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If only Noah's family was the only family that existed after the flood how do we exist? Are we all related?


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Learning just like you.

It is certainly possible that all races we see today trace back to on family that repopulated the earth, starting at around the arguable biblical date of 3000-4000 years ago.  However, there are many objections to this claim, each of which must be examined individually.  Objections like:

1.  Could all of the races come from one family?

You can check out this defense of the biblical position - Where Did all the Races Come from?

In that article, they claim that the differences between the races are not that great, and Noah's family did not just include his own descendants, but his son's wives, who were from other families.

 2.  Does genetic ancestry research back up such a claim?

In Roots of Human Family Tree Are Remarkably Shallow, the author discusses how modern genetic statistics support the idea that we are quite possibly all related through one modern ancestor about 5000 years ago.  

Allowing very little migration, Rohde's simulation produced a date of about 5,000 B.C. for humanity's most recent common ancestor. Assuming a higher, but still realistic, migration rate produced a shockingly recent date of around 1 A.D.

Of course, a Stanford University study indicates that our common ancestor is farther back (70,000 years), but the idea of a common ancestor is certainly supported by science.  

 3.  Other things

You may be interested to read Noah and Human Etymology, which disucsses the similarities in language, esp. how Noah's name was carried across cultures. 


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Technically, if this was really true, then I guess we are all related. But, as far as biblical tales go, this might be yet another nice story to tell :-)


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I was late for work this morning, because I got stuck in Zeno's paradox

The entire book of Genesis should be treated as an allegory, and nothing more


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You seem to mix up an old legend with actual history.

In the story, Noah's family was the only human survivors of the flood. In real life, the human race (homo-sapiens) is around for more than 100,000 years, successor to earlier humanoids.

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first we can know that we are related to each other even before noah (adam and eve)

and i f ppl say its not true (the torah but it is true)som1 had to start  with 1 woman i dont think a lot of ppl came to the world and also a human being cant create a human being with himself he needss something above him(god)to do that.


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According to Genesis, yes, we are all descendents of Noah's family. The division of people came later at the tower of Babel (Gen 11).  The fact that Genesis is God's inspired Word to us is adequate proof that Genesis is an accurate and reliable historical record.


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