“Greek and Roman authors, particularly Hesiod and ovid, Chinese authors and others, note that small groups of men and animals survived the flood on high places and on anything which could float for a year. I do not see an essential contradiction between this and the biblical account. Noah’s descendants were probably unaware of anybody else surviving and wrote the story that way.”
Well, if you just view the Old Testament as a collection of stories that the Hebrews wrote down, then it might not be contradictory. However, if the OT is the inspired Word of God, then it certainly is a contradiction. Even if Noah wouldn’t know about other survivors, God would, and the authoritative statements to the contrary would then be lies. So, either there were no other survivors, or the book is not the Word of God.
Also, I don’t think multiple groups of survivors match up with the DNA evidence. The distribution of Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA types matches up a bottleneck of just one lineage of males with three lineages of females, just as we see with Noah’s three sons and their three wives.
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“Also, I don’t think multiple groups of survivors match up with the DNA evidence. The distribution of Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA types matches up a bottleneck of just one lineage of males with three lineages of females, just as we see with Noah’s three sons and their three wives.”
I haven’t heard of this theory. Do you have a link?
Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward
If God actively protected the Bible then the NIB wouldn't contain the horrible mistranslation of Isaiah 30:26 which it does. Not that there aren't parts of the Bible which are literally true, most of it is...
“The distribution of Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA types matches up a bottleneck of just one lineage of males with three lineages of females ...”
That is true, but the date is around 72,000-74,000 BC with the eruption of the supervolcano Mt. Toba. (Indonesia).