It wasn’t 2 each there were. 7 pairs of the clean animals, not just a pair
I presume they calculated this using original measurements. Remarkable that it turns out to work, but when you think about it, it shouldn’t be a surprise. When a historical document is specific in its measurements, it is probably based in historical fact. There was indeed an ark.
It’s a story, not literal truth.
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I wonder how Noah was able to get species like the Polar bear, bison, Kangaroo, Koala, Tasmanian Devil etc on the boat. Or for that matter how did any of those species end up on in North America or especially Australia after the flood?
It floated because GOD caused it to be made by His standards, thus it floated and would never have sunk. Not only did it have to carry the load, but also withstand the storm. It did, thus God made it happen. End of story.
Who gives a damn?
Who gives a damn?
the evidence is there was a flood
if the earth was flooded some had to survive
Hence Noah
QED
Noah`s wife was Chinese and ordered DIM SUN to go.
According to scripture the ark was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high.
A conservative calculation for the cubit is around 17.5 inches while some scholars believe it to be closer to 56 centimeters or 22 inches.
This puts the arks size at around 437 feet long, 72 feet wide by 43 feet high.
(A length to width proportion of 6 to 1 which is still used by naval architects)
There were two floors which gave added support and three decks equaling around 96,000 square feet.
Now for the amount of capacity.
Besides Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, living creatures, of every sort of flesh, two of each ‘kind’ were to be brought on board.
(male and female)
Of the ‘clean’ beasts and fowls, seven of each were to be brought aboard.
It has been estimated by some that the hundreds of thousands of species of animals today could be reduced to a comparatively few family ‘kinds’- the horse and cow to mention only two.
With this thinking, some scientists have said that had there been 43 ‘kinds’ of mammals, 74 ‘kinds’ of birds and 10 ‘kinds’ of reptiles in the ark, they could have produced the number of species that we have today.
This is only speculation and seems restrictive since sources such as the Encyclopedia Americana indicates that there are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals.
However, over 60 percent of these are insects.
Breaking the figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside of the ark.
5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises which would have also remained outside the ark.
Some scientists estimate that there are only about 290 species of land animals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats.
If you wish to do the mathematics you can see where the ark was large enough to handle the amount of ‘species’ that would carry on to today.
(I have a headache in just researching the scriptures and getting this overly long post ready for posting)
I know, some will say what about the dinosaurs but since that isn’t mentioned in scripture .. my guess is that they didn’t live during the time of Noah.
These are just my thoughts, simple as they may be and not all encompassing for sure.
Other Christians can probably add more than what I have said here because .. there is so much more!
I apologize if I have upset any of my friends on the forum.
(any spelling errors are strictly mine) 8(
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What I think about that is ... how many dog varieties are there ... and then ... how many dog kinds are there?