Yes at the time they were but I don't know for sure what was on the ark. Were great danes and boxers or clydesdales on the ark ? A lot of diversity came after the flood.
There's no need to rewrite the bible to save a failed argument.
We know precisely what was for sure on the Ark.
Daws posted the relevant scripture:
1.Two (Genesis 6:19-20) - "And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive."
2.Seven (Genesis 7:2-3) - "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; 3also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth."
What are you having difficulty with?
This is exactly the problem that fundies have with their ever shrinking creation model. The evolution from Biblical Creationism to Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design is the deliberate and progressive stripping away of accountability on the part of fundies. As their arguments are doomed to failure, they begin to furiously rewrite and reinterpret their bibles. Its gotten so bad that the Christian fundies have jumped into bed with Islamic creationists.