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You're listening to episode 176 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about Noah's Ark and the Great Flood.

I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy. Howdy Dom.

Genesis contains the famous account of Noah, the Ark, and the Great Flood.

But like many passages in the Bible, this text can be understood in more than one way,

so it's helpful to look at them from the perspective of reason.

So what does scientific and historical evidence suggest about the interpretation of the passage?

Was there a worldwide flood? Was Noah a historical person?

And how should we understand this biblical text?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world.

So Jimmy, what do we need to say before we begin?

Well, this is part two of a patron's episode, our patron Andrew Kirk requested the topic of

the Great Flood and he's getting two episodes for his request because I didn't want to short

change this. If you haven't heard our previous episode, it was devoted to the faith perspective

on the flood narrative and this week we'll be looking at the flood narrative from the reason

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