Many scoffers of the Genesis Flood state that it would have been impossible for the 8-person crew of the Ark to have cared for all the animals. In reality most of the animals would have required very little if any care once loaded onto
the ark. The ark undoubtedly made use of self-cleaning, self-feeding, and self-watering technologies. This is a 1/12-scale model of the type of system that the Ark designers could have built.
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It uses a mesh type cage floor and slanted waste system, which moves animal wastes into a gutter. Once in the gutter the manure could have been allowed to either dry (becoming odorless and inert), or be vermi-composted by earthworms and bacteria, or it could
have been dumped overboard by means of a slanted trough leading to the exterior. None of the waste would require human handling.
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Food could have been loaded into the chute on the side and the animals could self feed. Enough food could have been loaded into the chute to last the duration of the flood.
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Water could be piped to self-filling bowl/troughs. The water could be gathered through a rainwater cistern system or could have been pre-loaded before the flood. People of Noah's time commonly made indoor pipes from reeds, clay, and bamboo
tubing.
It is evident, when all the facts are considered, that the crew of the Ark could easily have cared for thousands of animals. Data from animal husbandry studies have shown that they would even have had time to keep the Sabbath.
Arnold Mendez presents seminars on the subject of the Genesis Flood and Early Man. He has studied the Genesis account and the creation versus evolution controversy for the last 25 years. He is a chemistry instructor at Texas
A&M University in Corpus Christi and has both a Master and Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (minor Chemistry). His Noah's Ark & Early Man Seminars web site has more details about the flood, early man, evolution, creation,
radiometric dating, biblical longevity and various other topics.
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