“Answer: The answer to both questions is the same, presuming no extinctions during the first 1,500 years of world history. We don't even know how many "kinds" or "species" are alive today!”
But… I’m OFTEN told that the answer to every question is in the Bible.
“Please bear in mind that "kinds" and "species" are not necessarily the same.”
Oh, they’re clearly not.
“"Kind" is a biblical term”
Yeah, like measurements in scifi. WRiters COULD use meters or feet, but they invent nebulous terms so they don’t have to calculate every single dimension. They’ll get letters. “Hey, in chapter 2 you use ‘Kelf’ to indicate what seems like meters, but in chapter 6 it’s clearly more like a fathom.”
“while "species" is a human designation. Each word has its own, different, and imprecise meanings.”
This is an untruth. The meaning of the word is clear. The problem comes when reality doesn’t quite match the expectations of scientists, like Ring Species.
So. Are you lying or just passing on gossip?
“In general, "kind" is often a bit broader than "species."
Yes. God has said, “four-legged creepy insects: the locust and his kind, bald locust and his kind, beetles, grasshoppers.”
Beetles covers a shitload of species. And what the hell is ‘the kind’ of locusts?
“Morris and Whitcomb, in their book The Genesis Flood, estimate that there was enough room on the Ark for 35,000 sheep-size animals.”
The dimensions of the Ark are in cubits. Using the LARGEST definition of a cubit, that gives us about 18 high-school basketball courts of deck space. Can we get 18 Christain schools to donate their basketball courts for a year experiment? Each school keeps 1945 sheep in one basketball court for a year? Including a year’s worth of food? Now is the time to do it. Every other president, the SPCA would have shut this effort the fuck down.
So, six people at each school can only enter the court for 1 hour a day to feed, clean, maintain the cages, bucket the shit over the side, and pump the pee. Anything that takes more than an hour has to come out of the other crews’ hour.
THis is ridiculous and cruelty to animals. Admittedly, not a great concern for an even t of mass-murder used to decorate nurseries, but don’t just glad-hand the problems.