Noah's Ark.

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I have an inquiry about Noah?s ark, and was hoping someone could help.

God said 2 of each of the animal species in the world were to go on the Ark in order to preserve them against the coming Flood. Now, since there are roughly around 50 billion animal species in existence today, that means Noah gathered about 100 billion animals onto his Ark.

Genesis 6:15
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Back then, people used a measurement called cubits. A cubit translates into 1.5 feet. That means that Noah's Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet tall. Noah's Ark was also 3 stories tall, like a building.

Genesis 6:16
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

So, Noah's Ark had 101,205 square feet, or about 988,094 animals per square foot.

Now, I?m not sure what other?s think, but my own theory is that God used his miracle mojo to super-shrink all the animals and Moses in order to accommodate for the vast lack of space. Of course, there could be other explanations. Any thoughts?

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The Bible was not the originator of the story of Noah and the Great Flood.

In ancient Babylonia---and even more ancient Sumeria---the same story was recorded thousands of years before the Bible was written. The Babylonian poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, has ?Utnapishtim (the original Noah)? acting on the instructions of his god, Ea, and building an ark of "seven stories" with "nine chambers" in each story.

Utnapishtim then went into the ark with his sons, and his wife, and his wife's sons, before the waters of the flood. "All that I had, I caused to be put on board, the seed of many kinds of living creatures. I brought into the ship my family and all my kindred, herds and flocks of the fields, wild beast of the fields...."

The earlier Sumerian epic recorded that the god, Eki, warned the hero, ?Ziusudra (another form of Noah?, that the gods were angry with the people of the earth and were planning to destroy it in a flood. Ziusudra wisely began to build his ark. This tale is somewhat different from the Babylonian and Biblical accounts in that Eki did not warn Ziusudra directly. Since it was forbidden by the other gods for Eki to warn any mortal of the impending disaster, Eki bent the rules a little bit. He ordered Ziusudra to a nearby wall and spoke as the wall:

In the Middle Eastern versions of the story, the Ark was built near the ancient city of Shurrupak, located south of Babylon on the Euphrates River in what is now Iraq.

According to the Book of Genesis, "the ark rested...upon the mountains of Uratu," a mountain chain renamed Ararat in the 4th century A.D. This Ararat mountain chain is on the Iraqi border with Turkey. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the account is practically identical: "for a fifth day and a sixth day the mountain of Nisir held up the ship and did not let it waver."

Now this Gilgamesh character is mysterious creature.. half god and half human?he also had a beast like friend called Enlil?. And he also traveld in space.. 12000 years ago by gods.. and have a correct vision of earth as seen by astronauts..

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/<BR>
Something telling me.. the whole idea oh Noah?s ark was a giant spaceship with genetics material of every being on earth to survive the disaster caused by the comets like the one that hit the Jupiter some years ago (shoemaker comets) but the true story got truncated by some forces that wanted to hide the origin of human kind?.