Reply #115: Nope. [View All]

At least get the myth right. Not that it much matters, except to the truly anal retentive.

Male and female of each animal that's unclean, and 7 pairs of each animal that's clean.

That does a few things: provides meat; provides indication that animals could be considered 'clean' before the Leviticus part of the narrative, which you obviously can take however you feel like taking; and it makes for yet more animals.

But fundies have no problem with this. Evolutionists freak at the implications of what some creationists say. Because the text includes something like "after their kind." The interpretation goes that really only genera were intended, with massive amounts of speciation afterwards. It really reduces the size of the ark and the amount of food. But it really makes the fossil chronology a hell of a problem.