Biblical Flood / Noah's Ark: The Animals Manifest

[Jim]

"Tell me again why you think it's necessary to have an aquarium deck? And these pleisiosaur things... they appear to be taking up a lot of space. You know, I can't help thinking of the little issues raised by setting aside space on the Ark for aquatic and deep-sea species. Things that normally live seventy thousand feet down at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, for instance, might not be especially distubed or inconveneinced by a global flood? Still, you know best, I suppose."

Pls research sauropods: No not aquatic life forms? Gigantic land dwelling herbivores.
https://www.britannica.com/list/titanosaurs-8-of-the-worlds-biggest-dinosaurs
https://www.livescience.com/34278-worlds-largest-dinosaur.html

 

[Analogue Boy]

They must have interbred with the ordinary people (who never get mentioned at all in the flood story).

Or there’s a mistranslation of months for years.

 

[Analogue Boy]

Wow. The Mayflies were lucky.

 

[INT21]

Or there’s a mistranslation of months for years.

Apparently no mistranslation.

But it is a useful device if you need to pad out a story by a few millennia. Just have your characters near immortal.

 

[Analogue Boy]

1000 /12=83. Feasible ripe old age.

 

[AgProv]

Ah, so there is a difference and sauropods were a specific sort of dinosaur, not just a catch-all term for all and every dinosaur, including the seagoing sort?

 

[EnolaGaia]

Ah, so there is a difference and sauropods were a specific sort of dinosaur, not just a catch-all term for all and every dinosaur, including the seagoing sort?

Yes. Sauropods are the huge land-dwelling dinosaurs of the classic Brontosaurus variety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropoda

 

[AgProv]

got it now - I'll try to be better informed when I next talk about dinosaurs! getting the vocabulary right always helps.

 

[skinny]

bump

Anybody see Aranofsky's 2014 film with Rusty Crowe? I've seen it numerous times and really enjoy it on many levels. Obviously Noah is as mythological as Moses, Adam and the rest, but how biblically accurate is the film? I detect gnostic leanings.

1000 /12=83. Feasible ripe old age.

That's dog years.

 

[skinny]

One scholar who sees the above in the below. Interesting read. And he didn't even like the film.
http://drbrianmattson.com/journal/2014/3/31/sympathy-for-the-devil