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The science of ethnology and anthropology have shown that every single racial type that
existed prior to the Flood existed after it. This proves that the Flood was confined to specific geo-
graphical areas. All people on earth were not destroyed by the Flood as many claim. In Luke
17:26-29 (as we have seen before) Yeshua likens the "days of Noah" with the "days of Lot." In
each case the people experienced a catastrophe which "destroyed them all." Yet everyone ac-
knowledges the fact that "in the days of Lot" all the people on earth WERE NOT destroyed -- only
all the people IN SODOM were. Likewise, only all the people in the Flood were destroyed --
NOT all the people on earth.

It cannot be supported by any rational or biblical means that all races were destroyed by a
flood and then instantaneously reappeared or were formed thereafter. It is infinitely more logical
that all races were separately created by YEHOVAH on the planet, and they each survived the
Flood, as did numerous other life forms, by being outside its realm and geographical influence.

The Line of Tubal-Cain

Aside from the traditions of survivors of the Flood in lands around the world however, and
the Biblical account of Noah and his family, there is certain evidence within the book of Genesis
itself that strongly implies there were other survivors. In chapters 4 and 5 we find mentioned TWO
family lines that descended from Adam. The line of which Noah was a part is as follows: Adam,
Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mehalelel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, and his three sons --
Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now the OTHER line is: Adam, Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methushael,
Lamech and his three sons -- JABAL, JUBAL and TUBAL-CAIN. Writes Woodrow --

The Bible gives a detailed account concerning the descendants of Noah's three sons after the flood (Gene-
sis 10). But what became of the descendants of the three sons in the OTHER line -- Jabal, Jubal, and
Tubal-cain? Those who believe the flood was universal must conclude that all of these were drowned. But
this presents a problem, for the writer of Genesis (who lived long AFTER the flood) refers to the descen-
dants of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain as STILL LIVING AT THE TIME HE WROTE! (Noah's Flood,
Joshua's Long Day, and Lucifer's Fall, pp. 53-54).

Notice Genesis 4:20-22: "And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell
[present tense] in tents and have [present tense] livestock. His brother's name was Jubal. He was
the father of all who play [present tense] the harp and flute. And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-
Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron."

Please note that the writer says these people "dwell" (not dwelled) in tents, and that they
"have" (not had) livestock. They "play" (not played) the harp. And "every craftsman in bronze and
iron" implies post-flood artisans -- there is no great evidence of bronze and iron use before the
flood. Had they all been drowned in the flood, this wording would not be correct. As The Inter-
preter's Bible plainly states, they were "nomads, musicians, and metal workers EXISTING AT
THE TIME OF WRITING [of Genesis]." Hasting's Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics adds
that this wording implies "an UNBROKEN history of civilization" and that the writer of this sec-
tion of Genesis did not, obviously, regard the flood as "a universal Deluge."

It is more than interesting to postulate that these descendants of Cain -- who had migrated
EAST from the Garden of Eden -- had by the time of Noah populated a different region from that of
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