HOW MANY BEETLES WERE THERE ON NOAH'S ARK? (page 3)

frankiespeakin

(Melbrooks style Noah no named "wife"): "Oh shit Moses(Noah?) you just squashed all of that (beetle) species, under your big ass, and you're f#cking drunk again, and the f#cking roof is leaking, and piss and shit is everywhere, not to mention what this humidity has done to my hair, and get you shit stained hands off me, and don't even think of sex you lazy bastard,,, I can't decide what's worse to drowned with the people in the flood or being stuck here with your sorry ass here in this shit hole. Yeah go f#ck yourself, I ain't spreading tonight.

hooberus

ONE PAIR OF BEETLES WOULD HAVE HAD TO PRODUCE 7,500 SPECIES A YEAR,ASSUMING THERE ARE 30 MILLION SPECIES.
FROM 7 PAIRS,ABOUT 1000 SPECIES A YEAR.
DOES THIS SOUND PLAUSIBLE?

No it doesn't sound plausible, however your calculation falsely assumes that:

1. there must only one pair of beetles to begin with, and 2. that all the species must descend directly from the original pair (rather than also from any of their descendents, and their descendants descendants, etc, etc.), and 3. that there are 30 million species of beetles today [up by a factor of about 100 from the previous claim here that there are only about 350,000 documented species of beetles].

badboy

I AM ASSUMING NUMBERS OF SPECIES.

WHAT YOUR THEORY,HOOBERUS.

badboy

IT THERE WERE ONLY 350,000 SPECIES AND ONLY ONE PAIR OF BEETLES,87 DIFFERENT SPECIES WOULD HAVE TO PRODUCE EVERY YEAR.

hooberus

IT THERE WERE ONLY 350,000 SPECIES AND ONLY ONE PAIR OF BEETLES,87 DIFFERENT SPECIES WOULD HAVE TO PRODUCE EVERY YEAR.

Let us also not forget that 1.) all the species need not descend directly from the original pair (and could have also come about from their descendents, and their descendants descendants, etc, etc.), 2.) there could have been more than one pair to begin with. 3). bettles may not have even have been necessarily taken on the ark for survival, which would allow for possible pre-flood diversification time from many pairs.

jayhawk1

All jokes aside, beetles aren't the only problem. What about flies?

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/truefly.htm

General information. There are more than 110,000 described species of flies in the world. Flies are superb mimics, especially in the Families Bombyliidae (Bee flies), Syrphidae (Flower flies) , and Asilidae (Robber flies) . Bee flies are usually fast flying insects with appearances of small bees, while Robber Flies are commonly larger, slower flying, and a few resemble Bumble Bees. A fly known as the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly was designated as an endangered species in 1993 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This species has been found in sandy dunes and rolling terrain of two counties in southern California, and has been the subject of much controversy regarding the protection of some species of animals. Flies are found throughout the world, and exist in areas from the Arctic to the rain forests on the equator.