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14 Oct 2012, 3:50 pm

How many elephants there were on Noah's arc?

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14 Oct 2012, 3:56 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

How many elephants there were on Noah's arc?

Seven pair.

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14 Oct 2012, 4:02 pm

We including Yo Momma?

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14 Oct 2012, 4:17 pm

ruveyn wrote:

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

How many elephants there were on Noah's arc?

Seven pair.

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But the elephant is considered unclean, so it must be two.

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14 Oct 2012, 4:20 pm

Ok, the point of this thread:

Did Noah/God knew that the African Elephant, the African savanna elephants, the African forest elephants and the Asian elephants are three different species? They are different from each other as the lion is different from the tiger :lol:

According to the Torah, they were only two, so how comes? Lol

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14 Oct 2012, 4:20 pm

The Noah's ark fairytale in bunk no matter what way you look at it.

Even forgetting for a moment that the ship required would have been the greatest marine engineering accomplishment in history (and we're to believe it was built by a single man) the thought of putting animals like lions, tigers, buffalo and wilderbeast and expecting them not to eat each other is too fanciful to believe.

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14 Oct 2012, 4:23 pm

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I know, but this question is for the Jews/Christians, not atheists/agnostics.

I want to see the Jews/Christians' answers to this one.

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14 Oct 2012, 4:42 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

thomas81 wrote:

I know, but this question is for the Jews/Christians, not atheists/agnostics.

I want to see the Jews/Christians' answers to this one.

don't hold your breath.

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14 Oct 2012, 6:18 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

According to the Torah, they were only two, so how comes? Lol

Maybe Elephants were on probation and were clean for 40 days.

What about the millions of beetles though? You had to have millions of pairs for each species of beetle to be represented-even if beetles are considered "unclean".

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14 Oct 2012, 6:19 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

How many elephants there were on Noah's arc?

None.

Noah did not build an arc; he built an ark, instead.

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14 Oct 2012, 6:31 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

According to the Torah, they were only two, so how comes? Lol

Does the torah actually specify elephants?

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14 Oct 2012, 6:32 pm

There were (and are) actually a lot more than 3 different kinds of elephants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elephant_species

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14 Oct 2012, 6:55 pm

Elephants are f*****g awesome. I'm glad Noah saved them.

Anyway, this thread sent me to look up Eddie Izzard's Flood routine, so thanks.

"At this point, Noah realised he was actually punching a baboon...", evil ducks, etc.

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14 Oct 2012, 7:00 pm

Hopper wrote:

Elephants are f***ing awesome. I'm glad Noah saved them.

Anyway, this thread sent me to look up Eddie Izzard's Flood routine, so thanks.

"At this point, Noah realised he was actually punching a baboon...", evil ducks, etc.

Ricky Gervais nailed it even more, if you ask me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggQqUyLrCMhttp://[/youtube]

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14 Oct 2012, 7:22 pm

Hopper wrote:

(Sigh) But he forgot the mammoths.

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14 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm

It's possible that either it was a miracle, or what it was not meant to be read literally.

We may never know.

I do find it interesting in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a part of the story involves finding the man who survived the flood.

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