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. Most biblical scholars estimate between 2,000 to 35,000 animals 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 eight people working sixty 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. | 
