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How did the Aboriginal people get to Australia from wherever it was the Noah's Ark landed?
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"Fifty thousand years ago, sea levels were so low that Australia and New Guinea formed a single continent. Humans moved from Southeast Asia onto this landmass, some settling in what is now New Guinea, others traveling farther south into Australia."
How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery
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Same way the Kangaroos got there.
Noah's flood from our perspective would be considered a "local" flood. The Bible is clear that it was Noah's world that was flooded: "Adamah" not the entire Earth "Erets". Current belief using Satalite photos, is that the Garden of Eden is under the Persian Gulf. There are professors at the University of Jerusalem that study the domestication of plants & animals in the Middle East that we read about in our Bible. A lot of study has been done on how farming spread from the Middle East to Europe and the rest of the world from there. The animals on Noah's Ark were domesticated and not wild. Both clean and unclean were preserved. So we do not find any Kangaroos on the Ark because they do not live in the Middle East.
Science has progressed a lot and science gives us a lot of information that helps us to understand the story of Noah that we read in our Bible.
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." (Daniel 12:4)
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The Bible says 8 people came off the ark, so they breed and spread. From the creationist point of view, the flood was global, broke up the landmass and after the flood came an ice age, this also made land bridges so it's possible there could have been a combination of land and sea travel.
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Do you take literally that, after the Flood "whole the earth was completely dry?"
Its obviously not about our planet, but about the middle eastern local land.
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So Noah landed the ark somewhere after the flood about, what, 6000 years ago? Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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More like 60,000 years ago. Biblical genealogies are not complete.
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So the great flood happened 60,000 years ago? I must have everything mixed up. I thought it was 6000 years ago. According to the geneologies in the Bible and such.
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I do not know when exactly. But when we know that Aborigines are in Australia for 50,000 years, then the Noah flood was either not about all humanity, or it was like 60,000 years ago, probably more.
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God landed the ark, not Noah, he was just along for the ride. 
I don't hold fast on 6 thousand years. It could be somewhat longer 6-20 thousand perhaps. I don't really believe in using the Bible as some kind of maths book in working out exact times. To me, that's a bit like the people claiming the Lord will come in X year. I do believe it was some thousands though not millions because I do believe Genesis is literal and that God created over 6 literal days. I do not believe in evolution at all. Frequently here I notice people calling natural selection 'evolution' but that is not what I mean by evolution, to me evolution is the belief that one cell 'evolved' over time into man and that's only what I mean when I use that term.
It's possible some time went passed between Genisis verse 1 to verse 2. I don't believe in evolution or anything that says there was one creation and then another. But I do know that the Bible says 1 day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to God so I am not discounting some time may have taken place there, maybe, maybe not.
I don't hold fast on 6 thousand years. It could be somewhat longer 6-20 thousand perhaps. I don't really believe in using the Bible as some kind of maths book in working out exact times. To me, that's a bit like the people claiming the Lord will come in X year. I do believe it was some thousands though not millions because I do believe Genesis is literal and that God created over 6 literal days. I do not believe in evolution at all. Frequently here I notice people calling natural selection 'evolution' but that is not what I mean by evolution, to me evolution is the belief that one cell 'evolved' over time into man and that's only what I mean when I use that term.
It's possible some time went passed between Genisis verse 1 to verse 2. I don't believe in evolution or anything that says there was one creation and then another. But I do know that the Bible says 1 day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to God so I am not discounting some time may have taken place there, maybe, maybe not.
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No we don't 'know' that, we are shown that from certain dating methods, and people choose to believe it. This only works if you assume those dating methods are correct, which I don't believe they are. God told us that the world and its laws changed radically at the fall and it also changed again at the flood. These two events I believe throw off man's attempts at ageing. You know the aborigines like many older civilizations have a global flood story?
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Hi emmylouwho,
That's a question for which God doesn't give us an answer. The actual 'how' all people got scattered all over the earth. What we do know is that Adam gave his wife the name 'Eve' because she would be the mother of all mankind. So, we can rest assured that however, mankind got scattered all over the face of the earth, we each and everyone of us have Eve as our mother back in that line somewhere.
I think that @Mathetes66 likely gave the best general answer that the Scriptures give us as to how mankind spread about the earth, but as to specific locales all over the earth, I don't think the Scriptures answer that.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
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