Many scoffers of the Genesis Flood state that it would have been impossible for the eight 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. -
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 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. -
Food could have been loaded into the chute on the side and the animals could feed themselves. Enough food could have been loaded into the chute to last the duration of the flood. -
Water could be piped to self-filling bowl or 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. An eight person crew could have fairly easily cared for thousands of animals. Data from animal husbandry studies have shown that they would even have had time to keep the Bible Sabbath. |
