Did Noah intentionally save the rats or did they just stow away on the ark?

Noah's Ark: A biblical story with moral underpinnings, but lacks actual evidence for its occurrence; both the Ark and a World Wide flood. From a scientific perspective and our knowledge about how nature works, a critical analysis of the story is shown at: http://ncse.com/cej/4/1/impossible-voyage-noahs-ar... After you read this analysis, you will see why the story fails the evidence test, not just on one aspect of the story, but on hundreds of logistical and factual inconsistencies with present day workings of nature. It's one thing to have a belief that God Did It, it's another to twist reality and ignore the evidence from biology, geology, demography, and even the science and physics of ship building (that is covered in the article) that makes the story impossible.

Although repeated endlessly by Creationists, about the evidence for a world-wide flood, there is no evidence. Read: http://www.chem.tufts.edu/science/franksteiger/eld... Nor as an integral part of the myth is the earth only 6,000 years old http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_against_a_re...

In addition, Creationists will tell you the 8 people on the Ark had enough time in only a few thousand years to repopulate the earth and contribute to the genetic diversity of present day human populations. A careful analysis of that assumption from the perspective of molecular biology, population genetics, and demography (human populations over time) shows how improbable and impossible is that scenario. http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/2009_...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_flood#Re-popul...

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/may04...

Humans evolved over 200,000 years ago in Africa, and that we do have evidence for.

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence and mitochondrial DNA shows the migration patterns of humans out of Africa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_D...

I'd love to know how Noah got all the animals in Australia and the Americans to the Middle East to put them on this ark. You don't even have to poke holes in some of this nonsense- the text does it for you.

What's wrong with rats?

You have to ask yourself, did he intentionally save HIV or Syphilis?

One of the eight humans aboard must have been carrying a lot of infections.

That is an allegorical story about saving the entire race of humans, unfortunately rats included.

yes he intentionally saved the rats

He saved the rats,

and a coupe lazy cats.

Noah is part of a fairytale, So WHO cares....

i think he was told to because God wanted them to spread plagues in the future

No God wanted them to be there too -- so poof there they are

LOL