So if you don’t know how many animals were in the Ark or the makeup of the population, how do you know who wasn’t in the Ark?
That seems like yours to defend. If you don't know then how can you claim its literal history?
I know that you cant put two of every animal that exists today on the earth on a boat for many days and drop them off together in a single spot and end up with what we see today.
I know that there were no aircraft carrier sized ships being built from trees thousands of years ago.
I know the the same book has two different versions of the Noah flood story.