"how many animals do you think were on the Ark ? how many species existed at the time ? the story of the ark does not coincide with contemporary science , but it does work with the rest of Genesis . this is Genesis 2 : 15-23 now bear in mind that all this happened in one day ( day 6 ) . How many species of animals can a man name in a day ? OK , Noah is 9 generations after Adam , and according to the story , a generation was like 200 years on average , plus at the time Noah built the ark , he was some 200 something himself ( cant remember the exact figure ) . so say its 2000 years or so after the creation day . Anyway , its possible that not a lot of speciation took place in that time , plus its arguable that there wasnt a lot of migration away from the Eden area either . so all the animals in the Earth were relatively close-by , and there couldnt have been a great number of new or variant species from the ones originally created . From the Creation to the Flood , the story makes sense . multiply the number of animals Adam named in a day by 2 , and add 25 % for speciation , and thats the number of animals that needed to be in the ark . sounds logical to me but then again , its just a story ..."
"That & # 8217 ; s not the problem . The problem is how do you account for all the different species that are on the earth today coming from what you say were on the ark ?"
"but it does work with the rest of Genesis . this is Genesis 2 : 15-23 now bear in mind that all this happened in one day ( day 6 ) . How many species of animals can a man name in a day"
"That s not the problem . The problem is how do you account for all the different species that are on the earth today coming from what you say were on the ark ?"