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Why do people cite flood tales from other cultures to add credibility to the biblical flood account?

Bolesik asked: Doesn’t the bible say that everyone, with the exception of Noah and his entourage, was killed in a global flood? If other cultures have a record of the same flood, doesn’t that do more to discredit the biblical account than anything? Tom Z- there was a flood in Reno, Nv 3 years ago. [...] → Continue Reading Why do people cite flood tales from other cultures to add credibility to the biblical flood account?

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Old Man from Scene 24 asked: water damage

Vegetation/plant-life wouldn’t have survived a 150 day flood. All herbivores would’ve died without any vegetation to eat. Even if there were still plant-life around for the herbivores to eat, all the carnivores would only have the two of each surviving animal to eat. So all the herbivores either died from starvation, died from being eaten or both. After all the herbivores have died (which were only two of each) there would’ve been no food left for the carnivores. So how did any animal survive after the flood?

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