Help me answer my YEC chem professor

How many miracles do you believe were involved in the Flood story? The Bible really only talks about one, the flood itself, but there must have been literally millions of miracles for this story to have been true. First, let's start with the boat itself. A wooden boat of that size built by one man with primitive tools in the span of a few days seems incredibly implausible. Secondly, there were 7 breeding pairs of each animal on the planet. And there were some 5 millions species. So 14*5 million = 70 million animals AND THEIR FOOD SUPPLY fit on that boat. So each animal and its food supply had to be miniaturized; 70 million miracles + 5 million miracles (one for each food supply). Then, once the flood was over most of the planets on the surface would've been dead leaving the herbivores nothing to eat. So now we need a miracle for each and every plant species on the planet. There are about 300k known plant species on the planet, but presumably not all of those would need supernatural interference. Let's say half and call it another 150k species need miraculous saving/replenishment. Okay, now the herbivores can forage and there's 14 of each of them. What about the omnivores and carnivores the first days after the end of the flood? Again we're going to be adding millions upon millions of interventions to feed the animals with mana from heaven or something. Now we need to disperse the animals somehow without any traces of migration. That's at least a good 20-30 million miracles also. The best science suggests the average MVP (minimum viable population to allow a species to keep going for over 100 years) is about 4k individuals for vertebrate species. But we've only got 14 per species. So the breeding for every species between day 1 of flood being over to at least 4k would have had to have been miraculous. That's tens of millions of miracles. Now once we've done that, we still can't account for the genetic diversity that exists both in human and animal species on the planet. You simply cannot get from there to here via normal means. So some additional trickery must've been involved to have DNA in some babies that would not reasonably appear to have come directly from its parents. This again would be tens of millions of miracles when you spread it across all the species.

So we're honestly looking at hundreds of millions of miracles, perhaps billions, must have taken place for a literal reading of Noah's Ark to be taken. And we haven't even started on the geological or archaeological records. Now an omnipotent God would probably not be daunted by millions or billions of miracles. It just goes to show how ludicrously impossible the Flood story is if you look at the evidence in front of you and attempt to describe the history of the world, rather than seeking out tiny bits of data that you can use for confirmation bias.

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