The Flood
The Flood of Noah’s day (2348 BC) was a year-long global catastrophe that destroyed the pre-Flood world, reshaped the continents, buried billions of creatures, and laid down the rock layers. It was God’s judgment on man’s wickedness and only eight righteous people, and representatives of every kind of land animal, were spared aboard the Ark.
Was Noah’s Flood Global?
Did Noah experience a local flood which left only a few sediment layers, as floods do today? God’s record is clear: the water covered the entire globe and killed all the animals on earth. Such unique conditions are the only way to explain worldwide fossil-bearing layers thousands of feet deep.
Local Floods Help Us Understand Noah’s Flood Geology
Geologists repeatedly discover the catastrophic effects of local flooding on the earth’s surface, resulting in the same conclusion each time: that substantial amounts of water can have the same geological effect in a short period of time (even laying down rock layers) that hypothesized millions of years of slow water flow would have.
Noah Did More than Build an Ark
Like people today, almost certainly the people of Noah’s day were busy enjoying the pleasures of life and did not believe or care that judgment was coming. In 2 Peter 2:5, Noah is described as a “preacher of righteousness
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Psalm 104 and the Flood
Psalm 104:6–9 sheds important additional light on the geological effects of the Flood. “The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them” (vs. 8).
The Flood Topics
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Catastrophism
Are current, slow geologic processes the key to understanding earth’s past, or was history marked by a global, earth-shaping catastrophe?
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Flood Legends
Flood legends abound globally across many distinct cultures. These legends point to the reality of the global Flood and the integrity of the account in Genesis.
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Global Flood
Was the Genesis Flood merely a localized event or was it a global catastrophe that judged and destroyed the world of that time?
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Ice Age
How should the Ice Age, glaciers, and wooly mammoths be understood within the framework of the Bible’s history?
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Thinking Outside the Box
The purpose of the articles in this series is to raise ideas about Noah, his world, the Ark, and the Flood in ways that most people have not considered before.
Articles About The Flood
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April 18, 2018 from Feedback
Where is all that water [from the Flood] now? Our planet is covered in 70% water, so the water from the Flood is still here, making up our oceans!
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March 18, 2018 from Answers Magazine
According to God’s Word, the great Flood of Noah’s day was the most devastating catastrophe in history. Noah’s Flood ripped apart the earth. We’re not talking about boulders but whole mountains. In some places, slabs the size of cities slid dozens of miles in minutes.
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Jan. 1, 2017 from Answers Magazine
What evidence do we see that a global Flood devastated the earth’s surface during Noah’s day—on a scale unlike anything we see today?
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BlogThe Purpose of the FloodNov. 21, 2016
As Christians we need to consider the account of the Flood (and other judgement passages) in light of what the Bible states about God and humanity.
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Sept. 4, 2016 from Answers Magazine
People often refer to rock layers as though the earth is made of solid rock, impervious to water. Thankfully, this isn’t true.
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Technical Research PaperThe Last Week before the FloodAug. 17, 2016 from Answers Research Journal
While attempting to elucidate the general chronological profile of the events of the first week, we hope to answer two specific significant questions.
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July 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Some Christians claim Noah’s Flood was local, and it doesn’t really matter what we believe about it. Does this view hold water?
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July 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
We’ve always heard that oil and water don’t mix, but sometimes water and water don’t mix.
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June 28, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Animals can show up in the oddest places and make evolutionists scratch their heads as is the case with the newly discovered monkey fossils.
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May 8, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Misunderstandings are on full display when it comes to the biblical account of the Flood. Are you guilty of any of these ten common misconceptions?
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Magazine Department ArticleOcean Full of CommotionJan. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
The timing could not be better for AiG’s new VBS for 2016—Ocean Commotion!
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Nov. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
The Flood is impossible because one of the Grand Canyon’s layers was deposited in a desert. Or so evolutionists claim. Do the facts back them up?
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Aug. 22, 2015 from Answers Magazine
These beautiful bows remind me of my parents’ teaching of what the Bible says about God’s purpose in giving us the rainbow.
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Feedback: “Bill Nye the Straw Man Guy” RebuttalAug. 4, 2015
We do not reject any evidence that is found, whether it is an ancient tool or fossilized bones. What we often reject are the interpretations of this data.
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Technical Research PaperHow Long Did the Flood Last?May 13, 2015 from Answers Research Journal
Belief that the Flood lasted 371 days is common among recent creationists, but there are other possibilities.
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Technical Research PaperPhysical Difficulties with Hugh Ross’ Local Flood ModelApril 15, 2015 from Answers Research Journal
There are at least three problems with Hugh Ross’ local flood model which render it physically impossible. This is in addition to numerous biblical issues.
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Technical Research PaperCan One Astronomically Date the Flood within the Hydroplate Model?April 1, 2015 from Answers Research Journal
Dr. Danny Faulkner analyzes Dr. Walt Brown’s determination of the date of the Flood within his hydroplate model using the orbits of two comets.
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March 5, 2015 from The New Answers Book 3
Have you ever been “tongue-tied” when asked to provide geologic evidence that the Genesis Flood really did occur, just as the Bible describes?
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More Than One Language Before the Flood?Sept. 15, 2014 from Thinking Outside the Box
We know mankind had one language after the Flood, before God confused the languages at Babel. Could other languages have formed prior to Noah’s Flood?
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Book ChapterHow Could Fish Survive the Genesis Flood?June 16, 2014 from The New Answers Book 3
God only brought to the Ark representatives of all the created kinds of air-breathing, land-dwelling creatures. How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive?
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April 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Who cares about the details of the Flood? This flippant attitude opened the door for attacks on the historicity of Genesis.
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April 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Genesis records the details of the Flood in a sequence we would not expect. That’s for a reason.
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Magazine Department ArticleChronology CheckJan. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Are dominant views about Flood chronology true to Scripture?
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Dec. 12, 2012 from Answers Magazine
Geologists are uncovering evidence that meteors struck the earth throughout the Flood. Could they even have played a role in starting the Flood?
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Semi-Technical Research PaperHow Did Plants Survive the Flood?Oct. 10, 2012 from Answers in Depth
Many critics of the Genesis account of history scoff at the idea of plants and seeds lasting for a year in fresh and salt water, therefore discounting the biblical account of the Flood.
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National Trust Caves to Pressure at CausewayOct. 6, 2012 from News to Know
National Trust caves in to pressure at the Causeway.
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Book ChapterTimes of RecessionApril 24, 2012 from Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions: Volume 2
Critics assert that two different dates are given for when the earth was dry after the global Flood. Michael Belknap, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Technical Research PaperNumerical Simulations of Hypercanes Charley and Fay in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico over a Warm OceanFeb. 29, 2012 from Answers Research Journal
Two tropical cyclones were simulated with the NCAR WRF model to determine if warm sea-surface temperatures would cause them to intensify into hypercanes and follow similar storm tracks as the origin
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New Technique Reveals Oceanic Evidence For the FloodOct. 22, 2011 from News to Know
Abruptness of ancient oceanic alterations fit the Flood.
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Technical Research PaperA Well-Watered Land: Numerical Simulations of a Hypercyclone in the Middle EastApril 13, 2011 from Answers Research Journal
A hypercyclone was simulated over the Arabian Sea to test enhanced precipitation over the Middle East and explain evidence for greater vegetation in the past.
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Semi-Technical Magazine ArticleDid Mercury Poisoning Create a Toxic Flood?April 1, 2010 from Answers Magazine
Wouldn’t the destructive forces of Noah’s Flood have released so much mercury into the environment that it would poison everything and make life impossible?
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Semi-Technical Research PaperDid Atlantis Exist?March 3, 2010 from Answers in Depth
Atlantis has been the focus of much conjecture for thousands of years. If it did exist, what can we learn from the biblical account?
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Psalm 104:6-9—the Flood or Day Three of Creation Week?July 28, 2009
Old-earth creationists such as Hugh Ross claim Psalm 104:6–9 refers to the Creation Week, but a closer look shows otherwise.
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Technical Research PaperChalk and “Upper Cretaceous” Deposits are Part of the Noachian FloodMarch 25, 2009 from Answers Research Journal
Certain features of the “Upper Cretaceous” period correspond closely with the biblical account of the Noachian Flood around day 150, and uniformitarian explanations for “chalk” are inadequate.
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Technical Research PaperGreen River Formation Very Likely Did Not Form in a Postdiluvial LakeSept. 24, 2008 from Answers Research Journal
The uniformitarians believe that the couplets in the Green River Formation are varves, but evidence militates against this interpretation
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Death Valley Stream Shows Range of Geological ChangesFeb. 2, 2008
Amid the otherworldly Death Valley of California, geologists are seeing a 1941 stream diversion carve out the land before their very eyes.
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Dec. 26, 2007 from Answers Magazine
This is a series of articles explaining the evidences from geology for the Genesis Flood.
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Magazine Department ArticleA Thai to the FloodOct. 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine
A giant oyster shell found on land is yet another reminder of the global Flood.
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TechnicalThe Flood Accounts
It is important to compare the differences in these two flood accounts in order to examine their relationship.
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Book ChapterWoolly Mammoths—Flood or Ice Age?Oct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
There is plenty of evidence that the woolly mammoths in Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon and almost all other surficial sites in the Northern Hemisphere died after the Flood.
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Book ChapterThe Genesis Flood Caused the Ice AgeOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
The two ingredients required for an Ice Age, cool temperatures and tons of snow, were dramatically fulfilled immediately after the Genesis flood.
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Book ChapterThe SnowblitzOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
The Genesis flood provides the two ingredients necessary for an ice age. From this point on we can use basic meteorology to estimate the storm patterns and where ice sheets would develop.
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Semi-Technical Research PaperFlood/Post-Flood Boundaries Within the Global Stratigraphical RecordDec. 1, 2003, pp. 52–55
John Reed and I presented the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin as an example where several vertical kilometres of sedimentary strata were deposited.
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Feedback ArticleHow Did Fish Survive Noah’s Flood?Feb. 26, 2001 from Feedback
This week's positive feedback is from L.N. of the USA, who receives the AiG-U.S. Weekly News.
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Semi-Technical Research PaperFlood ModelsDec. 1, 2000, pp. 79–80
We did not, and do not, propose that 'most of the fossils found on the earth were buried by post-Flood catastrophes'.
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Semi-Technical Research PaperMcIntosh, Taylor and Edmondson Reply to Flood ModelsDec. 1, 2000, pp. 80–82
From our perspective, the fossil record into the Cretaceous and further, testifies strongly to God's act of judgment on this world.
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Semi-Technical Research PaperFlood Models: The Need for an Integrated ApproachApril 1, 2000, pp. 52–59
Any scientific understanding of the Biblical Flood must address the hydrology and sedimentation that occurred during the Flood and in subsequent years as the Earth settled down.
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Semi-Technical Research PaperResponse to Faulkner’s ‘Biblically-Based Cratering Theory’April 1, 2000, pp. 46–49
Argument for an impact bombardment event surrounding the Flood that began with the onset of the Flood and continued for some time, trailing off into the post-Flood period.
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Technical Research PaperEvidence for a Late Cainozoic Flood/Post-Flood BoundaryApril 1, 1996, pp. 128–167
Geologic evidence of the Middle East and the globe, combined with Scripture, indicates that the Flood/post-Flood boundary is very late in the Cainozoic.
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