How to feed and keep the animals on the Ark?

Well now, Schraf, I think I can get our creationist friends out of this muddle before they even get here. All they need to do is accept Eohippus (= Hyracotherium) as the Noachic representative of the Horse Kind, and they're in the clear! Medium dog-sized, eats and drinks less, maybe even easy to housebreak.....

Let's see - rain is usually fresh water, neh? And practically the entire list above, except for a few sorts of fish, will die or even "explode" in ten minutes in fresh water. So by what magickal mechanism do we preserve saltwater environments in a freshwater flood? Or, equally important, fresh water environments in all-covering seas? How 'bout those corals, which require clean salt water and sunlight to survive? Where did they hang out for a year of Flud?

Please expand upon this statement just a little. Is "mammals" one of these "kinds", for instance?

And how many phyla of "worms?"

That would include the Order Grylloblattidae, that die if you keep them warmer than 10C. They lived in the walk-in cooler, I suppose.

That's pretty well known. It's also pretty likely that insects floating in a rainstorm for forty days and then on a worldwide ocean for most of a year would pretty much all be dead. Take mayflies, for example: the larvae require cool, fresh (not sea) water. The adults live about a day. How are they going to make it?

Leviticus 1:13-19
'These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, every raven in its kind, and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture, and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.[This message has been edited by Coragyps, 09-09-2003]