u/SaddestPandaButt

Can a bored zoologist help me with math?

One of the (many) arguments against this Biblical story being taken as more than myth is that thousands of people would have drowned, and we would have found human remains giving credit to this event.

I’m “researching,” and basically my premise is that there are no human remains giving evidence to the Great Flood (in the Bible, with Noah and the boat) because Noah had to feed them all to the carnivores (and omnivores*) onboard.

There are 30 species of carnivorous mammals in the Middle East (the birds can fly around and get their own food) and an additional 25 in Northern Africa.

(*Omnivores would have been given primarily meat, as it would have been available, while hay and grain would have been reserved. Unfortunately I can’t find even a rough number of omnivore species that Noah would have crammed in, so maybe we won’t consider those for a minute.)

That’s 110 carnivores on the ark for 370 days.

Can someone please tell me, please, please let there be a zoologist roaming the conspiracy page, estimate a total mass or combined weight for all these critters? I’m down to do the math based on their combined body weight, AUM style (this isn’t real science after all, yall). I just can’t bear to look up every single species.

Also, this is an aside for later - like the omnivores - but there are enough R-species of fish for water-based populations to soar in a year, right?