Ain\'t nature wonderful (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, September 17, 2010, 16:29 (5181 days ago) @ David Turell


> Have you studied the size of the ARK. not like an ocean liner. And again of 5,100 mammals, how did he get the kangaroos, llamas, platypus to the Middle East?-You missed the point of the what I was saying, and quote mined me. I said there are 5100+ current species of mammals, not that he would have had to load 5100 species. Specifically, I pointed out the fact that of those 5100 species, a large majority belong to reducible families, i.e. canine, feline, bovine, marsupial, etc etc. Knowing that there was an mass extinction event some 10000-16000BP, and that many of the large species alive at the time became extinct further supports this. So, in a nutshell, and so I am not misunderstood, he would not have needed to carry even remotely close to 5100 pairs(10200 minimum) animals on board the ark in order to fulfill the requirement. He would have only needed to care one ancestor from the feline family, one ancestor from the canine family, one ancestor from the bovine family, etc. which would dramatically reduce the numbers. This is a falsifiable hypothesis. Once the DNA sequences for all, or even most, of the modern mammals are mapped, trace them back to the closest common ancestor. I predict that you would find that all members of the canine family share a very recent common ancestor, and the same for all other suborders of species.