Insects on Noah's Ark

Question: 

How did Colony Insects reproduce after Noah’s flood if there were only 2?  Some insects cannot successfully reproduce with just 1 male and 1 female of their species. For example, bees need a queen to lay the eggs, a male drone to fertilize & take care of the eggs, and a sterile female worker to gather food for everyone. However, the story of Noah's ark only allows for 2 of every kind of living being on the ark. Some accounts allow for 7 clean beings, but swarming insects are counted as unclean. How could colony insects such as bees & ants have successfully reproduced with only 2 representatives? Wouldn't they have either starved or have had no one to care for the young? Thanks for your thoughts!

 

My Reply:

Lol, I often wish Noah would've left the insects off the ark, at least the blood-sucking ones.

Read Genesis 7:1-10 again...the 2 of every kind were the UNclean ones. But there were 7 pairs of CLEAN animals of every kind. Granted the clean ones were to be used as food & sacrifices, I'm sure they waited until they got off the wooden boat to make burnt offerings to the Lord. So there were actually 8 pairs of each land animal/creature on the ark, definitely enough for later reproduction.

As for the insects, I have 2 theories. 1) You have to remember, God made everything that exists from the ground. Therefore, I have no doubt that God could have created more, even with only 2 or 9 of each type of insect; 2) Maybe God made an exception when it came to the ones like you mentioned. 

I also wonder when it comes to the blood-sucking insects, if maybe Noah brought extras along with them?  I mean, can you imagine a mosquito biting his arm, SMACK! “Oops!”  J

---Pastor Andy

Did Dinosaurs Co-Exist With Humans?

Question: I was raised Catholic and still believe in God, but I’m confused about a lot of things, like did we co exist with dinosaurs? If the earth is only 6000 years old then dinosaurs could not have existed right.... if they are billions of years old…

My Reply:

Hi, first of all, you know about the Gospel...does the existence of dinosaurs really matter in terms of your salvation and relationship with God?
2nd, dinosaurs co-exist with us today (gators, whales, sharks, squid, etc.). Remember, Noah took land animals on the ark...those in the water didn't need to be saved from the flood, so they remained.

Job mentioned a dinosaur that can't be pointed out today (described like a fire-breathing hippo/crock).  And when it came to extinction, didn't the whole endangered species control-thing begin in the 1900s? So who's to say they didn't exist at the time of humans? Who's to say they didn't exist in the Garden of Eden?
And as for the 9000-10000 year old earth, from all the things you've seen God do in no time at all, who's to say it's not possible? But then, who's also to say that Adam and Eve weren't in the garden for several million/billion years before taking a bite of the fruit?  "Answers in Genesis" has some neat information (both facts and theories) on Dinosaurs, as well as some takes on why we don't find fossilized human bones with them.
 
Bottom line, a lot of this stuff is just theory...it's fun to ponder and discuss, but technically speaking, it has nothing to do with our future in Christ Jesus. Remember, the Good News is our message...everything else is just (as the Apostle Paul called it), "Meaningless talk".

---Pastor Andy

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