Please try again later. The American Medical Association classifies obesity as a disease, overriding committees' recommendations that better measurement metrics and research are needed. Editor's Note: This article has been edited from its original version to reflect the American Medical Association's vote on Tuesday.
The LORD told Noah and his family to go into the ark. They were to take seven of every kind of clean animal and a pair of every kind of unclean animal. T he LORD then said to Noah, Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Skeptics paint a picture of Noah going to countries remote from the Middle East to gather animals such as kangaroos and koalas from Australia, and kiwis from New Zealand. However, the Bible states that the animals came to Noah; he did not have to round them up (Genesis 6:20). God apparently caused the animals to come to Noah. The Bible does not state how this was done. We also do not know what the geography of the world was like before the flood. If there was only one continent at that time, then questions of getting animals from remote regions to the ark are not relevant.