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Analysis Of Henry Morris The Biblical Basis For Modern Science

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The author of “The Biblical Basis for Modern Science", a creationist text, is Henry Morris, states that "The ark was to be essentially a huge box designed essentially for stability in the waters of the Flood rather than for movement through the waters… taller than a normal three-story building and about one and a half times as long as a football field. The total volumetric capacity was equal to 1,396,000 cubic feet... equivalent to 522 standard railroad stock cars, far more than enough space to carry two of every known kind of animal, living or extinct." The flaws in Morris's calculations become apparent when you consider that, according to many creationists, Noah's Ark included hundreds of dinosaurs. That would mean, for example, the brachiosaurus (two of them, of course), each of which weighed about 50 tons and reached 85 feet long. Even if two representatives all of Earth's animals could somehow fit on the ark, enough space would be needed for drinking water and food for an entire year. …show more content…

Resulting, in some cases, in fourteen of many animals. There simply would not be nearly enough space for all of them. There's also the problem of collecting all those animals in the first place.
How would koala bears from Australia, llamas from South America and penguins from Antarctica have managed the trip to the ark's location in the Middle East? "And how would their human caretakers have looked after this vast menagerie of animals? Noah, his wife, and his three sons and their wives (that's only eight people) providing food and water to the animals would have been an impossible task. What (or who) would the carnivores, living in close quarters with all those delicious herbivores, have

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