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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040322
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Byline: PETER PATERSON

Noah's Ark (BBC 1); The Extraordinary Voyage Of Jules Verne (BBC 2)

STRANGE, really, that in rubbishing the biblical story of Noah's Ark last night, Jeremy Bowen failed to mention one fact that would arouse anyone's doubts even before they considered the likelihood of the rest of the tale.

For according to the Book of Genesis, chapter seven, verse six, Noah was a quite incredible 600 years old when God sent the Flood upon the face of the earth. Or to be more precise, he was 599, for the scripture records that he was in his 600th year when it ...

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