Animals hibernated on the Ark (Talk.Origins)

Claim CH513:


 * The care and feeding of animals aboard the ark could be significantly lessened by animals hibernating or otherwise staying dormant for much of the voyage.

Source: Whitcomb, John C. Jr. and Henry Morris, 1961. The Genesis Flood. Philadelphia: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publish Co., p. 71.

CreationWiki response:

First of all John Woodmorappe refutes all of these objections to animal dormancy and more in his book, Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study. He excluded it from his calculations as part of his effort to err on the side of making it harder for the Ark to be feasible and because of the difficulty in estimating its effects.

Furthermore as is typical, Talk.Origins is ignoring God. Whitcomb and Morris indicate that God could have caused the animal dormancy during the Flood, suggesting that this could be its origin. It is quite possible that God could have induced dormancy during the Flood, if it were needed for the animals to survive, even among non hibernating animals. In such a case Talk Origins arguments would be irrelevant.