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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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 11, 2025 from Ken Ham Blog
Is the biblical account of the global flood and Noah’s ark “indefensible”? Well, that’s what apologist William Lane Craig recently told Latin American Christians.
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April 1, 2025 from Answers Magazine
The global flood left an erosion scar, called the Great Unconformity, that we can still see around the world.
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Nov. 19, 2024 from Answers Magazine
You can’t separate the truth about God’s work in the physical world from spiritual truths without drastic consequences.
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May 19, 2024 from Answers Magazine
Secular scientists see evidence of global catastrophe on Venus and Mars. So why can’t they admit the evidence on earth?
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May 11, 2024 from Answers in Depth
God ensured the ark was well-suited to withstand the flood.
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Nov. 29, 2023 from Answers Magazine
Forests in Antarctica? This frigid, forbidding continent is full of surprising evidences for the worldwide flood.
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July 30, 2023 from Answers Magazine
Christians need not be intimidated by “scientific” pronouncements that deny the clear words of Genesis. Evidences for the flood are everywhere if your assumptions don’t blind you to them.
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July 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine
How can we be sure there was a worldwide flood as the Bible claims? These five strong evidences show that the catastrophic event really happened.
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May 16, 2023 from Answers in Depth
Genesis highlights the global extent of the flood with language and themes that echo the Genesis 1 creation account.
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Nov. 13, 2022 from Answers Magazine
We can only imagine what happened after the Flood! Consider five major examples of catastrophes that reshaped the planet.
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July 1, 2022 from Answers Magazine
God blessed Noah’s obedience—but that doesn’t mean life after departing the ark was easy.
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Oct. 1, 2021 from Answers Magazine
When you look closely at Lake Superior’s landscape, you’ll see evidence of a catastrophic past.
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March 30, 2021 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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April 18, 2020 from The New Answers Book 4
The Scriptures are silent on the issue of whether there were any volcanoes or earthquakes in the world before the Flood, but we do know there were mountains.
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Jan. 8, 2020 from The New Answers Book 4
How could neat uniform sedimentary rock layers be deposited during the Flood cataclysm with all the fast-moving waters?
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Dec. 2, 2019 from Ken Ham Blog
Responding to Hugh Ross’ local flood arguments and naturalistic assumptions, while making sense of a biblical, global flood.
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June 29, 2019 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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