How Many Different Kinds of Animals Are There?
If Noah took a pair of every animal on earth aboard his ark, then that boat must have been big indeed! For the number of different kinds of animals, or species, is higher than you'd ever imagine.
The class of animals that human beings belong to, the mammals, includes close to 5,000 species. The number of birds is over 15,000. There are more than 3,000 kinds of snakes, and 300 kinds of turtles.
The mollusk family, which includes sea animals like the clam, has more than 100,000 members, while the lobster and crab family has over 20,000. There are some 15,000 species of protozoans, or one-celled animals, but the record for the number of different species is held by insects, with well over 750,000!
The best estimate is that there are at least three million different kinds of animals on earth!
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Why would Noah need to bring Fish on the Ark???
The ark has the same cargo capacity of a modern cargo ship. The ark had a volume of 1.4 million cubic feet and a gross tonnage of 14,000 tons. This is the equivalent of 522 railroad box cars. The ark could have carried over 125,000 SHEEP-SIZED animals. Interestingly, there are less than 23,300 species of LAND ANIMALS alive today. Not including the 750.000 insects... How many insects does it take to equal the size equivalent of a sheep? Also, the average size of most animals is less than that of a sheep.. so i think there would have been enough room. As for water going Animals like fish and whales.... Um, they swim. And the bible never said Moses had to bring them on the Ark, most likely for that fact.
And You also have to take into consideration, The bible claims there to have only been one Land mass (Pangea) during this time before the flood. Genesis 1:9 hints toward that. Just thought i would throw that fact in before someone asks how Noah got all the animals from Australia.... AND the ark was built in a time frame of 120 years. Thats three times longer then it took to build the Egyption pyramids... So Noah did not need 30 years to get all the animals, he had 120.
Anyways, have a nice day:p
Kinds and species are very
Kinds and species are very very different. If you are trying to prove the Bible inaccurate then you should really watch this video freehovind.com/watch-2528412371399195162 or just watch all of his videos at freehovind.com . Noah did not take every species he took ever KIND and he didn't take full grown animals he didn't take bugs and he didn't take sea animals. He did however take dinosaurs.
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