Noah's flood: What happened to all the other people who knew how to make boats? [Spirituality & Religion]
Like none of them managed to float on a boat with supplies? Seems like it'd be a lot easier for a couple or a family to survive with 40 days of supplies if you weren't filling your boat with all the animals.
What do you reckon?
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For one thing they weren't expecting a flood. Even if a few people had a boat and managed to get into it when the flood waters began to rise, the boat would have sank during the intense rain (can't bail water that fast). Noah took a lot more than 40 days of supplies. Noah and family were in the ark for 150 days - that's 5 months. What person keeps 5 months of supplies on their boat at all times "just in case"?
Yeah but seriously. NO ONE else in the world managed to put a tarp over the boat or salvage enough food or continue to fish and collect the rain water. No one else on the planet? Seems unlikely.
People are very [i]good[/i] at surviving. Hell, even animals can raft over oceans on pieces of scrap.
@shuhak the *thousands of fishermen that had boats wouldn't need to take food, they could live off fish.
*I'm not saying all fishermen had boats, obviously most didn't and of the communities on the planet today that live entirely off meat, the meat is mostly fish, the amount of rain needed would sufficiently desalinate the water to make it drinkable or they could collect rain water.
