(September 20, 2021 at 10:21 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: What ancient nomadic tribes did not know is how many animals species there are in the world, so “Two of every sort” seemed no big deal to the Biblical writers, who probably identified not more than a few hundred different animals altogether. For reference, Aristotle writing about 350 B.C.E., could list only about five hundred species of animals.
Yet we now know that there are some six thousand species of mammals alone.
Two of every kind would have resulted in an extinction vortex.
