How do you get two of every Animal on a boat?

IT wasn't every animal, it was every KIND. Dog kind, cat kind, horse kind,etc. You don't need every breed, just one mongrel full of genetic material that can be separated through successive breeding and loss of genetic information (natural selection, not macro-evolution). How is this so hard to understand?
 
It's easy when God is in charge and when there weren't millions of species on the planet at the time and when only animals that breathed air where required on board and when the boat was bigger then any other boat in existence for thousands of years. The ark was much bigger then the Titanic.
 
You use your hands.

Step 1- Is animal small enough to fit in hands? If yes, proceed to Step 2. If no, stop now.
Step 2- Will animal react violently to being picked up? If no, proceed to Step 3. If yes, stop now.
Step 3- Pick up animal and place it in boat.

Draw happyface image and try to imitate in real life. ?
 
You load them very slowly, starting with the smallest. The bigger ones eat the smaller ones, so by the time you have finished, you are left with two elephants only and possibly two lions. Maybe that's not a good idea.

The other problem would be finding two of every animal in the world and rounding them up before the flood. Catching two tigers must have been a challenge.

It must be true though, because I read it in a book somewhere.
 
You make sure you have them killed, skinned, cleaned and butchered up. Wrap them, and then make sure it's got one big freezer on board.
 
God instructs Noah to build an ark to contain his family and at least one male and one female of every species of animal, so that the world can be repopulated after the Flood. There are some discrepancies in the story suggesting two different writers: for example, in Genesis 6:19 God tells Noah to take "two of every kind" of creature into the ark, but in 7:2 this becomes seven pairs of all clean animals, one pair of all unclean animals, and seven pairs of each species of bird.

Stories of a great deluge occur widely in mythology throughout the world. The biblical story of Noah is a version of a flood myth that originated in Mesopotamia and was familiar throughout the ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians (around 2500-2000 BCE). All the known versions of this myth have the same basic outline: a deity or deities send a deluge to destroy the world, but one righteous man is fore-warned of the disaster and builds a ship in which he and his family survive the flood. After the flood has subsided, the world continues to exist and is repopulated.

Before God sends the flood, the Bible tells us that human beings "began to multiply on the face of the ground" (Genesis 6:1). A similar expression occurs in the flood story in the Mesopotamian epic of Atrahasis, where the reason for the deluge is the gods' desire to curb human overpopulation. There are striking resemblances between the Genesis story and the account of a great flood related by Utnapishtim, who is the equivalent of Noah, in the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh. For example, Utnapishtim survives the flood by building a ship. The vessel finally comes to rest on Mount Nisir, which is in the same region as "the mountains of Ararat", where Noah's ark comes to rest (Genesis 8:4). Utnapishtim opens a window of his ship and sends out a dove, a swallow and a raven to reconnoitre the ground, much as Noah opens the window of the ark and sends out a raven and a dove.

On emerging from the ship, Utnapishtim offers a sacrifice which propitiates the gods when they smell its sweet savour, and they agree that in future humanity should be punished if it behaves wickedly, but not destroyed. Noah likewise offers a sacrifice, and after smelling its "pleasing odour", Yahweh promises: "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind ... nor will I destroy every living creature as I have done" (Genesis 8:21). Finally, both Utnapishtim and Noah are blessed and rewarded. Utnapishtim is granted immortality, while Noah lives for another three hundred and fifty years and is granted a fecund progeny that will repopulate the world.
 
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