510. Questions About the Ark

How was the ark kept clean? We know how it was ventilated; but what

was done with the filth? How were the animals watered? How were some

portions of the ark heated for animals from the tropics, and others

kept cool for the polar bears? How did the animals get back to their

respective countries? Some had to creep back about six thousand miles,

and they could only go a few feet a day. Some of the creeping things

must have started for the ark just as soon as they were made, and kept

up a steady jog for sixteen hundred years. Think of a couple of the

slowest snails leaving a point opposite the ark and starting for the

plains of Shinar, a distance of twelve thousand miles. Going at the rate

rate of a mile a month, it would take them a thousand years. How did

they get there? Polar bears must have gone several thousand miles, and

so sudden a change in climate must have been exceedingly trying upon

their health. How did they know the way to go? Of course, all the polar

bears did not go. Only two were required. Who selected these?

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