How Many Animals Were On The Ark?
on March 12, 2020Part 4
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This is Ken Ham, co-author of the book on Noah’s Flood called A Flood of Evidence .
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I’m often told Noah couldn’t have fit millions of species of animals on the ark. But he didn’t have to!
You see, Noah was commanded to take two of every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal on the ark with him. And seven pairs of some. So no fish … and probably no insects! And that word “kind” is important. “Kind” is about the level of “family” in our modern classification system. So Noah didn’t need species; he needed kinds … or families.
That means he only needed about one-thousand-four-hundred kinds, or less than seven thousand animals! That’s not that many!
As we show at our life-size Ark, Noah could easily fit them on board.
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Ken Ham is the Founder CEO of Answers in Genesis–US, the highly acclaimed Creation Museum, and the world-renowned Ark Encounter. Ken Ham is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America.
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