In Henry Morris’ book THE GENESIS RECORD, page 185, he notes that there were about 36,000 species of animals on the earth at the time of the Flood. This would mean no more than 75,000 species of animals on the ark when the extra “clean” animals are included. The capacity of the ark would equal 522 train stock cars, whereas 75,000 animals would only fill about 300 stock cars and thus be filled to about 60% of its capacity.
The ark had more than enough room to carry all the animals required to replenish the earth. Remember also, Noah would not have brought full-size animals on to the ark nor would ALL of these species needed to go on the ark. A few more basic “kinds” would have sufficed to produce the variation we have in existence today.
Possibly related:
- What about dinosaurs? Why aren’t they mentioned in the Bible? Scientists say dinosaurs predate man which would contradict the Bible. How could a dinosaur have been carried on the ark?
- If everyone came from Noah and his sons, how did we get all the different races of people on the earth?
- How can the Bible say that God created everything in six days when science has proven the earth to be billions of years old?