Quotes about Species

Using the maximums discussed, the Ark Encounter estimation is about 1,400 kinds. This is translated to about 6,700 individuals on the ark. This number maximizes the animals but should likely

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.

Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.

Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.

Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

What are the minimum figures for animals on the ark? Researcher Arthur Jones, writing in the Creation Research Society Quarterly in 1973, simply put these qualifications at a family level and did the numbers.4 He arrived at about 1,000 families (and equated this with kinds). This would be about 2,000 individuals taken on the ark.