There was plenty of room on the ark for a few thousand animals, Noah and his family, and the supplies they would need to survive the year-long voyage. That means if creatures belong to the same family, they probably belong to the same kind. “Kind” is at about the level of “family” in our modern classification system (e.g., the family Felidae, which includes all the aforementioned cats and then some). What does kind mean? You might think it’s the same as species (e.g., tigers, lions, cougars, and bobcats), but it’s not. Of course, Noah didn’t need to take 120,000 sheep onto the ark! He was commanded to take (by the way, God sent the animals to the Ark-Noah did not have to collect them) two of every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal and seven (possibly pairs) of some (such as the kind sheep belong to-so that’s only at most 14 representatives of the sheep kind). A ship this size would have the same storage capacity of about 483 standard semi-trailers, capable of hauling at least 120,000 sheep. So, it shouldn’t surprise us that the dimensions given in the Bible in cubits-about 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 50 feet high-are realistic dimensions for a massive cargo ship. Genesis describes the ark as a real vessel that was actually built by a real, historical person named Noah.
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