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Line 95: − − 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. 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. Line 105:
Line 101: − − In general a global flood, several thousand years ago does not correspond with mainstream geology and biology.
→Criticisms: Remove criticism that more properly belongs under Flood Geology (which dating-related objections do) than this article
''See also criticism in [[Noah's Ark#Controversy|Noah's Ark]] and [[Flood Geology#Controversy|Flood Geology]].
''See also criticism in [[Noah's Ark#Controversy|Noah's Ark]] and [[Flood Geology#Controversy|Flood Geology]].
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.
And Murray Adamthwaite responds regarding the missionary influence, "''...that explanation fails since in many cases secular anthropologists gathered the stories before missionaries reached these tribes with the Gospel. In other cases missionaries have related how they indeed told the story of Noah, only to find that the tribal folk already had a similar tale in their own legends.''"<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2538 Animals, a Deluge and Noah’s Ark]</ref>
And Murray Adamthwaite responds regarding the missionary influence, "''...that explanation fails since in many cases secular anthropologists gathered the stories before missionaries reached these tribes with the Gospel. In other cases missionaries have related how they indeed told the story of Noah, only to find that the tribal folk already had a similar tale in their own legends.''"<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2538 Animals, a Deluge and Noah’s Ark]</ref>
== Modern explanations ==
== Modern explanations ==