The Flood

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.”

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?

Articles About The Flood

• More Than One Language Before the Flood?

  Sept. 15, 2014

  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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  How 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?

• Magazine Article

  Details Matter

  March 13, 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.

• Magazine Article

  Making the Most of the Message

  March 13, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  Genesis records the details of the Flood in a sequence we would not expect. That’s for a reason.

• Magazine Department Article

  Chronology Check

  Dec. 30, 2013 from Answers Magazine

  Are dominant views about Flood chronology true to Scripture?

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Did Meteors Trigger Noah’s Flood?

  

  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?

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  How 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.

• National Trust Caves to Pressure at Causeway

  Oct. 6, 2012 from News to Know

  National Trust caves in to pressure at the Causeway.

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  Times of Recession

  April 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.

• Technical Research Paper

  Numerical Simulations of Hypercanes Charley and Fay in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico over a Warm Ocean

  Feb. 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 Flood

  Oct. 22, 2011 from News to Know

  Abruptness of ancient oceanic alterations fit the Flood.

• Technical Research Paper

  A Well-Watered Land: Numerical Simulations of a Hypercyclone in the Middle East

  April 13, 2011, pp. 55–74

  A hypercyclone was simulated over the Arabian Sea to determine if precipitation could be enhanced over the Middle East and explain evidence for greater vegetation in the past.

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• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Did Mercury Poisoning Create a Toxic Flood?

  March 21, 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?

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Did 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?

• Psalm 104:6-9—the Flood or Day 3 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.

• Technical Research Paper

  Chalk and “Upper Cretaceous” Deposits are Part of the Noachian Flood

  March 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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• Magazine Article

  Taking Back the Rainbow

  

  Nov. 11, 2008 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.

• Technical Research Paper

  Green River Formation Very Likely Did Not Form in a Postdiluvial Lake

  Sept. 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 Changes

  Feb. 2, 2008

  Amid the otherworldly Death Valley of California, geologists are seeing a 1941 stream diversion carve out the land before their very eyes.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Geologic Evidences for the Genesis Flood

  Dec. 26, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  This is a series of articles explaining the evidences from geology for the Genesis Flood.

• Magazine Article

  A Thai to the Flood

  Oct. 22, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  A giant oyster shell found on land is yet another reminder of the global Flood.

• Technical

  The Flood Accounts

  Aug. 3, 2005 from A Comparative Study of the Flood Accounts in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis

  It is important to compare the differences in these two flood accounts in order to examine their relationship.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Flood/Post-Flood Boundaries Within the Global Stratigraphical Record

  Dec. 1, 2003, pp. 52–55

  everal years ago, John Reed and I presented the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin as an example where several vertical kilometres of sedimentary strata covering hundreds of square km were deposited.

• Feedback Article

  How 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.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Flood Models

  Dec. 1, 2000, p. 79

  We did not, and do not, propose that 'most of the fossils found on the earth were buried by post-Flood catastrophes'.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  McIntosh, Taylor and Edmondson Reply to Flood Models

  Dec. 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.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Flood Models: The Need for an Integrated Approach

  April 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.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Response 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.

• Technical Research Paper

  Evidence for a Late Cainozoic Flood/Post-Flood Boundary

  April 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.

• Technical Research Paper

  Coal, Volcanism and Noah’s Flood

  April 1, 1984, pp. 11–29

  Applying the explosive pyroclastic volcanism model to the formation of coal deposits, it is entirely feasible that all the coal seams were formed by the conditions during Noah's Flood.