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→Noah's ark holding every species: Have updated the previous 'few hundred thousand' species to the more accurate few 'million' and listed the number of land animals appearing that make Noahs ark story 'difficult' to believe has happened. Sources are now provided for these claims too which weren't previously.
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(→Implied similar size and distance of the sun and moon: I have changed a previous 'moon would need to travel 98 million miles' mention to 'tens of millions' as the figure they provided does not have a source, and the figure seemed to contradict NASA (and other sources) that the sun and both Earth and moon are 93 million miles away (so would lie c.41m miles apart). And added sections explaining what would happen should the sun move toward the Earth (on judgement day).) |
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===Noah's ark holding every species=== | ===Noah's ark holding every species=== | ||
Part of the legend of Noah's Ark is that a pair of every living species was stored on board. Modern science has revealed, however, that there are over | Part of the legend of Noah's Ark is that a pair of every living species was stored on board. Modern science has revealed, however, that there are over 2.1 million species of identified species including penguins, polar bears, koala bears, and kangaroos discovered and named,<ref>[https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-species-are-there#:~:text=Species%20that%20we%20have%20identified,million%20species%20on%20the%20planet. https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-species-are-there#:~:text=Species%20that%20we%20have%20identified,million%20species%20on%20the%20planet.]</ref> and there are an estimated 8.7 million in total<ref>[https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm#:~:text=Summary%3A,on%20a%20new%20analytical%20technique. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm#:~:text=Summary%3A,on%20a%20new%20analytical%20technique.]</ref> with many not yet discovered, that live spread across the entire planet and each of which require different climates, habitats, and diets. This includes over a million identified insects, 110,000 arachnids, 11,000 birds, 11,000 reptiles and 6,500 mammals.<ref>https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-species-are-there</ref> | ||
These discoveries appear to render the idea that all animals could have been kept on board a single ship impossible. | |||
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