I suggest a much bigger issue than whether the Ark could float the animals is whether it could float their supplies.
An elephant eats upwards of 300 pounds per day, so two adult elephants would consume upwards of 110 tons of food over the course of the arks journey.
That compares with perhaps 6 to 10 tons for the elephants themselves. Which gives us a ratio of perhaps 10x to 15x for the food supply as compared to the mass of the animals themselves.
Applying the ratio to people, which is perhaps more typical of many animals, particularly omnivores. 200 pound man requires about 2 pounds of dry food per day. 2 x 370 days = 740 pounds = food ratio of 3.7.
Horses eat about 3% of body weight per day, so food ratio of somewhere around 11.
Norm the ratio at a conservative 6:1 for food for all animals. The article unfortunately doesn’t seem to include the rather important number of the weight of the animals, only their quantity. But it would seem their food would weigh at least 6x as much as they did.
Also, if the entire earth was flooded, presumably the water the Ark was surrounded by was salty, which presents a rather critical logistical problem in itself.
Very good point! Much less the tons of crap that would accumulate and have to be disposed of on a minute to minute basis.
How about the weight of the biggest cruise ship pool ever—just to float the whales?
Sounds like you don’t believe it really happened. Apparently you have not heard the ideas of bringing in juvenile or even infant versions of each animal kind nor the idea that most any species has the ability to hibernate esp. under extremely stress-filled conditions.
If the rain water wasn’t fresh I’m fairly certain God provided a way for their every need. Heck, even now a days He provides for the atheist’s every need, doesn’t He?
creationscience.com - the only plausible explanation for our present-day conditions and it’s rich abundant variety of life forms imho.