Ronnie, how much experience would most people in ancient Israel have had with the sea? The nation bordered on the Mediterranean so fishermen would have been out on the sea, but even they would have little knowledge of life below the surface.

They would have seen the fins of sharks and an occasional dolphin or whale but the undersea world was a total mystery. Look at all the myths that other cultures (especially the Greeks and Romans) had about exotic sea monsters.

Leviathon was likely a composite name given to sightings of variaous large fish and aquatic mammals that they didn't understand very well at all.

Leviathon was likely a composite name given to sightings of variaous large fish and aquatic mammals that they didn't understand very well at all.

Noah was instructed to take two of every kind of animal. Not two of every kind of the various species of animals and the like. Just two cats, two birds, two horses, etc.

If he didn't take two of every species, then wouldn't that be proof that animals can evolve into different species after he released them?

The story of Noah saving all land animals on the ark is one of the most patently ridiculous things in the Bible. The fact that some believe this fairy tale included dinosaurs just makes it all the more laughable.

First to Ghoti who still see's man as then originator of the bible..uh uh,.,God wrote the bible and I think He knew what He was talking about even though the writers man not have had a clue at the time they wrote. They wrote as the spirit of God moved them.

Some years ago, the story came to us in Toronto about a man who was in the merchant marine and made his living on the sea. A Muslim gave him a translation of the Qur'an to read. The merchant marine knew nothing about the history of Islam but was interested in reading the Qur'an. When he finished reading it, he brought it back to the Muslim and asked, "This Muhammed, was he a sailor?" He was impressed at how accurately the Qur'an describes a storm on a sea. When he was told, "No as a matter of fact, Muhammed lived in the desert," that was enough for him. He embraced Islam on the spot. He was so impressed with the Qur'an's description because he had been in a storm on the sea, and he knew that whoever had written that description had also been in a storm on the sea. The description of "a wave, over it a wave, over it clouds" was not what someone imagining a storm on a sea to be like would have written; rather, it was written by someone who knew what a storm on the sea was like. This is one example of how the Qur'an is not tied to a certain place and time. Certainly, the scientific ideas expressed in it also do not seem to originate from the desert fourteen centuries ago. source