Creationists claim it was caused by the flood described in the Book of Genesis.

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It shows that 45% of Americans take the Human Origins story in the Book of Genesis literally.

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It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us.

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Johan Huibers, a wealthy businessman, used the ancient measurement of the cubit -- the length of a man's arm from elbow to fingertips -- to build the vessel to the dimensions specified in the book of Genesis.

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"It was a combination of remembering my own childhood and thinking about gifts I'd been given, " she said in an interview last week at her husband's downtown Manhattan design firm, explaining the genesis of the latest book.

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