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|summary=Modern scientific knowledge regarding the diversity of species, language and evidence of continuous human habitation does not support the Biblical story that a global flood wiped out most life as recently as 4,400 years ago | |summary=Modern scientific knowledge regarding the diversity of species, language and evidence of continuous human habitation does not support the Biblical story that a global flood wiped out most life as recently as 4,400 years ago | ||
|sublink1=Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? | |||
|sublink2=Source:Widtsoe:Encyclopedia of Mormonism:Earth:The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits | |||
|sublink3=Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? | |||
|sublink4=Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? | |||
|sublink5=Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local? | |||
|sublink6=Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood? | |||
|sublink7=Question: How did ancient people of the Old and New Worlds view the "the world"? | |||
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Science and the Bible
Science and the Bible