Perhaps God used their migratory instincts to get them to the Ark.
LMAO! That is FARMS worthy..
God has the right to create and to destroy, to make like and to kill. He can delegate this authority if he wishes to. I know that can be scary. Deal with it. Nehor.. Nov 08, 2010
Even though I am a very strong believer in the Lord God, and I am also a very strong believer in life after death , I do tend to believe in a lot more to the Second Web Site Page, that I gave a Hyper-Link to. I do Not believe that the Flood of Noah was literally worldwide.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Make it a limited flood and assume Noah was just taking critical livestock to rebuild herds after the flood and it gets much easier.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
The Nehor wrote:Make it a limited flood and assume Noah was just taking critical livestock to rebuild herds after the flood and it gets much easier.
Well, that certainly explains the lack of unicorns and phoenixes in today's world.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
The Nehor wrote:Make it a limited flood and assume Noah was just taking critical livestock to rebuild herds after the flood and it gets much easier.
Why not go all the way and call it what it is?
Okay, an old story based on real events subjected to hyperbole and people with religious devotion magnifying the event as it went through multiple hands. The thing is....the suckers forgot to take out the part about the birds.....thus showing that even Noah himself didn't know where he was or IF there was land out there.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
"Make it a limited flood and assume Noah was just taking critical livestock to rebuild herds after the flood and it gets much easier."
Trouble is, that is not what the Scriptures say.
Add in the reality that in Noahs day there were many more animal species alive than we have now and you have an even bigger crowd in the boat.
As for the waterborne animals and mammals, many can't live in water either too fresh or too saline. The great dilution that would come with a universal flood would change the salinity everywhere.
Insects are not all tiny things. Some have pretty good size to them.
All in all it makes for an interesting problem. Even with Angels magically shovelling elephant poop you have a really big bunch of animals to be taken care of.
Still doesn't account for how the specialized animals got to places other than where Noah landed while completely disappearing from where he landed. Koalas just don't appear in Israel, Iraq or anywhere near the region. No ancient signs of Panda bears in the region is there? (I don't know)
I do know that no wallaby, platypus, kangaroo or Kiwi remains have been found in Israel and surrounding areas.
Too bad Joseph Smith isn't here to tell us what really happened? Like nomadic siberian herders showed up and drove the animals to other lands while remaining separate from the Nephites and Lamanites and after the Nephited died off these nomadic Siberian herders captured all the horses and took them to Genghis Khan? Or sold them to the Vietnamese?