he really got all species then it would take him roughly 2000 years (using 20 million species).
60*(1/(60))*(1/(24))*(1/(365))*(20,000,000)= = 2283. 1 years
OK, well, let's reduce it to just land animals. Then it's about 50 to 100 years!
But what was that polar bear doing for that 50 years while Noah got the rest of the animals at a rate of one per hour?
Most would be dead of old age by the time he finished.
Creationists try to reduce it to about 50,000 species (why they get to cheat and stop being literal at this point I am not sure)
Now it takes about six years. But again, we only assumed that we arranged for enough food and accomodations for a few months for each animal (many different diets etc.). So what was the Polar bear, or whichever species he loaded first, doing for those 6 years?
Some species only live a few hours or even minutes!!
Then finally, remember that an hour per species is unreasonable anyway. It would take me much more than a day to get a giraffe or even a mere cat. Of course, Noah didn't even have my modern means of transportation.
So are you an EV, Bible literalist? Do you know one?
I suggest you ask "whats up with that?"
Edited to add: Noah had only seven days to load up the Ark ( Gen. 7:4-10). If only 16,000 animals were on the Ark, then one animal must have been loaded every 38 seconds with no breaks. There really would have had to be orders of magnitude more animals to load if we take the Bible literally.
If you are not a literalist then I guess you can imagine that Noah was a farmer who puts a few pigs and goats on small barge or raft and road out a small flood for a day or so.
Maybe he just helped a pig over a puddle.
