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TE has a problem with a global flood. The Bible tells us “All flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.” ( Gen 7:21-23).

See Beliefs re The Flood for the reasons John Thomas and Robert Roberts both "had a problem with a global flood". Either reason is sufficient; together they are conclusive — neither reason was advanced as special pleading for evolution, and they date from two generations before the scientific understanding of plate tectonics and the genome justified their "problems with a global flood" and made evolution certain. (Click here if you dare.) This does not mean that we should reject the Bible, but it does help us to read Genesis correctly.

Those persuaded of Genetic Diversity from an evolutionary perspective fail to accept the global flood, considering Genesis 9:19 to be untenable on the basis there is not enough time from when the 8 emerged from the ark to generate enough diversity from around 4,340 years ago. Gen 9/19 says, “These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.”

"fail to accept the global flood?" Excuse my cart, the horse is coming later. Re "Gen 9/19", maybe someone will put a few translations of Genesis 9:19 into the wiki. For now, I'll just point out that (1) it doesn't say that when Noah's family arrived all over the land/earth/world, they found it uninhabited; and (2) quibbling footnotes to say that there actually were people living there already (Nephilim perhaps) would be inappropriate to the genre. See at Genesis 6:4.