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He Dog
Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.
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  • nord
    God banned DDT.

    Really... It's that simple!
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  • rogue_rob
    I wonder why the termites didn't eat holes in the ark too
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  • cmd66
    Hey Rogue. Noah treated the wood. [:D]
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  • rogue_rob
    quote:Originally posted by cmd66
    Hey Rogue. Noah treated the wood. [:D]


    yeah he did lol. I wonder how the little bugs didn't get caught in the pitch though..... seems like it woulda been difficult to keep em out of it.

    What kind of pen did he hold the ants in??
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  • kyplumber
    what does h8iry think?
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  • MVP
    Problem could have been solved if he let the Ardvark into the chigger and tic cage.
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  • Slow_Hand
    Personally, I've always had a problem with the story of Noah and the ark. I think it may have happened in a simpler way and on a much smaller scale. No doubt as testimony to God's might, but it's inconceivable for one poor man to build a vessel of that size, scout out and round up two of every creature on earth, get them on board a wooden ark and keep them separated, fed, alive and well for years beforehand. Even though it supposedly rained for only 40 days and nights, this project would have required decades to accomplish. IMHO, I think the story is more literary license than fact. Just my 2 cents.
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  • Sav99
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.



    You would think that Noah, or his wife, or one of the other 6 people aboard would have swatted those pesky skeeters the very first day. [:D] Seriuosly I assume its the whole food chain thing.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I read a story on this subject once and the theory was that if this story were true it was in a time when the earth was only as big as far as a person could see, and was flat. They had no Idea of anything outside of their land as no one really traveled to explore. Being as it was a small part of the earth and relatively fewer animals being in a small region (if the story were true) one could by concept put the amount of animals within that region on a boat. I doubt there were lions and tigers, monkeys and elephants and such in that area. Maybe a few camels and dogs and donkeys. Many species of today were not around at that time and many species before that time had been extinct..Once upon a time in a land far away ETC ETC ETC
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  • renneck
    It did take him decades to accomplish and the water stayed on the earth a while after the flooding stopped. I would think that a bass boat would have been a lil more fun though.[8D][8D][8D]
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  • alledan
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.


    Some came with the animals
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  • spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.


    I can't answer for the ticks and chiggers, but at least some of the mosquitoes are needed to pollinate some of the orchids....mind you, there's no telling how the orchids survived months of flooding.
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  • Colt Super
    Allegorical.

    D.
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  • rolltide
    Not allegorical or exaggerated at all IMHO.



    quote:Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark?
    To remind man he is not so biggety I guess.



    quote:I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.
    HMMM???? Man outthinks God????? HMMM???? Interesting concept !!!!!!Isn't that how all the trouble started back in the garden in the first place which then ended up leading to the flood? I guess the really scary part is that man is still trying to do that today, and God promised fire not flood the next time.



    Just my 2 pesos

    Roll Tide
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  • p3skyking
    How did Noah get ahold of a platypus and then how did the platypus die out everywhere except Australia?

    The Waterworld myth has too many holes in it.
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  • dheffley
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.


    Because we would have been worshiping Moses instead of God![}:)][;)]
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  • mcaso
    Many of the Old Testament stories are allegorical. The early Catholic church, which began decades after the death of the apostles and their immediate followers, did not know this. Because of Paul the Hebrews considered the Jewish sect of Christians as heretics and so would not talk to the Christians about religion. So the Church had to assume what was meant. The protestant fundamentalist movement was started by those who had no religious knowledge. Those men aquired a copy of the Bible, which before Gutenburg was illegal to have, and assumed the Bible was literal. Because the fundamentalist beliefs were so out of line with reality, they were spit upon, beat up, burned out, tarred and feather and then run out of town on a fence rail. So they came to America where they could be left alone to practice their incorrect assumption. And that is the Christian philosophy that founded the colonies.
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  • Sav99
    quote:Originally posted by mcaso
    Many of the Old Testament stories are allegorical. The early Catholic church, which began decades after the death of the apostles and their immediate followers, did not know this. Because of Paul the Hebrews considered the Jewish sect of Christians as heretics and so would not talk to the Christians about religion. So the Church had to assume what was meant. The protestant fundamentalist movement was started by those who had no religious knowledge. Those men aquired a copy of the Bible, which before Gutenburg was illegal to have, and assumed the Bible was literal. Because the fundamentalist beliefs were so out of line with reality, they were spit upon, beat up, burned out, tarred and feather and then run out of town on a fence rail. So they came to America where they could be left alone to practice their incorrect assumption. And that is the Christian philosophy that founded the colonies.



    Thats an interesting take on history.
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  • rolltide
    quote:The Waterworld myth has too many holes in it.

    The man who quickly dismisses what lies beyond his own understanding will never know anything greater than himself.

    Best regards,
    Roll Tide
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  • tobefree
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.


    He probably decided to leave the dinosaurs behind instead!!!
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  • He Dog
    The dinos were extinct about 86,000,000 years before Noah, give aor take a week or two, but some of them would made the canoe a little crowded all right.
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  • ripley16
    quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
    Allegorical.

    D.


    What does Al Gore have to do with it? Did he invent the Ark too?
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  • big mango
    Ants on the ARK where housed in a Flinstone style ant farm made of Bedrock.

    YAB DABA DO !!!!
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  • Ramtinxxl
    Nevermind the ticks, chiggars [sic], and mosquitoes; a question of far greater importance and eternal significance is "What will YOU do with Jesus Christ?"
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  • Colt Super
    Very perceptive, Cricket. Al has been trying to conceal his involvement, in the interest of credibility.

    D.
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  • tobefree
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    The dinos were extinct about 86,000,000 years before Noah, give aor take a week or two, but some of them would made the canoe a little crowded all right.


    Hmm are you sure?.... I thought they all died in the flood?..... You been watching Discovery haven't you???
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  • FrancF
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.


    Ants must have been a real pain-[:D] cockroaches fended for them selves .
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Why did there have to be pairs of ticks, chiggars, and mosquitos on the Ark? I think Noah should have done just a little thinking for himself.


    I could add a few things to that list!!!
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  • He Dog
    Ants are no problem really, you just paint a fluon stripe around the top of the enclosure. Kinda of drys like teflon and their little Nikes just can't stick to it. In a pinch you can use vaseline, but they will build a road through it in about 2 days or a week depending upon how large the ants and the colony are.

    Enclosing mosquitos takes really fine nylon mesh, which was probably a little hard to come by in those days.
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