Antediluvian
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.35|right|The Creation, beginning of the Antediluvian (i.e., Pre-Flood) world. (Artist's rendition by James Tissot.)
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- Precedents
- Timing the antediluvian period
- The Biblical flood
- In early geology
- The antediluvian world
- Creationist interpretation
- In 19th-century science
- The antediluvian monsters
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thumb|upright=1.35|right|The Creation, beginning of the Antediluvian (i.e., Pre-Flood) world. (Artist's rendition by James Tissot.)
The antediluvian (alternatively pre-diluvian or pre-flood) period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology. The term was coined by Thomas Browne (1605–1682). The narrative takes up chapters 1–6 (excluding the flood narrative) of the Book of Genesis. The term found its way into early geology and science until the late Victorian era. Colloquially, the term is used to refer to any ancient and murky period.
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