Noah's Ark

[Undeceived]

As of 2010, there are 1.7 million known species on Earth. Let's give the Christians the benefit of the doubt and remove Fish (31,300), Crustaceans (47,000), Corals (2,175) and Algae (13,201). Let's also condense the insects down to say, 25,000 from 1,000,000 for space sake. This lowers to number of species to a paltry 631,324. Double that and you have 1,262,648 animals. Each animal requires it's own space and it's own food to survive for 40 days and 40 nights. Some animals are much larger then others and some are much smaller. To reach an easy medium of space needed, let's say that all these animals need approximately the space and food a human would need. A human could survive for a little over a month in say, a 6x4' (24sq ft) room or so. Using this logic, the Ark would have needed to be 30,303,552sq feet just to store the animals. That's 1.08699sq miles. This is before you take in to account the amount of food and fresh water needed to sustain all these animals. Now obviously the boat would have been boat shaped and not a square. If you just take the 6 foot rooms needed and multiply it by the number of species you end up with a ship that is 1434 miles long, almost half the distance across the United States...

Am I right in saying you gave 25,000 pairs of insects 24sq feet each? The number I've heard *total* is 16,000. There are less than 16,000 mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Some amphibians can live for long periods in the water, and birds can rest on the roof. The space would be enough for that many, assuming they were juveniles. Spider eggs and worms are very small. Any insects that need to be out of the weather would be fine sharing with larger animals. We're assuming God created a certain peace on the ark, the way He shut the lions' mouths for Daniel. Do you know what the other ~500,000 species are?

Links on the subject:
http://www.gotquestions.org/Noahs-ark-animals.html
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles...he-animals