Hi, and welcome to the Scriptures are real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about things in the scriptures that make them become more real to us.

And sometimes topics where we're asking these questions because they are so real to us,

because we believe that there's more power to be drawn into our lives when the scriptures are real.

And we believe there's real power in the scriptures that they were given to us by the Lord,

to invite the spirit into our

life and to help us in our journey to be with him again and to be more like him. I'm your host,

Kerry Milstein. And today we're doing an extra podcast. It's an extra shortcast, so both extra

short and a short cast. This is just in response to some questions I've been getting from some people, some of our listeners,

and where this is coming out kind of late in the week, but I hope people will find it and find it

useful as we answer a couple of questions. So one of those questions has to do with where some of

this happened and when some of it happened. And the answer is we don't know. We assume

that Noah started off somewhere in the Americas just because as members of the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints, we believe that Garden of Eden was somewhere in Central, North America, so Missouri area, something along those around there, Garden of Eden was somewhere in Central North America, so Missouri area, something along

those around there, Garden of Eden and Noah, I mean, Adam and his family spread out from there.

Now, they could have spread very far and very wide, but they start out there.

Now, who knows how far they get? And there are all sorts of questions about was the earth all

one continent,

and then you get continental drift where they separate and is it the flood that caused that?

There's some evidence for that. We'll look at that here in just a minute, but possibly I'll have to

say, I don't know, but that's interesting speculation. But I would guess at least a lot of mankind

lives there somewhere near where Adam started out. But I would guess at least a lot of mankind lives there somewhere near where

Adam started out. But Noah, by the end of the flood, is going to end up as far as we can tell

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