THE ATHEIST'S COMPLAINT:
Did Lot's daughters think God had killed every man except Lot? Genesis 19:21-22,30 reveals that they knew God had spared the town of Zoar, but in Genesis 19:31, it appears that they thought Lot was the only man left. Is there a contradiction?

RESPONSE:
It is certain that they knew there were still men in the world. The judgment in Genesis 19 was upon Sodom and Gomorrah, not the whole earth. There were men in Zoar, where Lot and his daughters initially fled to, and indeed, throughout the whole earth.

Verse 30 reads, "And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters." This is the setting for the statement made by Lot's firstborn daughter in the next verse. "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."

Lot's daughter was not saying that there were no men left upon the earth. Realize that Lot, out of fear, had separated himself (and his daughters with him) from civilization. There were no men in the cave where they dwelt, except for their father. Plus, notice from verse 32, his daughters intended to preserve Lot's seed upon the earth. They consciously chose to make their father drunk, that they might lay with him, and perpetuate his name on the earth through offspring.

There is no contradiction here.

This article is a response to Skeptic's Annotated Bible

---