Waste, I can understand - pull a cruise ship and dump overboard... :)
Nevertheless, that’s a LOT of shoveling!
But, think about feeding just two elephants (300-600 pounds of food a day, for 378 days). A standard hay bale is 45 pounds, and is 5.25 cubic feet. You need 20 bales of hay per day - 7560 bales for just the elephants.
That’s about 40,000 cubic feet of space. That’s equivalent to about 3.5 typical US houses! Yes, you need 3.5 piles as big as homes just to feed the elephants.
Sure, the ark dimensions are big - but you just used up a huge chunk of it just to feed the elephants. And we aren’t even talking about other big eaters. A water buffalo eats about half that amount, as do rhinos and bison. Asian elephants eat about 70% of what their bigger African cousins eat.
So with just African and Asian elephants, rhinos (all 5 species - remember, no evolution!), water buffalos (two species), and bison, we’re talking 41 house-sized piles of hay. Or about 46,000 cubic meters.
Using the dimensions above for the ark, we can see an internal volume of around 30,000 cubic meters. So we’ve filled all of the ark - and half a second one - just for food for elephants, rhinos, bisons, and water buffalos.
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Using the dimensions above for the ark, we can see an internal volume of around 30,000 cubic meters. So we’ve filled all of the ark - and half a second one - just for food for elephants, rhinos, bisons, and water buffalos.
One pair of elephants, 1 pair of rhinos, 1 pair of water buffaloes. http://creation.com/speciation-conference-brings-good-news-for-creationists As for the food and care, there are some limited explanations on their web site but the best discussion of it I have seen is in the book Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study, which is available on the site.
My main point is you are basing your arguments on assumptions that have already been discussed in detail and are not accepted by those you seek to refute. The only thing you have demonstrated is a lack of understanding of your opponent's position.
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The animals were most likely all infantile.
The reptiles would have been eggs.
I feel bad for the koalas who have to walk from Turkey to Australia.