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To: DariusBane
i've often thought about this...and have come to the conclusion that we have more species now than we did when the ark was originally built. For example, how many different kinds of dogs are there today? All of them are descended from wolves and he really only needed to pack 2 wolves on the ark.

I have also thought about how fast species change. I remember hearing about the filming of the movie "Robin Hood" with Kevin Costner in it. They were attempting to be as authentic as possible so they had to find cattle as they were at the time when Robin Hood lived. these cattle were incredibly small compared to what we know as cattle today - in only 700 years the species had changed and diversified to an incredible scale!

anyways, just bits of info on the real Flood and ark that I have assembled over the years.

20 posted on 10/18/2009 12:06:27 PM PDT by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: stefanbatory
i've often thought about this...and have come to the conclusion that we have more species now than we did when the ark was originally built. For example, how many different kinds of dogs are there today? All of them are descended from wolves and he really only needed to pack 2 wolves on the ark.

Don't mistake "species" with "breed". Breeds of dogs, and breeds of cattle, are not separate species, they can interbreed.

But even with a much simplified list of what would really have been necessary, The sheer task of adequate animal husbandry is too daunting to be workable on an ark, IMHO, I haven't seen a reasonable analysis yet of how that could be done, let alone the existence and survival of species not even known to exist yet in the middle east during Noah's time.

72 posted on 10/19/2009 9:00:49 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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