Star nosed moles, and biblical kinds

I'll take a stab at it.You could have rapid adaptations occur shortly after the ark was opened up and all the critters were let out. Within a few decades, they and their descendents would move into all the empty niches available and then adapt rapidly to the new conditions. An example of this would be peppered moths changing into the dark morphs. We would have many, many chances at sympatric speciation since there would be such relaxed selection and in many cases there would be no predation or parasitism at all.This would be much like what occured during the end of the Permian. The difference here is that with the Permian, only 95% of the species were extinct while after the flood, 100% of the species were effectively extinct since there were none in any of the niches available. A mere 5% difference between the two seems insignificant, but it is actually a huge difference since none of the species would have to compete and the populations would grow in many cases exponentially and begin to divide into species because of minor differences in temporal and spatial habits. That is animals that were more active at dusk would be more likely to mate with other animals that shared the same habit.Looks like the biggining of a book to me, maybe I'll write one and hit the lecture circuit. I bet there's a lot of money to be made off of something like this.

Elephants would not have to evolve, we have only 3 species and that would make 6 individuals.Also, I could prove that most species are in fact not species at all since the differences are so small. I'll use some muddled logic about prokaryots not being a species until they share 80% of the same genetic information and thus I could prove that mice are not mice, but only unrecognizable moles! Those darn biologists have been fibbing to us all this time.I was also thinking that the lack of genetic diversity found in cheetahs could be easily explained by this ark thingy. It would support the idea that this species in particular would prove beyond a shadow of doubt that Earth is in fact only 6,000 years old. Yeah yeah, that's the ticket!I'll even put in a chapter about how the genetic clock will show that the Earth will end in exactly 42 years from now. Can't figure an angle on this one yet.