[TomB]

How many species were on the Ark, and how long did it take to load them all?

[BibChr]

How many species were on the Ark, and how long did it take to load them all?

Twenty-seven species, and it took fourteen hours, thirty-three minutes.

Dan

[BibChr]

BTW, that was a joke! LOL, how should I know? There were representatives of all the "kinds," and Noah had 120 years to complete all the preparations, which were aided by the same God who "hard-wires" migratory patterns (Genesis 6:3; 7:9).

Dan
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[Ahban]

I had a young student who researced that, trying to debunk the account. He was young but quite brilliant. We assumed bugs and the really little stuff could live on floating debris. Subtracting out them and aquatic life forms cuts out over 90% of animal life right there. We also subtracted out the amphibians, and the roughly 15% of birds, mammals, and reptiles who are at home in the water.

The answer was something like 11,000 "kinds". No one knows for sure when this flood occured, but I would guess it could be fewer species than that since speciation by subtraction could occur in the intervening years. In other words, 6,000 species released 10-12K ago could split into 11,000 today.