How many fish did Noah take on the ark?

BRY2K

There is two schools of literary thought on this Q. One is that Noah brought "ALL" specied of fish in the world. Sorry to be so vague. This conclusion is boldered by the following "evidence": Let us examine what the biblical text itself has to say on this subject. Genesis 6:19 reads: “And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female” (emp. added). The phrase “all flesh” has been interpreted on occasion to mean that God commanded Noah to take even water-living creatures on board the ark. What is the meaning—in the context—of the phrase “all flesh”? Another school (pardon the pun) of thought is to the contrary: God only provided the Ark for the protection of humans and land-dwelling, air-breathing creatures. A huge number of animals would not need to be taken aboard the Ark because they are water dwellers. According to Ernest Mayr, America's leading taxonomist, there are over 1 million species of animals in the world. The vast majority of these are capable of surviving in water and would not need to be brought aboard the ark. Noah need make no provision for the 21,000 species of fish or the 1,700 tunicates (marine chordates like sea squirts) found throughout the seas of the world, or the 600 echinoderms including star fish and sea urchins, or the 107,000 mollusks such as mussels, clams and oysters, or the 10,000 coelenterates like corals and sea anemones, jelly fish and hydroids or the 5,000 species of sponges, or the 30,000 protozoans, the microscopic single-celled creatures. http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/466 http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html Nov 02 09, 8:15 AM

merlin321

None Noah was told "all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died” This would exclude fish. http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/466 Nov 02 09, 8:17 AM

star_gazer

If he did take fish (sea creatures) on board the ark I would like to have seen him catching and storing the male and female great white sharks and the two blue whales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale Nov 02 09, 12:02 PM

davejacobs

Was the flood fresh water or sea water? Many creatures can live only in one and not the other. And as for the problem of wood worms and death watch beetles, not to mention termites...! Nov 02 09, 4:12 PM

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