When I was a kid ARCO sold a Scale Noahs Arc and all of the animals in pairs in scale . They all fit in the the boat. So it must be true.

\And Behold there came the great flood of Alfredo to destroy those who had taken up the false teachings of al dente! The truly faithful and his beloved animals of the land were embraced by his noodley appendage and were saved from the Creamy wrath and thus were able to carry on when the flood of Alfredo had Subsided.
RAMEN!

Glad to see so many others mention The Epic of Gilgamesh things:) Always nice to not be the only one to mention something.

Talahamut: I so hope I'm still alive when we find that our conciousness really is nothing more special than chemical reactions...

I believe Scientific American had a series of articles about conciousness a few months ago that come pretty close to saying just that. IIRC, self-awareness is a byproduct of problem solving, and because we experience everything through the lens of our conciousness, we cannot comprehend our own conciousness not existing, which gives rise to belief in an afterlife.

I'd dig up links, but I'm trying to be somewhat productive this afternoon. Shouldn't be too hard to find though.

The best part of the Noah story as told by fundies: They believe dinosaurs were on the Ark.

So not only did it need to be big enough to hold two elephants, two dogs, two cats, two rhinos, etc... It needed to be big enough and sturdy enough to hold two tyranosaurus rex, two velociraptors, two megasaurus, two apatasaurus, etc.

This ship had to have been the size of Delaware... The state, not the boat.

"We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat."

Lex Kitten: My personal favorite breed of crazy Christer- the dinosaur hunter. (new window)

Oh man..!

FTFL: Velociraptors: Today terrorize the goat herders of Puerto Rico and are rumored to guard the remains of the Ark on Mt. Ararat. They have become vicious since the Fall as the result of the effects of genetic entropy, making them too dangerous for the sort of interactive public experience we have in mind.

Yikes. Raptors guard the Ark. No wonder these expeditions all fail!

Suede head: So Noah and his sons must have travelled to every continent and crawled through the rain forest of South America collecting every one of millions of species of plants and beetles and animals and took them home and built a ship the size of a small aircraft carrier together with all the food and water and plants they would need to survive? Where's Bevets to explain how they did this?

According to Scripture, Noah's Ark was a safe haven for representatives of all the kinds of air-breathing land animals that God created. While it is possible that God made miraculous provisions for the daily care of these animals, it is not necessary-or required by Scripture-to appeal to miracles.

Exploring natural solutions for day-to-day operations does not discount God's role: the biblical account hints at plenty of miracles as written, such as God bringing the animals to the Ark (Genesis 6:20; 7:9, 15). It turns out that a study of existing, low-tech animal care methods answers trivial objections to the Ark. In fact, many solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems are rather straightforward.

How Did Noah Fit All the Animals on the Ark?

According to the Bible, the Ark had three decks (floors). It is not difficult to show that there was plenty of room for 16,000 animals (the maximum number of animals on the Ark, if the most liberal approach to counting animals is applied), assuming they required approximately the same floor space as animals in typical farm enclosures and laboratories. The vast majority of the creatures (birds, reptiles, and mammals) were small (the largest only a few hundred pounds of body weight). What's more, many could have been housed in groups, which would have further reduced the required space.

It is still necessary to take account of the floor spaces required by large animals, such as elephants and rhinos. But even these, collectively, do not require a large area because it is most likely that these animals were young, but not newborns. Even the largest dinosaurs were relatively small when only a few years old.

What Did the Dinosaurs Eat?

Dinosaurs could have eaten basically the same foods as the other animals. The large sauropods could have eaten compressed hay, other dried plant material, seeds and grains, and the like. Carnivorous dinosaurs-if any were meat-eaters before the Flood-could have eaten dried meat, reconstituted dried meat, or slaughtered animals. Giant tortoises would have been ideal to use as food in this regard. They were large and needed little food to be maintained themselves. There are also exotic sources of meat, such as fish that wrap themselves in dry cocoons.
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More fundie craziness:

The Americas have been home to what may be the largest and most spectacular flying beast that ever lived: the Thunderbird. Although many Indian reports of thunderbirds include details, like feathers, that are more avian than pterosaurian, this may be the result of natives -- who have long since forgotten Adam's true names for animals and are thus a bit confused about taxonomy -- conflating the rarely seen creatures with eagles and other more common large birds. In reality, the thunderbird was a pterodactyl of gigantic proportions and was probably covered in a fine, variously colored fur, which accounts for attributions of feathers and color patterns

Emphasis mine.

Those poor, confused Native Americans! They used their own names for animals because they FORGOT the REAL names given to them by Adam. Because all animals were really named by Adam. Really.

Hosebeatings: CDP:

How did the fish survive the flood?

Well, most fish didn't survive. In fact, if you'd been a diver in the oceans before the flood, and then you'd been saved on the Ark and had started diving again after the flood, you would've said something like, "What happened? Where's everything gone?" You see, most marine species were killed during the flood. Now certainly some fish did survive, and we see their descendants in the oceans today. Some people then ask a related question; "How did freshwater fish survive in the saltwater oceans?" There are two possibilities. First, there are many areas in the world today where we see freshwater and salt water together, and the two waters don't mix. So it's possible that certain organisms survived in pockets of fresh or salt water. Second, because of natural selection, which creationists accept, organisms today have become very specialized. Organisms at the time of the flood, however, would've been much stronger and able to tolerate many more changes than they can today. There's really no problem at all in answering this question.

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Loadmaster:
Hosebeatings: How did the fish survive the flood?

CDP: Well, most fish didn't survive.

How did the trees survive the flood?

Stems and seeds.