• All people on Earth (and all animals) drowned except the eight in Noah's family and the mammals God told Noah to take aboard the Ark.

• It is believed that all of humanity is the descendant of Noah and his family, consisting of only eight members.

• All the animals, as well as the human race, are descendants of the Ark.

• Noah, like Moses, had to have been knowledgeable of the entire Biblical past from the beginning of God's creation up to the time of the voyage on the Ark.

There is no evidence that his knowledge was in written documents.
Did he have manuscripts on the Ark? We don't know.

It is most probable that all stories and traditions were passed down from Adam and Eve through each generation orally.

The assumption is that all Biblical history, knowledge, and traditions were passed down orally to Moses through the ancestry of Noah after the great flood.

We can only speculate, as the earliest known written artifact found dates back to 3500 BC.

• So, the theory is that the creation story would have been passed down orally through the generations of Adam's descendants to Noah, and then from Noah's descendants to Moses, who put them in writing.

• Noah was born approximately 700 years after the creation of Adam.
  There would have been at least 700 years of oral pass down from Adam to Noah.
  The lineage was Adam, Seth, Methuselah, Lemech, and Noah.
  Lemech was Noah's father. Methuselah was Noah's grandfather. Seth was Noah's fifth grandfather. Adam was the sixth grandfather.

• This oral pass-down is believed because no ancient documents were found that were written before the existence of Moses.

• It is a common belief that written language did not exist before Moses.

• Another theory is that God told Moses about ancient times, from the time of the Creation to the Exodus, when Moses talked with God and the Angels on Mount Sinai.

• How are we to know?
  This is where it takes faith to believe the documents of Moses, to be real, true, and authentic.
   

No matter the method, Moses had to have gotten this information somehow to write about it.

• If stories were passed down orally, how accurate were the 1600 years of oral tradition from Creation until the Flood?

• I remember in grade school, the teacher whispered something into the ear of the student near the right side of her desk.
  She whispered it to the student beside her.

  The whisper went around the room until it ended up at the last student, in the room near the left side of her desk.
  Of course, you know the outcome of this little demonstration.

• Instead of the dog getting a treat from the youngest boy in the family for doing good tricks, the young boy got a dog from his family because he didn't play tricks on his family and was a good boy.

• There were 22 students in the class.
  That's only twenty-two renditions of the story.

• How many renditions are there in 1600 years?
  One would expect an entirely different story after 1600 years of being passed down.
  But the amazing thing is that the story has not changed.

• Writing documents accurately is one thing.

• Telling a story orally for 1600 years without variations is something else.

• Just thought-provoking.

• Something is amiss when putting the Bible creation up against the science creation.

• It always comes down to putting faith in the Bible or the scientific community. Which is real? Maybe neither.

• However, we must recognize that the scientific community has been slowly but continuously proving the Bible over the past 100 years.