One netfriend wrote:

Sarcasm based on the idea that the ark was too small to take in all the animals specified, but that’s an idea that isn’t obviously true.

Ken Smith responded:

It depends on what you take as the scientific interpretation of “kinds”.

If you get hold of Young’s concordance to the King James version it gives a list of the occurrences of the word “kinds”.

Noah was told to take one pair (or seven pairs, depending on your interpretation) of each “kind” onto the ark.

But one verse speaks about the “beetle after his kind”, with the implication that beetles are a single “kind”.

I’ll let someone else correct me, but the number of species of beetle is somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000, allowing for a multitude of yet undiscovered “kinds”.

And creationists, when they give a scientifically intelligible definition of “kind”, give one which is virtually identical with “species”.

Salaam Ken Smith