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So while there is evidence of a catastrophe that ended the last Ice Age and could have caused Noah's flood, genetic studies put Noah further back (from Is the Truth Out There?: Why do genetic studies trace the first human woman to about 60,000-50,000 years ago and the first man to 47,000-35,000 B.C? Perhaps Genesis has the answer. In the account of Noah and the flood, all men on board the ark were blood related, the women were not. So the most recent common ancestor of the men would be Noah. The women could trace their common ancestor to Eve (see Chapter 13 for more on these studies) a few thousand years earlier.... So what about the Ice Age event then? The Bible talks about it too: Does the Bible contain any other possible references to this past? In Genesis 10:25 there is a brief, enigmatic reference to Peleg’s day as the time “earth was divided.” Does this refer to the final collapse of the land bridges at the end of the last Ice Age?

In Plato's Republic, Solon got the information from the high priest of Egypt. The main casualty was the entire continent of Atlantis. After this blow, poles shifted and ice came and left. The survivors huddled in caves.

Point is Satan lied and mankind died. Nothing has changed under the sun. We must serve God not Satan.

I’m about as far from the current oceans as you can be- in the middle of the US , (KS) where they have uncovered huge prehistoric fish fossils- 2-3 thousand feet above sea level. I’m about 1000 feet above sea level and there are all kinds of sea creature fossils here in the limestone underlaying the soil.

Literalists generally have a hard time with dinosaurs and extinct mammals that predate the time frame for Noah’s flood.

I am a literalist who believes that there have been other ages on the planet, and other cataclysmic events ( at least one other worldwide flood) meteor strikes, etc.

Nepthalim (sp?), dinosaurs, etc. all had their time. The Biblical account picks up about 7000 years ago, with the 1st man created with an eternal spirit in the current conflict.

Not well worded, I know, but I have yet to see any science which causes me to even slightly doubt the Word of God.