How did Noah fit millions of animals into the Ark?
There were not millions of animals, but only a few thousand. Genesis 7:22 indicates that Noah only had to bring land animals that breathed through nostrils. This eliminates water living mammals, fish, insects, etc. He also only brought a pair of each kind of animal. For instance a pair of dogs would have sufficed to repopulate all 300 or so types of dogs found today as they “bring forth after their kind” (Genesis 7:14-15).
Where did the flood water come from and go to?
According to the Bible (Genesis 7:11), most of the water came from under the surface of the earth and “the windows of heaven” rained down to add to the deluge. Toward the end of the flood the unstable plates, over the now empty fountains, collapsed. This caused today’s ocean basins to form (Psalm 104:8) and the waters to flow into these basins (Genesis 8:2-3). For a global flood theory that answers dozens of questions which evolutionists can’t viably explain
How did Noah collect all those animals?
Noah didn’t have to collect any animals. God had the animals come to him. (God probably wanted Noah and his family to keep working on the ark.) See Genesis 6:20.
Did it rain before the flood?
My understanding, or interpretation, is that the pre-flood world had a great underground watering system (Genesis 2:6) and rain was not needed until after the flood (Genesis 2:5). But the Bible doesn’t specifically say. For scientifically based theories on the pre-flood world and the global flood,
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