In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wondered why the natives of North America had taken rattlesnakes with them, but not horses: "How America abounded with Beasts of prey and noxious Animals, yet contained not in that necessary Creature, a Horse, is very strange".
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By the eighth edition (1853–1860), the encyclopedia said of the Noah story, "The insuperable difficulties connected with the belief that all other existing species of animals were provided for in the ark are obviated by adopting the suggestion of Bishop Stillingfleet, approved by Matthew Poole...and others, that the Deluge did not extend beyond the region of the Earth then inhabited".
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His views were supported by other English clergymen and naturalists at the time, including the influential Adam Sedgwick, but by 1830 Sedgwick considered that the evidence only showed local floods.
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In 1823, William Buckland interpreted geological phenomena as Reliquiae Diluvianae: relics of the flood which "attested the action of a universal deluge".
Genesis | Book of Genesis | Genesis (band) | Sega Genesis | flood | Genesis P-Orridge | narrative | First-person narrative | Neon Genesis Evangelion | Henry Flood | Johnstown Flood | Flood | flash flood | Pamela Flood | North Sea flood of 1953 | National Flood Insurance Program | 1997 Red River Flood | Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) | Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan | Narrative mode | Narrative | Liam Flood | Great Flood of 1862 | "Gentleman" Liam Flood | Génesis Rodríguez | Flood Control Act of 1944 | Flood Control Act | first-person narrative | Willamette Valley Flood of 1996 | Whitcomb and Morris' flood geology |
The film shows a humorous version of four episodes of Genesis: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood and the Tower of Babel, also Abraham appears very briefly at the end.