(March 25, 2014 at 10:03 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Here are just a few problems with the ark.
- It's 450 feet long by 300 feet high by 75 feet wide. I would like to point out that at a certain length (something less than 300 feet), ships invariably begin to get less and less seaworthy. You simply cannot entrust something you can't expect to stay afloat with the preservation of life on Earth.
- By simple calculation, the Ark had a volume of 10,125,000 cubic feet, which is not likely to contain all 8.7 million species estimated to live on Earth.
- To get around this, some creationists note that Noah did not take two of every species, but two of every "kind". Apart from the fact that they have never given an adequate definition of "kind," even if they could get the number small enough to fit on the ark, this would, ironically enough, not only actually require evolution (and speciation specifically) to happen, but to happen at such an alarming rate that nobody could deny it.
Many of the insects would not have taken up more than a cubic inch, many of the animals would not ave taken up more than a cubic foot, most of the birds would not taken up more than 1.5 cubic feet, and many of them less than a cubic foot. Many reptiles would not have taken up a cubic foot, seems to me that the 10,000,000 cubic feet is getting more spacious. I doubt that there were 8.3 million animals on the Ark because God did say kinds. Kind were those which can not interbreed, that does not hold true with today's definition of species. Who says that creationist do not believe in speciation, the lion and tiger are breed together to bring about another cat called a liger, yet it is still a cat. If evolution were correct we could breed a lion and a dog and get a log
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