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Critics question the plausibility of keeping all land creatures on one 450ft boat, they also question that the world could be repopulated with so few specimens (inbreeding).

Critics question the plausibility of keeping all land creatures on one 450ft boat, they also question that the world could be repopulated with so few specimens (inbreeding).

They point out that none of the civilizations that existed between 3000 B.C. and 2000 B.C. reported a destruction of this scale (most flood stories speak of much earlier dates), but the [[Minoan]] civilization on Crete, was destroyed by volcanic activity and floods around 1450 B.C., leading some historians to believe this was the source of Middle Eastern flood accounts.

They point out that none of the civilizations that existed between 3000 B.C. and 2000 B.C. reported a destruction of this scale (most flood stories speak of much earlier dates), but the [[Minoan]] civilization on Crete, was destroyed by volcanic activity and floods around 1450 B.C., leading some historians to believe this was the source of Middle Eastern flood accounts.  Of course this would not explain world wide flood stories and it should be noted that the Akkadian tablets depicting the Gilgamesh flood story are dated to an earlier time period, about 2000 B.C.

Critics of the global flood suggest that the flood accounts are unrelated accounts of local floods, or stories influenced by the arrival of missionaries.

Critics of the global flood suggest that the flood accounts are unrelated accounts of local floods, or stories influenced by the arrival of missionaries.