Hi DJeggnog,
Since you have digressed from the OP topic of the discredited water canopy, to the possibility of the Flood and the Ark happening at all, I'll make no apology for responding to your points.
. . . out of an estimated 1,300,000 species, 60% of which being of the insect variety, Noah didn’t really need to make accommodation for as many pairs of animals as some might imagine, considering inbreeding among the different "kinds" of animals . .
Still these timesome long sentences. We non-genious lurkers strive for of brevity. Now when you say "inbreeding", do you mean "interbreeding"? So kinds are not really distinct? Heresy!! Also, what is the point of the 60% insects? Were they not on the Ark?
Noah was commanded not just to take pairs of unclean animals, but sevens of clean animals and birds, so not all of these sevens would survive the global deluge since Noah would be offering sacrifices for the duration of their "voyage" of deliverance
Noah offered sacrifices during the voyage? In the closed ark? In the pouring rain? Do give a Bible reference for this!
for once God closed the door to the ark, God could have quelled all dissent among the animal kingdom to their feeling a bit cooped up by putting them all into a state of hibernation for an extended period of time (like a year).
It doesn't say this in the Bible either, does it? Also a few months of hibernation leave animals scrawny and starving. What would a year of hibernation do? Or did the tigers and alligators "evidently" eat the manna or whatever God provided?
Not an idea; what I know is based upon what the Bible teaches as to the water canopy as its contents were responsible for the destruction of the ancient world in which Noah and those of his family survived the global deluge caused by the emptying out of that "watery deep
The water canopy is not Biblical, nor is it an interpretation unique to the Watchtower. It is a man-made interpretation discredited by an understanding of basic physics.
I am one of the few people that posted to this thread for the purpose of clarifying what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and teach about this water canopy, not so much for the benefit of the OP, but for the benefit of the lurkers
There may of course be some lurkers that are lulled by your posts into believing that there are rational answers to the problems raised by the water canopy "theory". It would help that they probably cannot read or understand these posts. Poor souls! Is that why you make them so long and confusing?
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