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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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Contents
Science and the Bible
Science and the Bible
Archaeology and the Bible
Summary: Sectarian critics who accept the Bible, but not the Book of Mormon, sometimes claim that the Bible has been "proven" or "confirmed" by archaeology, and insist that the same cannot be said for the Book of Mormon.Flood, global or local
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- REDIRECTThe Creation