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* a lack of room for all the animals, usually on the basis of the biblical reference to ''kinds'' being the same as ''species''. Supporters of the account reject that ''kinds'' is to be equated with ''species'', so use a much lower number.
* a lack of room for all the animals, usually on the basis of the biblical reference to ''kinds'' being the same as ''species''. Supporters of the account reject that ''kinds'' is to be equated with ''species'', so use a much lower number.
* The difficulty of the eight humans on board to care for all the creatures on board.
* The difficulty of the eight humans on board to care for all the creatures on board.
* The difficulty some animals would have getting unaided to or from the ark, especially those adapted to a specific habitat, such as the sloth, which can only travel hanging on the branches of trees, and animals that live on islands and could not swim to those islands after the flood.
* The difficulty some animals would have getting unaided to or from the ark, especially those adapted to a specific habitat.
Young Earth Creationists have written a number of responses to such criticisms, such as John Woodmorappe's ''Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study''<ref>http://www.rae.org/noah.html</ref> which argues that ''kinds'' is not to be equated with ''species'', and that there would therefore be a much smaller number of creatures on the ark, and that there are ways that the humans on board could have cared for all the creatures on board. Creationary geologists have also pointed out that much of the Earth's geology is sedimentary (water-laid) rocks, as one would expect from a global flood.
Young Earth Creationists have written a number of responses to such criticisms, such as John Woodmorappe's ''Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study''<ref>http://www.rae.org/noah.html</ref> which argues that ''kinds'' is not to be equated with ''species'', and that there would therefore be a much smaller number of creatures on the ark, and that there are ways that the humans on board could have cared for all the creatures on board. Creationary geologists have also pointed out that much of the Earth's geology is sedimentary (water-laid) rocks, as one would expect from a global flood.