Thank you Russ for your help in defining the issue.
Yes, assuming only two of each kind was taken.
The Book says:
Several different things in different places. Whether you are talking two of every {whatever} or two
pair of every {whatever} and then seven of every
clean {whatever} or seven
pair of every
clean {whatever} ...
So, we have to figure out what a "sort" is.
Taken together, it seems that there was minimal variety at the time of the ark ...
But these are all
functionally the same thing: a small (undefined) number of initial breeding populations that diversifies into the life we see today by variation and adaptation and by speciation.
With all due respect, it's pretty hard to trace this type of distribution this long after a catastrophe of this type.
Certainly the evidence will be missing for some, however there should be
some evidence that can be followed back far enough. We should also be able to mark the flood event by (1) evidence of a flood boundary (all jumbled below -- see SoSick above), (2) mass extinction (in the flood), (3) bottle-neck populations (severely reduced numbers initially) in all life forms after the extinction event and (4) evidence of parent populations for types of life currently living that are recognized as kinds -- humans, dogs and horses for example.
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