I. Introduction

              Noah’s flood is talked about in Genesis chapters 6-9 of the Bible.

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II. Date of Noah’s Flood

              Answers in Genesis gives a date of about 2348BC for Noah’s flood.

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III. Evidence from the Bible that Noah’s flood was global

  “Many say Noah’s Flood (if a real event) was only a local flood. Why? Because they believe our world is millions of years old. In that view, the fossils in the rock layers represent the appearance of new forms of life over eons of time.”

1) “If the Flood was just a local affair why was the Ark so huge? They could have walked out of the area and been safe! Why put birds on board? They could have flown away. Jesus believed that, apart from Noah and his family, the Flood killed everyone (Matthew 24:37–39). If the Flood were local, people who lived outside the area would not have been affected. They would have escaped God’s judgment on sin.”

(quotes from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood and Noah’s Ark: Fact or Fiction?”)

2) Genesis 7:19-20-- They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.

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IV. Some scientific evidence for a global flood

            1) “Cultures all over the world retain a memory of the Flood in their local history.” (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .”)

2) Large coal deposits indicate that a large amount of vegetation was buried to form the coal. No process today is doing this, but Noah’s flood can explain it. (from Tas Walker “Coal: memorial to the Flood”

            3) “Since the Flood was global the receding waters would have produced the same sort of signature all over the world.

At first, the water flowed in sheets. This means that they eroded surfaces relatively flat, even in areas of high elevation on the continents. The water would tend to cut across geological strata like a knife cutting cheese. Such high plateaus are a common feature of today’s landscapes and have been given a name—peneplanes, which means ‘almost a plane’.

Eventually, the flow of floodwater reduced with time. Thus, the water sheets would divide into mega-rivers, many times wider than the widest rivers that flow over the contents today. These mega-rivers would dissect the plateaus into wide valleys. They would also cut across the underlying geological structure in their journey to the ocean, acting as if the structure did not exist. This is a common feature of present day landscapes and geologists have coined a term for it—discordant drainage. And the mega-rivers would carry even the largest rock debris clear out of their valleys.”

(from Tas Walker “How landscapes reveal Noah’s Flood”)

4) The Grand Canyon provides lots of evidence of Noah’s flood. See for example Andrew A. Snelling and Steven A. Austin “Startling evidence for Noah’s Flood”; Harry Dickens “The ‘Great Unconformity’ and associated geochemical evidence Noahic Flood erosion.”

            5) Human genetics supports Noah’s flood. See Dr. Robert W. Carter “Adam, Eve and Noah vs Modern Genetics.”

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V. Where did the water come from and go to?

1) “The Bible describes two sources for the water—rain from the sky and water surging from the breaking up of ‘all the fountains’ of the ‘great deep’. These fountains, being mentioned first, may have been the most important source of the water for the Flood. It may refer to huge underground sources of water. The ‘breaking up’ implies large-scale volcanic and earthquake activity.

  Geologists have discovered that the rocks in the mantle deep inside the earth still contain abundant (enough to fill the oceans twenty times over) water. They believe that, in the past, some of the water in the mantle came out on the earth. The mountains and land masses were different before the Flood. Some creationist scientists believe the break-up of a single continent was part of the mechanism that caused the Flood.” (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood . . .”)

 

            2) “Our earth is called the blue planet because it is mostly covered (70% of the earth’s surface) with water.

If the world’s mountains were smoothed off and the ocean basins pushed up, making the surface even, then water would cover the earth to a depth of about three kilometres.

Noah’s Flood caused big mountain-sized earth movements. We see lots of examples where mountain ranges were warped and folded while the sediment was still soft. Toward the end of the Flood, they were pushed up as the earth’s crust moved. The water is still here, we just live on the parts that were pushed up out of the water at the end of the Flood. Some reliable Bible scholars suggest Psalm 104:7–8 describes this when speaking of the mountains rising, the valleys sinking, and the waters flowing off the earth.” (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .)

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VI. Noah’s Ark

            1) “The length of the Ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. (Genesis 6:15)

That is 140 m long, 23 m wide and 14 m high.1 It was longer than a football field and higher than a four-storey building. It had three decks and a volume of about 44,400 m³ (1.52 million cu ft).”

“A study by naval architects found that the Ark specified in the Bible is one of the most stable shapes to handle large waves in a rough ocean. It would remain upright under the most adverse conditions.” (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .”)

2) Noah could have built this big of an ark. “People in Noah’s time had no less physical strength or mental ingenuity than people today. By saying that ancient people were more primitive we are expressing an evolutionary idea.”

            “Not long after the Flood, the Egyptians, for example, were writing, cutting granite and precision-building great pyramids.

 

The first man that God created was perfect. In the 6,000 years since then, our intellect has most likely deteriorated due to the effects of the curse. Fortunately, we have more than counteracted for any such loss of ability by storing and passing on information and discoveries.” (Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .”)

 

3) “John Woodmorappe, in his book Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study, estimates that 16,000 animals, at the very most, needed to be housed on the Ark. This was treating the kind as equivalent to the modern man-made category of ‘genus’. If the kind were as broad as a family, then only about 2,000 animals would have been needed.” (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .”)

 

4) “Noah didn’t have to travel to far-away places and collect all the animals to bring them on board. The Bible tells us that God sent the animals to Noah without being rounded up.” (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .”)

 

5) “And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them. (Genesis 6:21)

Noah needed to keep the animals warm and clean, and stow enough food and water for 370 days. According to Woodmorappe, food for 16,000 animals would have taken only about 15% of the Ark’s total volume, and drinking water about 10%.6 This could be reduced by storing dried and compressed foodstuffs, and by collecting rainwater.”

 

“Woodmorappe estimates that eight people could care for 16,000 animals without any special devices. Deep bedding of sawdust, wood shavings or peat moss can last unchanged for many months, and would absorb moisture and odour. Some cages may have had sloped or slatted floors, so the manure could fall and be flushed away. “ (from Tas Walker “The Genesis Flood. . .”)