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		hermitcrab 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competi... There were 8: Noah, his wife, their three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), and their three wives. If so, there must have been a whole of inbreeding in later generations. Aside: The biblical story of the Ark and the flood in ripped off wholesale from Sumerian and Akkadian narratives.

esafak 9 days ago [–]

You mean God sent word to the Sumerians and Akkadians !

hermitcrab 8 days ago | [–]

He also told them the story of Moses being found in the reeds, for them to pass on.

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