Many people are under the mistaken impression that the ark would have been overloaded. This is based on some common misconceptions. In reality the animals loaded in the ark would have been land living, air breathing animals
sorted by kind (not species). The pictures in this view of the model and its caging systems shows the ark contained the animals outlined in the Biblical record (Genesis 6:17-20).
As shown in this picture the ark carried a wide representation of the animals that inhabited the earth. This was necessary because the flood was a global flood. All air breathing land living animals would have been
exterminated. In reality the ark was a huge ocean going vessel that could easily have done what God required it to do.
Here Noah is shown feeding some of the ark's occupants. Most biblical scholars estimate between 2,000 to 35,000 animal were on board the ark. When manpower studies are done of the amount of labor need to care for all the
animals it is apparent that 8 people working 60 hours a week could easily have cared for all the animals. There would have been enough time to observe the Sabbath day rest mentioned in Genesis 2:1-3.
Arnold Mendez presents seminars on the subject of the Genesis Flood and Early Man. He has studied the Genesis account and the creation versus evolution controversy for the last 25 years. He is a chemistry instructor at Texas
A&M University in Corpus Christi and has both a Master and Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (minor Chemistry). His Noah's Ark & Early Man Seminars web site has more details about the flood, early man, evolution, creation,
radiometric dating, biblical longevity and various other topics.
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