How Did Noah Find All the Animals for the Ark?

Was every species on the ark? No! From chapters such as Leviticus 11, it is obvious that the created kind (min in Hebrew, in Genesis 1:11–12, 21, 24–25) was a much broader category than the modern term of classification, species. Current baraminological research suggests that the created kind most closely corresponded to the family level in current taxonomy. However, to be conservative in this study, the genus was set as equivalent to the original created kind. As for the clean animals that entered the ark in seven pairs, this added a modest number of additional animals, notably bovids (cow-like mammals) and cervids (deer-like mammals). Under these conservative assumptions, there were no more than 16,000 land animals and birds on the ark.

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[DannyGmusicc]

I have some questions
1: what did the animals eat after they left the ark?
The meat eaters would surely hunt the only other living prey, that would have to of been on board .
2: What did the herbivores eat? No crops, every thing damage by the flood would take a long time to replenish the earth
3: where did the flood water go?
4: where did they fine fresh water?
My thoughts it is just impossible to get 2 of each kind on board and live for one year with food and provisions let alone getting dinosaurs onboard too

[stephentoons]

I don't understand how he didn't need insects on the ark. No flying insect can stay flying for a year. Also crawling insects and bugs would drown.

[s.f.morris]

how did elephants repopulate? their birth cycle is almost 2 years. they have one baby at a time. this is crazy. and all these animals were on their best behavior? no killing? none of them died? they all knew they were responsible to repopulate once the ship rested on land then had to wait for all the water to go away then had to wait for all the plants to re grow what were the animals eating after the boat landed cause im sure they ran out of food. what did Noah and his family eat? leaves? sticks? if they were eating meat? did they just collect a bunch of fruit before the flood. I cant wrap my brain around how this is even slightly believable on any level.

[RobertSmith-gxmi]

The animals were probably collected similarly to how santa gets all those presents to all those children in one night.
Don't know if after the flood they were returned to their geographical homes as quickly but I guess it's a possibility.
But who stuck around and make sure the two of each kind of animal procreated enough to repopulate their numbers?

[grizzkid]

This is very interesting. I learned that Noah put dinosaurs on the ark. I learned that only two of each family of animals was put in the ark, so that would mean if he put a couple of house cats in the ark, then through evolutionary processes those cat's offspring would evolve into lions, tigers, cheetahs, mountain lions, etc. It is amazing that evolution, which surprisingly many Christians don't believe in, happened in just a few thousand years. Gosh, if he used humans to cover the Hominidae Family, then that means apes evolved from Noah's family, which is pretty cool! Thank you for this information!

[PortmanRd]

No Australia? That's weird because the Australian Antarctic Programme would beg to differ, and I quote:
"Australia began to separate from Antarctica 85 million years ago.

Australia completely separated from Antarctica 30 million years ago."

Bit of a discrepancy on your part.

[paulhaynes]

He waved his magic wand ABRACADABRA utter deluded nonsense

[benjaminavick]

no ark .And if everything was so magical why would there be need for a ark just suspend everything in the air until the flood was over

[throckmortensnivel]

No Australia 4500 years ago? Really? And you wonder why no one takes you seriously? I suppose South American didn't exist either, because if those animals were going to get to the MIddle East, they would have to swim or fly. So, if South America didn't exist, neither did North America.

[huejanus]

Seems like a lot of wasted time, effort and resources to me. If you're God why wouldn't you just wait till after the flood and then just recreate the animals. That's what I would do. Work smarter not harder.

[markmerry]

Simple he never as
As there was never an Ark 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭