How many rabbits were on Noahs Ark after 40 days?
” Try rabbits. Let’s work up a few numbers. We’ll be very conservative (since creationists seem to have taken up the “conservative” banner). Start with the one pair that hopped off the Ark (not seven, since, if I’m not mistaken, rabbits are “unclean”). Assume that pair had only four kits in the first year (very conservative for rabbits). It’s been a long time since I raised bunnies, but I think it would be fair to say that by one year of age, each pair of kits has produced a 4-kit litter of its own. Continue adding rabbits at that rate each year. Rabbits do die, though, so assume every pair of rabbits dies after its third year, after having produced three litters of four, for a total of 12 offspring. Conservative enough so far? At this ludicrously slow rate of reproduction (for rabbits), one year after the waters receded there would be six: the original pair that Ham, Shem, or Japheth herded in, plus four kits (we’re even assuming Mr. Rabbit did not “know” his wife, in the King James V
