I notice someone else has corrected you on the difference between fauna and flora, but as for the possibilities that some animals might have survived on floating jetsam, how do you read this?
...and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Granted that fish seem to have been exempted, and plants are not specifically mentioned, but that leaves millions of species of insects and other non-mammals.
[[...and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Granted that fish seem to have been exempted, and plants are not specifically mentioned, but that leaves millions of species of insects and other non-mammals]]
Yes- I mistakenly thought flora- not fauna- Flora are very resilient and could very well have survived the flood- as for animals surviving outside the ark- no- every thing that crept/walked, flew was destroyed. This may sound inpossible, but remember, Noah only needed to save the original KINDS, not every subspecies within the KINDS- After hte flood, genetic diversities would have produced all the millions of suibspecies within the KINDS.