Answer to last weeks question can be found under the subject of ARK, sub heading Ample carrying capacity. The book brings out very interesting points: of the 1,300,000 species of animals on earth "60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats" It also brings out the point, that it is possible that only about 43-72 types of mammals could have produced the whopping variety we see today. Therefore the ark really only needed to store about 150 animals and the rest were insects, birds who would live outside and fish.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:14:29 +0000
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