Insects on the ark?

keyser soze

Some people in my brother's and sister-in-law's cong are putting on a play about Noah's ark, and want all the children in the hall to participate, including my nieces and nephew.

They're really going all out with this, costumes, face paint, etc. I see a Tony award in the future! My six-year-old niece is playing the dove, my three-year-old nephew is playing a tiger, and my five-year-old niece is playing a bee.

Normally, I remain silent when they are discussing their absurd beliefs. I don't want to rock the boat, seeing as they are the only family members with whom I still have a relationship. But upon hearing this I felt the need to debate with my SIL about the credibility of such a thing. As if the whole flood story weren't ludicrous enough when it involved only animals. Now I'm to believe that, along with collecting two of every species of animal, and building an ark big enough to house them all, God then had Noah out in the field scooping up insects. Is it me, or would there have to have been a more efficient way for God to destroy humanity, one that didn't involve putting such an enormous burden on an elderly man?

Clam

Good point Keyser. I always used to wonder why Jehovah had to make such a bloody mess when sorting out the wheat from the chaff.

A flood not only sounds like overkill but why didn't other people who had boats also survive?

It's the same with Armageddon. Jehovah trashes everything back into the stone age and the birds and surviving Dubs have to clear it all up. You'd think a creator of this skill and magnitude would have somthing a bit more efficient up his sleeve. JCanon was saying recently that at the big A the damned will walk into the open in a trance and be killed, thus making everything a bit tidier. Goes to show that he's got more imagination than his god.

As for insects, well half of all described species are insects. In fact there are over 300,000 known beetle types. No doubt they were all on the Ark, although I bet he didn't let any wood termites on.

journey-on

Wow! Doing something fun for the kids? Now THAT'S a new concept!

I was always told that water animals and insects did not need to be brought into the ark. They were able

to survive through the flood.

My inner "jury" is still out on the whole flood thing. There's an awful lot of scientific evidence to substantiate

a great flood (although not world wide). Noah and his ark, however, is a little farfetched, but as with all myths

there's a little truth hidden somewhere there and a lesson to learn in the STORY.

sweetstuff

LOL, how much you wanna bet they'll all get counselled for putting on this "play"? That's the really amusing part!

tula

In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.