In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship— they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Representatives of every animal species boarded a single boat in one day.
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What current science says
There are millions of animal species on Earth. Even if animals lined up perfectly, boarding millions of species in 24 hours would mean loading about 100 species per second, non-stop. That's physically impossible, not even counting the logistics of getting animals from different continents.
What the text says
Genesis 7:13-14 says that the animals - every beast, bird, and creeping thing after their kind - entered the ark with Noah 'in the selfsame day,' all boarding within a single day.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.