With the new movie about Noah and the ark coming out, i thought it appropriate to post my personal study about how all the animals would have fit into the ark as mentioned in Genesis 7. Many skeptics will allege that it would be impossible to fit all the animals into Noahs Ark. So ive decided to put pen to paper and demonstrate just how easily all the land animals of the earth would fit into the ark as described in Genesis by breaking down each type of species. The size of the ark and all its animals by Mario Carpinelli. Did you know that all the species of land animals as mentioned in Genesis 7 and 8 wouldnt have even taken up a third of the space of the ark? The ark was more than large enough to hold a pair of each species of land animals. The ark had 1,518,750 cubic feet of space. Its measurements were 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits. A cubit is one and a half feet long. That means the ark was 450x75x45. thats multiple football fields in size. Almost all th species of land animals are insects. Their are only several hundred species that are the size of a sheep and larger. There are 8 different kinds of land animals. insects, avian (birds), reptiles, Cheliceratas (mites/scorpions), Myriapodas (pedes), amphibians, annelids (worms/leeches) and mammals. 1. Insects: There are 925,000 known species of insects. Fit each average pair in an area of 1 cubic inch. Thats 925,000 cubic inches or under 77,085 cubic feet. We’re left with over 1,441,665 Cubic Feet. 2. Avian: There are 10,000 known bird species. The bible says there were seven of each bird species. That is 70,000 birds. The average bird size is of a parakeet. Give each bird 4 cubic feet and they take up 280,000 cubic feet. That leaves us with over 1,413,665 3. Reptiles: There are about 8,200 known reptile species. Most are about the size of a snake or lizard. Give each average pair of reptiles about 3 Cubic Feet and they will take up 24,600 Cubic Feet of space. We are now left with over 1,389,065 cubic feet. 4. Cheliceratas: There are about 77,000 known species of cheliceratas (scorpions/spiders/mites). Give each average pair 3 cubic inches of space on the ark and they will use up 231,000 cubic inches (19,250 cubic feet). We are now left with 1,369,815 cubic feet of space on the ark. 5. Myriapodas: There are about 13,000 known species of Myriapoda’s (millipedes/Centipedes). Give each average pair of them 5 cubic inches and they will take up about 65,000 cubic inches (5,417 cubic feet). We are left with 1,364,398 cubic feet of space on the ark. 6. Amphibians: There are about 6,000 know species of amphibians (frogs). Give each average pair of frogs 6 cubic inches of hopping space and they only take 36,000 cubic inches (3,000 cubic feet). We are now left with 1,358,398 cubic feet of space on the ark. 7. Annelids: There about 20,000 species of Annelids (worms/leeches) and almost all are marine or freshwater. Lets suppose 10,000 are land worms. Give each average pair of them 3 cubic inches and they will take up about 30,000 cubic inches (2500 cubic feet). We are now left with 1,355,898 cubic feet on the ark. 8. Mammals: There are only about 5,500 species of mammals. Almost all of them are rodent size. 2000 are rodents, 1000 of them are bats and then you have 250 of your livestock/cattle mammals, your carnivore mammals only have 37 feline and 35 canine and 9 bear species. And you have your horse/rhino mammals which are only 19 different kind and you have your elephant types. The average size mammal is of a sheep. Subtract all the whales and dolphins etc. and the average mammal is the size of a medium size dog. A pair of dogs is 2x2x1.5 feet. That’s 6 cubic feet in size. Let’s give them quadruple their size for plenty of moving around space at 24 cubic feet for them. 5500 mammals with 24 cubic feet would only take up 132,000 Cubic Feet. Let’s say that they need 200,000 cubic feet to accommodate the 7 of each clean mammal’s. We are now left with 1,155,898 cubic feet of space on the ark All the living species and the space provided them on the ark don’t even take up a third of the space of the ark. This leaves us with space for food, water, supplies, infrastructure and isles on the ark. This isnt even counting if all the animals were in an infant stage when brought aboard. Some will speculate and allege that the ship would have been too heavy to stay afloat with that percentage of volume in flesh. However i can fill a fishing boat with people and it will stay perfectly afloat.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:43:30 +0000
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