actually there is a deleted scene where his youngest kid prays for an animal of every kind as a pet so that's the explanation
I also think you missed the meaning of the whole film. It's not about god, It's about Evan and his family. The building of the ship was just a means for the family and their hood to fulfill the unraveling answers to their "prayers" or desires by themselves.
It's about him wanting to change the world and he learned how to do that through one act random kindness at a time, his wife wanting to bring the family closer together and she learned to do that through being more accepting/trusting/completely believing in her husband and themselves as a unit, the kid learned he can love all animals but only needs one (llama in this case) as a pet, Fred Flinstone in the reversed role of Cliff Vandercave realised that consequences catch up with your actions etc etc
god shows up for the right people at the right time but only to help them along with their own intuition and self fulfilling goals.
"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other? "
Yes, you have to suspend belief in certain areas such as his hair growing or the animals managing to get in pairs and come from wherever or why it actually does rain momentarily in the middle of a drought on that day or how the ark managed to finish in exactly the right position to stop the bill. But even this question is sort of answered, god at the end explains that he "may" have given them "a little shove". Its up to YOU to believe that god actually did it or it was just a coincidence because *beep* just happens, sometimes good *beep* at the right time...eg he used to be so concerned with his appearance and it so happened that his appearance got him ridiculed which not only taught him that people who mattered would love him no matter what he looked like, so would he still be able to look after the people of his town which is what he became a congressman for in the first place. He was a low key newscaster in the previous film Bruce Almighty and it was this physical "transformation" into a noah figure that got him his desired media attention.
You make the claim that the film is based on Noah's Ark when it isn't, it uses the old story for Evan's story. It simply taps into the bible psyche that is engrained in almost all western humans, religious or not, as a fairytale at the very least. Evan is one of these western people and so is America at large where the film is based and will be viewed.
To illustrate this we can hear Joan of "Ark", his wife, make the point that the "flood" could mean awareness or knowledge or whatever else slightly less tangible than a real physical apocalyptic flood, suggesting that the original story is up for interpretation even from a family of Bible owners. This would apply to modern people and those in the time when the Bible was first disseminated. So for you to have so much vested in a (your) version of the original fairytale means that you are coming at the film with bias and inevitably are going to try to fit it into that box
We can also clearly see that the Dummies Instruction manual given by god himself enabled him to build a boat that was stretched to the limit even for the relatively measly purpose of saving the town from the dam break and nothing else. So again this is an indication that the original ark story couldnt be literal as this boat would never actually be up for the task of saving the world from the type of flood you hankered after.
Animals are naturally intuitive because they haven't, as an example, completely succumbed to the egocentric human aspect of Eve & Adam portrayed by the commission hungry estate agent who facilitated the destruction of nature as displayed by the time warp scene
the clue is in god's name...Free Man. Man can use a crutch like god or a bible or even his own clouded mind or anything but ultimately its only when he truly follows his own intuition that the world can come into alignment and his prayers are answered by himself.
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