So after God sent the flood and Noah and his family were saved how did civilization begin again.
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I would not rule out incest, but then with any religious writings there is no way every detail has been recorded so there is no way to varify anything. In a religious standpoint God created man so nothing there to say he didn't make more.
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Good question. The answer is that there was no worldwide flood. There is no geological evidence of a worldwide flood. Therefore, this is - at best - an allegorical/metaphorical tale used to illustrate a point. The dimensions of the ark are impossible to reconcile with all animals getting on it. How did they all enter in the self-same day? What did the carnivores eat on the vessel, or - for that matter - the herbivores? After the world had been flooded for so many days, what did they eat after they got off the ark? If the carnivores ate the herbivores, there would have been mass extinction (if there was, this further complicates my first 2 sentences of this paragraph). What about the fish? They would have died. All fish require specific PH and salinity levels (just to start on their required water chemistry). Both freshwater and marine fish/life would have died. Well, I could continue, but suffice it to say that there was no worldwide flood.
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I am Christian, but I don't think that really happened. I think it's a parable. Besides, how would he get the thousands/millions of different animals in the world - especially the ones not native to his region- gathered up and into a boat? And why the hell did he let the rats and roaches in? If I were him I'd only pick the animals I'd deemed worthy of saving. Lots would have been turned away, like immigrants at Ellis Island. But, like I said, I don't believe it anyway.
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This answer is found in God's Word, the Bible. Noah had three sons, Japheth, Shem, and Ham. These three sons were grown and married when the divine instructions were given to Noah to build an ark. It is through these people that the earth was repopulated. The prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jesus Christ as well as the apostles Peter and Paul all spoke of God’s servant Noah. Noah’s days are shown by Jesus and Peter to be prophetic of “the presence of the Son of man” and a future “day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men.” Jehovah, in sparing Noah and his family when he destroyed that wicked world, was “setting a pattern for ungodly persons of things to come.”—2Pe 3:5-7; 2:5, 6; “By faith Noah, after being given divine warning of things not yet beheld, showed godly fear and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; and through this faith he condemned the world, and he became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.”—Heb 11:7; 12:1.
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Since your answer is specifically about civilization rather than repopulation of the world or the spread of plants and animals, I'll just answer that specifically. Noah and his sons and presumably their lives lived incredibly long lives both before and after the flood. This gave them the time to learn their entire culture and to teach it to their descendants. When those descendants moved to Mesopotamia and their languages separated beneath the tower of Babel, they could no longer live together (think Yugoslavia, which had seven languages and could only be held together by a dictatorship) and started a dozen or so civilizations in different places, all with a religion based on astrology.
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Civilization was not destroyed in the first place. The Holy Qur’an (HQ) coming from the same source as what is sound in the Bible but coming much later confirms or corrects, as appropriate, what is in the Bible. According to the two verses of the HQ, 7:63 and 64, it was those who rejected the warnings delivered by Noah who were destroyed, meaning that the flooding was localized. That being so there was no need for Noah to begin civilization all over again. The verses say, “Marvel ye that there should come unto you a Reminder from your Lord by means of a man among you, that he may warn you, and that ye may keep from evil, and that haply ye may find mercy. But they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship, and We drowned those who denied Our token Lo! they were blind folk.” Translated from the original HQ text by Mr Pickthall.
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Hey, Noah and his wife were locked up in that damn ark for a mighty long time and without so much as a TV. A man and a woman can't live on religion alone, you know?
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Repeat after me: M-E-T-A-P-H-O-R! ;-)
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just like before SCIENCE
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I do not believe the flood (of Noah) was global. The word that is translated as Earth should be ground. In the Strong's that is one of the excepted translation of the word. --- 776. erets common, country, earth, field, ground, land, nations, way, From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world. http://strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/776.htm
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you know, humptydumpty... birds and bees and all that...
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