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.
Noah’s Flood: a Historical, Global Catastrophe
Examining the immense biblical data for Noah’s flood as an actual, year-long, worldwide, and catastrophic flood about 4,500 years ago.
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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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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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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Magazine Department ArticleChronology CheckJan. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Are dominant views about Flood chronology true to Scripture?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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.
Articles About The Flood
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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.
-
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?
-
Magazine Department ArticleChronology CheckJan. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Are dominant views about Flood chronology true to Scripture?
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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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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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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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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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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.
-
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.
-
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 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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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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