[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.

[TomB]

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.

Unfortunately Genesis 7 specifically states that everything outside the Ark perished:

" And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. "

[aShepard]

"In other words, 6,000 species released 10-12K ago could split into 11,000 today.

Ya mean, kind'a like in evolution???