Yep, I never heard
him use profanity------EVER.
A couple of us were
invited to lunch, which in my case never happened before Covid
because I never got baptized.
But now Iām being
invited by most of my jw family to family cookouts. And we never talk about Kingdom stuff. They always ask questions about politics.
But this time, Somehow the
conversation about Noah got started. And my Uncle asked me if I ever
wondered how Noah got the elephants into the ark?
Not thinking--- I
jokingly said; āForget that, how did Noah fit 64 million animals
into a wooden Ark that was only 1,400,000ā1,500,0000 Cubic feet?
My Uncle gives me
this strange look;
I knew I had blown
it. I guess the shunning was back in place.
But to my Surprise
my Uncle asks; āWhat do you mean?ā
My other relatives
also asked, what exactly I mean by 64 million animals?
I told them that
they have counted about 8 million different species.
Who Counted them,
they ask?
I said; āTheyāve
been counting different species for a while. There are so many that
the number keeps increasing every few years.
So we went inside
and turned on the computer. We looked at the Insight Book and it told
us how big the ark was. We compared with what other articles like
this one said, and I was vindicated.
https://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/was-noah-ark-big-enough-to-hold-all-animals.html
Every one of my jw
relatives thought Noah only took two of each kind of animal. So the
were trying to Mathematically squeeze 8 million animals into an ark
that was only 1.5 million cubic feet. Which was kind of funny.
But I pointed out
that it was more than 8 million animals that went into the ark.
HUH!
So we looked up the
Genesis account and it is said that;
Noah was told to
take in 7 pairs of Clean animals and 1 pair of Unclean.
Whatās interesting
is all of them thought it was 2 of each animals. Raised in the WT
organization and they never noticed that it was 7 pairs of Clean
animals which makes a huge difference if you have 8 million different
species.
But Give or take 1.3
million----- There is actually more, they just havenāt counted them.
So for simplicity
say Half Clean and Half Unclean and according to this article about 8
million different species. (I know there is other estimates)
https://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/how-many-species-on-earth
I didn't bring up salt water animals in the oceans and Fresh water animals in the lakes or plants that needed to be brought in because most would die under water for a year. That would just be too much for them!
So we started doing math.
4 million x 7pairs
equals 56 million individual animals
4 million x 1 pair
equals 8 million individual animals
Total equals 64
million individual animals Noah had to squeeze into the ark, that was
only 1.5 million cubic feet, within 7 days.
About 9 million plus
animals A DAY that Noah and his family had to squeeze into ark
About 6 thousand
plus animals A MINUTE--NON-STOP- that Noah and his family had to squeeze into
the ark
If I did my math
correctly.
Doesnāt include
all the food FOR 64 MILLION ANIMALS FOR A ENTIRE YEAR with no refrigerator to keep the
vegetation from spoiling.
One of my Aunts saw the impossibility and said;
āBut Jesus reference the Floodā
Everyone kept quiet,
scratching their head.
Finally my Uncle
speaks out and says;
Weāre Fucked!
Everyone starts
going-------OH MY GOD----OH MY GOD----- YOU SAID A BAD WORD!
