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To: gundog

Depends how you count.

From Answers in Genesis website...

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Tallying the Passengers

Using the family criterion in combination with the “breath of life” criterion, the total number of kinds on board the Ark was low. Today, the number of living mammal, amphibian, reptile, and bird families (including the aquatic ones) is just over 500.6

If we include fossils, the number increases. In relative terms, the increase is significant, but in terms of absolute numbers, the new total represents a small fraction of the diversity of life on the planet. Among mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, the mammals have the most diverse fossil record. Only about 30% of all mammal families that ever existed are alive today.7 Assuming a similar percentage for amphibians, reptiles, and birds, we can estimate how many total families in these groups of creatures ever existed.

If 510 families exist in these groups today, and if this represents just 30% of all that ever lived, then a total of 1,700 mammalian, amphibian, reptilian, and avian families8 once existed on earth. This number—1,700—represents an upper estimate of the total number of kinds that Noah took on board the Ark


68 posted on 12/09/2018 5:00:02 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

So, he took representatives of Families, and the rest of extant species evolved from them? Search shows “platypodes” is the correct Greek plural. and autocorrect wants it to be “platypuses. “


69 posted on 12/09/2018 5:04:44 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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