12, the number of animal species taken on board Noah’s ark was limited to the nephesh (soulish animals) that had been in relationship with humans. Nephesh in close contact with people at the time of Noah’s flood likely exceeded a few hundred species. The number of animal pairs on Noah’s ark could have been as high as a thousand.

Global flood proponents make an issue of the ark in their claims, too. They say that if Noah’s flood were less than globally extensive, no such vessel would have been necessary. God could have moved Noah, his family, and their animals to safety. He could have simply guided them to a safe location.

If the supernova identified by Erlykin and Wolfendale erupted during the time of Noah, it could have produced enough mutations in human DNA to explain the present-day diversity in human DNA even if Noah lived significantly more recently than 100,000 years ago. It could also yield more recent dates for mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam.

They say this movement would have caused tsunamis hundreds of meters high to rush over all Earth’s landmasses, which they say were significantly lower in elevation at that time.​19 They also claim that later in the course of Noah’s flood sudden and dramatic tectonic uplifts greatly increased the elevations of continental mountain ranges and

Nevertheless, the maximum range of dates for Noah’s flood (see chapter 11) falls within the range of these roughly determined dates for mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam. Y-Chromosome Noah The four women on board Noah’s ark likely are unrelated, biologically. Therefore, the mitochondrial DNA date back to Eve could be much earlier than the

It seems worth noting that a globally extensive flood would have destroyed virtually all the geographical markers mentioned. The generations of humanity living after the flood would have been unable to locate any geographical places mentioned in the Bible from the earlier era, such as the Garden of Eden and its rivers or the land of Nod (Genesis

Answers in Genesis biologist Nathaniel Jeanson proposes that only pairs of each terrestrial family were brought onto Noah’s ark, a number totaling just 1,700 pairs.

these land bridges were covered with far too much ice to be passable by humans until about 16,500 years ago.

’Ab refers to father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and beyond.​6 It can be used for a forefather, a distant ancestor, or an individual possessing authority, such as a king, a prophet, or a priest.​7 Similarly, ben may mean son, grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson, and so on, or a later member of a tribal unit