GPBear
The Tape Crusader
Let’s disregard the fact that you’re playing semantics, the Bible wasn’t in English so the Bible didn’t use the word “kind”, and the distinctions between species/family weren’t developed until 1800 years after Jesus -FYI the Bible used the word “kind” and not species of animal so that broadens it to the family level. Example Wolves, Coyotes if they mate it still the family of Dog. Creator told Noah 2 of every kind of animal. So yea they could fit on the ark.
There’s 6,000 families of animals. That means around 12,000 animals.
Modern medium-sized ocean bound livestock carriers contain about 3000-4000 heads of cattle. Add on 2% body weight in food per day (forty days and nights, going to need about 80% total weight in food.) Ships of this kind were only developed in the 20th century with the advent of steel hulls, so the concept of a single man making a similar sized ship of wood is already impossible from a perspective of naval architecture.
Noah’s ark was around 500 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall. That’s a capacity of ~1,600,000 cubic feet. A medium livestock carrier made of metal of similar dimensions can only hold 1/3 the amount of animals, and with enough food to last three days. Apparently the omniscient creator drastically lowballed how big Noah shoulda made his ship.
