Noah’s
ark is a famous story from the Bible where God asked a man to build a gigantic boat
to house his family and two of every kind of animal to save them from a worldwide
flood. Scholars have debated the logistics
of such an undertaking for hundreds of years.
While the Bible goes into great detail about the dimensions of the boat,
it says absolutely nothing about the truly important questions. Like did Noah lock up the chickens in pens or
did he let them roam free? Cage or cage-free
eggs? Or would they be free-range? You see what I mean?!
Assuming that he let them out at least part of
the time in those forty days, then how did he keep the tigers from eating
them? I’m not sure what he had brought
to feed the tigers, but I’m sure after a few days of going vegetarian that
seeing that chicken strut by all cockily (pun intended) would be very tempting
to his natural instincts. Logistically,
I guess all of the animals could have been in pens, and Noah and his family could
have taken them out one-by-one to get exercise to reduce temptation. But I like to think that everyone was just
roaming free about the boat, and they just KNEW not to eat each other. I mean the God of the universe was running
the show, so I like to believe that he suppressed their natural instincts until
they’d had a chance to repopulate the Earth again.
