If there were only two of each animal, what did the carnivores eat after the boat landed. How big would the boat have to be to load every animal species on the planet? Two times.
They ate Unicorn.
In seriousness, what the animals ate on the ark isn’t specified.
There weren’t only two of each animal. There were seven of each “clean” animal and two each of every “unclean” animal.
I suppose for the first few days they could have collected the floating bodies of the sinful.
My understanding is that there was 2 of each carnivore and 7 of each herbivore. It doesn’t say how many exited, but I would assume 2 of each.
Food was teleported down from the Federation starship Voyager, , on detached duty from Starfleet for the occasion. For the most part the mission was successful; unfortunately Neelix was put in charge of the dinosaurs’ rations, which is why they went extinct so quickly.
You’re missing the meaning! The point of the story is to demonstrate God’s mercy by sparing only known good people in all the world.
Wouldn’t that be in violation of the Prime Dir…
Oh wait. Voyager. Never mind.
Goddamn it, you’re SUCH a joke-tease, Revenant. First you take the bait I dangle, then you tromp on my punch line. I’m tempted to rescind my offer to make you grand vizier of Earth when I am god-king.
Here’s the relevant passage:
Sorry, your Excellence. What was your punchline?
Lissa, that’s interesting. The phrasing of that seems to suggest the taking of pairs, but specifically says seven. Could it be it meant seven males and seven females? And then two males and two females of the unclean animals and birds with flight?
You are aware that the story is total fiction and could never have happened, for a large number of reasons, aren’t you? So you are merely asking for hypothetical purposes, right?
Let’s clear this up at the start.
Well based on the assumption that God can perform any kind of magic at will, maybe he made it so no one needed to eat. Then promptly changed everything back when they landed.
And has been doing so every thirty seconds since then.
That’s funny. I thought the point was to show how mean and spiteful God can get when he is pissed and gets drunk. Mercy, mercy, me!
How many termites were taken aboard? Two doesn’t seem like enough.
HEY! Who are you to question God’s wisdom? The Father Knows Best! If he said you take two, that’s what you need!
If God was going to wave around his magic wand, he really should have just made all the wicked people drop dead, so the animals wouldn’t even need to be saved.
If the OP is serious, the answer is that the writers of the Noah story didn’t really intend it to be analyzed by their audience beyond “Hey! We better obey the priesthood and not piss off God!”.
OK, so there were two termites, and also a pair of Aardvarks. the Aardvarks were really hungry (they had been aboard longer than nearly everyone else because of that whole ‘boarding will be conducted in strict alphabetical order’ thing) - The worried Termites looked anxiously at the hungry Aardvarks. The ravenous Aardvarks gazed longingly at the juicy, frightened Termites…
Meanwhile, the short-lived fig-wasps were looking for a place to lay their eggs…
But if there were now 7 of each clean animal then the boat would have to have been bigger. What did they drink? How did the Kangaroos hop from Australia to the middle east then back again after the trip? How did the two Gazzelles survive that first year on land? What did the Lions, Jaguars, Cougers, Hyenas, Cheetas, etc…eat for the first year? Or even years?