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Genesis 6:9 through 8:22
Text from The Bible Gateway starting with Chapter 6
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Scripture Audio:
Presented as dramatizations from The Bible Gateway
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Suggested Study Resources
The following four resources should be helpful. Of course feel free to chase down any study rabbit holes and you want to chase. This is your deep dive in the Word.
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Were Humans Alive During Pangea?
One of the questions brought up was if humans were alive when the single continent Pangea existed. The following very short article provides an answer.
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Did We All Come from Adam and Eve? | Answers in Genesis
The next question to look at is the plausibility that we all came from Adam and Eve.
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Science moves closer to Adam and Eve? – Richard Buggs
We will also look at some new thoughts on the possibility of Adam and Eve being the source for all human genomes.
This is a link to the associated video that goes with the article. It is recommended viewing.
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EXTRA CREDIT ARTICLES:
The following three resources will each take you down a unique view of the Noah story. Enjoy.
What Became of the Genetic Challenge to Adam and Eve?
This article shows in some ways how wrongheaded some of the philosophy of the required minimum of a population of 10,000 being required for a viable genome, and even opened up some more scientific possibilities. This is still real science that has real merit as well. Drew finds this view to be most plausible. It places Adam and Eve at a bottleneck where the population they could have come out of was plausibly < 2000, and they could have not interbred with anyone else and we would still have the genome that we do today. The caveat was that it would have to be > 500k years ago. The thing is though, william lane craig makes it clear from other evidence excluding genetics that “humans” as we think of them were living at least that long ago.
Why Do Cains Descendants Show After Flood
One of the constant questions relates to the idea f why we see Cain’s descendants after the flood and even see the Nephilim. The following article can be useful in that discussion.
Session 023: Genesis 6:9 – 8:22: Noah and the Flood – Looking at Bio questions.
Class OverviewClass ResourcesClass Discussion Points
This week will be our last look at the Noah and floor narrative. We will be focusing on the biological aspects of the story. While on one hand you may be thinking, why bother. This is one of the areas that is the most contentious with non-believers. Having a cursory knowledge of some of these concepts will be a value to not only our own knowledge and understanding of the issues at hand, but should also prove beneficial when we have conversations with those that believe that the biological stories in Genesis are problematic.
This week we will discuss how the issues of population and biological diversity play into the biological arguments around the creation story and the Flood narrative.