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Hi, I have some quick notes regarding the Bible verses referenced as far as the supposed contradiction in Genesis. The difference in days is not about Flood duration - the first verse describes how long it rained, while the second verse describes how long water stayed on the earth. Also the first verse on pairs is a simple instruction that every single animal taken must be capable of reproducing post-Flood, and therefore each will come in pairs. God delves into specifics in the later verses. As far as the raven vs. dove scenario, the notion that it has to be one or the other is a complete construct. The detail here about the raven flying back and forth over the earth is simply a clarifying detail to make it clear why it never returned. Cline seems to infer via an atheistic worldview that the raven had to return in order for author of Genesis to know what it did after leaving. But the Bible is held to be divinely inspired - so in order to refute the Bible's claim about the Flood using this logic, one has to assume that God is not real and could not have given this knowledge to the Genesis writer through a supernatural connection.