ock posts:
I wonder if Noah took a pair of every kind of fish onto the Ark. It isn't mentioned, and it would be pretty silly since the point of the ark was to save life from water, but fish aren't really scared of water.
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4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
kfc posts:
"The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher and the mountains were covered. All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky and they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah was left together with those that were with him in the ark."
So what kind of intellect doesn't read something in full context? Your fish question is answered here as well.
It's funny what and how you look at things Ock.
Your question is answered here.
From Gen. 7:14-15, 21-23, we know that only the land dwelling, air breathing animals and birds were on the Ark.
And while there is no doubt (becasue we have found their fossils) that some fish and other sea creatures died as a result of the breaking up of the fountains of the deep causing great volcanic action, etc. However, God did not destroy all the fish or all other creatures of the sea. It says in plain English...that He destroyed every living substance from off the face of the earth. The "face of the earth" is not what is in the seas.
ock posts 224
4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
.....If we're going to be literal, it says "every living substance." Olive trees are a living substance. Just more along the Hoaxes line.
Good point about the olive trees Ock. You must be referring to the olive leaf brought back to Noe by the dove. Gen. 8:11.
There are a few plausible answers. Some of the olive trees and their limbs could easily have been floating in the water and while part was submerged under water, part of it could have been above it so that the dove probably picked a leaf off from that.
Many terrestial seeds of plants can survive long periods of soaking and some indeed are better off for the soaking as they germinate faster. Some plants could have survived in floating vegetation masses and even broken off pieces of plants are capable of sprouting.
Many seeds have devices for attaching themselves to various things that floated as well as animals and some could have survived the Flood by this means. Others could have survived in the stomachs of bloated, floating carcasses of dead herbivores.
At the end of 150 days the waters receded and these seeds could have easily taken root, including the little olive tree.
