Could this ship (see link) carry 2 of all species that exist on the planet today?

Question

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~sandira/Website/Information%20Links/Largest%20Ship.htm

Answer 1

Yes, if we kept there DNA only. I wonder how long untill christians start saying that this is what Noah actually did. The 'ark' could have been a space ship. And this will also explain life outside of the earth.

Answer 2

The ship Noah had was just longer than a football field (end zones included), 25 yards wide and 15 yards tall. It had 3 levels. Noah was not instucted to get every form of each species, just the kinds of animals. He didn't need to get every breed of dog, just dogs. Also, he didn't need to get any fish for obvious reasons. The range of species we have today are a result of the more realistic form of evolution so to speak. I am not saying that evolution is what created these species because that is absurd and scientifically considered so unlikely it is impossible. Just like some breeds of dogs were breed in China that through intentional breeding altered the look of the dog. The point is that the genetic material was already there because God created it the animal, not because a massless pond scum evolved into a human with 60,000 nerve endings in their eye alone. Also I believe the animals came to Noah. After all he lived several hundred years, he had plenty of time to get all the animals.

Answer 3

The answer is we'll probably never know. We are still finding new species of animal every day, and the total number of animal species found now totals in the billions, not including crossbreeding.
There is also the added problem that you would also have to carry food, including some specific foods. And theres the mess as well...

Answer 4

NO far from it. The oil tanker is big, but you'd need a continent the size of Africa to house two of every species in the World.
By the time you've got 2 Blue Whales on there alone, I doubt you'd have much room left for the millions of other animals.

Answer 5

More like 100 of each.

There were not as many animals roaming the planet when noah built his Ark. Many of today's animals are mutations from the few that roamed back then.

The size of the ship was not the real issue though, it was the length of time they needed to be aboard that made the Ark a real wonder.

Answer 6

Mark Twain dealt with something similar in a writing called "Letters from the Earth" about Noah's Ark (supposedly written by Satan to St. Peter, it's available in The Bible According to Mark Twain). Twain estimates there are 146,000 different birds, animals, and fresh water fish (they can't live in salt water, so they had to be on the ark), plus another two million species of insects. He points out that one Roman named Symmachus spent three years collecting much less than that for the Roman games (only fighting animals were collected).
Twain goes on to mention that additional animals had to be taken aboard as food for carnivores, plus plants for the herbivores. He also goes into a "delightful" rendition of something called the "Constipation Song", because all the germs had to be spared the fate of the flood as well.
I haven't looked at the site, but I think the numbers can probably help with your answer.

Answer 7

It's amazing how unknowledgable you are about God because you won't believe, your loss to the extreme. God made the animals that needed saving go to Noah, and there only had to be two of each kind of animal, only two dogs not two Shepards,two Collies, two Yorkies, or two Boxers etc. & seven of each clean animal, 7 cows, 7 sheep, 7 goats,etc. All would have eaten vegetaion not carnivours eating meat. Noah built the Ark over a sixty year period, plenty of time for the animals to get to Noah.

Answer 8

no. of course not. Sorry, but i do not see it possible. Dont get me wrong; i DO read the bible, and i DO believe noahs ark. But he had god (if there is one, no offense) with all the magic and whatever he has up his robe sleaves.
Elephants? they are pretty huge..
just no. its my opinion and i will give you an apology if i find out that that boat carries every single animal on this planet. but think about it, even if it could, it couldnt. there are PROBABLY 2,000 more unknown animals in this world.
no

Answer 9

The Apocryphal book of Jubilees says all the animals were babies.I tend to agree with that.I also agree that the Ark's measurements ,the cubit ,was the royal cubit used in the Great Pyramid and the Ark of the Covenant,which was 24" to the cubit.
Yeah they could fit.

Answer 10

Depends... are you asking me to stick two/seven of every single type of animal (red wolf, gray wolf, Labrador Retriever, Chihuahua, desert fox... Grevy's Zebra, plains zebra... buffalo, bison, black angus), or two/seven of a representative kind (two wolves [representing all canines], two horses [representing the single-hooved quadrupeds], seven cattle [representing cud-chewing cleft foot quadrupeds])?

I could, if you ask for kinds, as the Bible states. I could not, if you ask for every single Genus/species combination, which goes beyond the Biblical description.