Re: Noahs Ark


unrestrained_hand@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> John Harshman wrote:
> > Ron O wrote:
> >
> > > Bob D wrote:
> > >
> > >>How did Noah distribute his ship full of land animals in such a way
> > >>that their present distribution is consistent with continental drift?
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve AVE or KSJJ or someone like them once proposed that Noah built a
> > > smaller Ark and distributed the animals to their proper places. It
> > > would be difficult to get a spiny ant eater back to Australia where all
> > > the related fossils are without a boat. Can koalas swim?
> >
> > You forget that until some time after the flood (perhaps in the days of
> > Peleg), all the continents were gathered into Pangaea. So walking would
> > have sufficed; in fact a boat wouldn't have done any good.
> >
> > God got the animals into the ark, and he got them out, and back to where
> > all their fossils were. Presumably, he gave all the animals (and plants,
> > but that's another story) instincts that caused them, over years, to
> > seek their proper spots. For unknown reasons he missed a few places, and
> > that's why there are elephant and horse fossils all over North America,
> > but no live elephants or horses until quite recently.
> >
> > Speaking of koalas, think of the poor fellows trudging, year by year, on
> > their short little legs, in search of their homeland and something to
> > eat. Or perhaps the eucalyptus trudged with them, because there has to
> > be some way to get them to Australia too. Strangely, the problem of
> > plant survival is never considered. Nobody knows where that first olive
> > branch came from, unless olive trees can survive a year of immersion in
> > water and being buried under a mile of sediment, that is.
>
> Oh, sure, the koalas are *easy. What I want to know is, what did the
> lions eat?

They didn't eat meat. They lapped up milk from other mammals. -Dylan

> The prey species must have been having babies like crazy.
> What did the Tasmanian wolf eat while he was trotting alongside the
> koalas for this long trip?

The washed-up corpses of the wicked who perished in the flood. -Dylan

> As for the plants - meh. They're all the plant kind, so what does it
> matter?
>
> Kermit

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