RSR: How Many Animals Were on the Ark?
* As Few as 1,000 Pairs of Animals on the Ark: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams discuss a wonderful article about the significant research project underway at Answers in Genesis (and other creation research centers) to identify the created kinds among land animals so that we can learn more about our Creator God, the creatures He made, and about how much work it would have been for Noah's family to clean up after all those critters! Of course, per God's criteria reported by Moses in Genesis, no bacteria, insects, plants, nor fish had to be brought onto the ark. So as it turns out, by generally counting "kinds", and usually not "species", current research indicates that there could have been as few as 2,000 animals on the ark.
* Hear RSR's Interview with a Baraminologist: RSR interviewed in studio Dr. Roger Sanders about his field of baraminology, the furtherance of Adam's first task, which was to name the animals, into a classification of living things within the framework of the created kinds as described in Genesis. The anti-creationist National Center for Science Education begrudgingly states, in an article by Alan Gishlick, that researchers such as Dr. Sanders, "practice a form of systematics, called 'baraminology', and for creationist science it is surprisingly rigorous and internally consistent."
* Research Project and Genetic Diversity Prediction between Clean and Unclean Animals: Biblically speaking, the difference between "clean" and "unclean" animals is that the clean animals were acceptable by God for sacrifice, and so God instructed Noah to bring seven pairs of clean animals on the ark. As a result, even though some of these clean animals would have been offered up as sacrifices, a creationist prediction of Real Science Radio is that there may be greater genetic diversity among today's descendants of the clean land animals as compared to unclean land animals.
* Fun Facebook Page: Bob and Fred just found out about an encouraging page: facebook.com/hydroplate! And see also our own rsr.org/hydroplate page!