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General Flood topics

• Was There Really a Noah’s Ark & Flood? (from The New Answers Book)
• Creation, Flood and coming fire
• Folded ferns
• Genesis and catastrophe (technical)
• GlobalFlood.org (Dr. John Baumgardner’s work)
• Hebrew scholar affirms that Genesis means what it says!
• Noah revisited
• Noah — The Man Who Trusted God
• The (second) greatest catastrophe of all time
• The Genesis Flood: Its Legacy Continues (Special Webcast with Dr John Whitcomb)
• The Flood and the Final Judgment, Part 1 (Special Webcast with Dr John Whitcomb)
• The Flood and the Final Judgment, Part 2 (Special Webcast with Dr John Whitcomb)
• Still searching for the truth (review of National Geographic Channel “Search for Noah’s Ark” special)

Does the Bible really claim that Noah’s Flood was global? How do creationists answer critics who claim that the biblical account of Noah’s Flood was merely localized, not worldwide?

• After devastation … the recovery
• The "bathtub" ark
• The battle for creation in our "conservative" seminaries
• Biblical evidence for the universality of the Genesis Flood (Technical, Origins 22(2):58–73, 1995)
• Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Layers? (Technical)
• Church leader ‘aghast’ at belief in a worldwide Flood?
• Did Noah’s Flood cover the whole earth?
• Does Scripture require a global Flood?
• Flood cuts off Europe
• Grand Canyon—what is the message?
• Ice cores vs the Flood (Technical)
• Noah’s Flood Covered the Whole Earth
• Problems with a Global Flood? (Semi-Technical, by AiG scientist, published on the True Origins site)
• Proof of Noah’s Flood at the Black Sea? What has Robert Ballard really found? (critique of Ballard, Pitman and Ryan’s fallacious identification)
• Seven reasons why we should not accept millions of years
• Six days or billions of years...Does it make any difference?
• Startling evidence for Noah’s Flood
• They can’t allow "it"!
• Two Fighting Dinosaurs?
• Warped earth
• Was Noah a Martian?

• See also Q&A: Geology
• See also Q&A: Fossils

Were the flood waters solely caused by rain, or something more? How could there be enough water to cover all the mountains? Was there a vapour canopy? What about catastrophic plate tectonics?

• Noah’s Flood — what about all that water?
• Noah’s Flood - Where did the water come from?
• Drowned from below
• Hypercanes: rainfall generators during the flood?
• See also Q&A: Plate Tectonics

What did Noah’s Ark look like? How did Noah and his family care for all the animals?

• See Q&A: Noah’s Ark

How could freshwater fish and land plants have survived a global flood?

• How could fish survive the Genesis Flood? (ICR Impact article)
• What happened to land plants during the Flood? (ICR Impact article)

Can an approximate date for Noah’s Flood be determined using the Bible?

• Creation Education: The Date of Noah’s Flood [Ed. note: Ussher calculated a slightly different date of 2348 BC]
• The World: Born in 4004 BC? (Ussher's date)

How do creation and global flood legends from different cultures compare to the biblical account?

• Australian Aboriginal Flood Stories
• Aboriginal Flood Legend
• The BIAMI Legends
• Choctaw origin legends (off-site)
• Choctaw flood legend, version 1 (off-site)
• Choctaw flood legend, version 2 (off-site)
• Choctaw legend: The Legend of Oklatabishi and the Oka Falamah (off-site)
• The Cosmological beliefs of the American Indians (ICR Impact article)
• Flood!
• The Flood of Noah and the flood of Gilgamesh (ICR Impact article)
• Genesis according to the Miao people (ICR Impact article)
• Genesis and ancient Near Eastern stories of Creation and the Flood: an introduction (Semi-Technical, Christian Answers Network)
• Grand Canyon Legend
• The Lamb of God hidden in Chinese characters (Semi-technical, 2.2 MB PDF)
• Maori memories of the Creator
• Noah’s Flood and the epic of Gilgamesh
• The Original ‘Unknown’ god of China
• What the Warlpiri Aborigines believe about the origin of everything
• A comparative study of the flood accounts in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis (Master’s thesis: Nozomi Osanai)

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See also:

• Noah’s Ark Q&A
• Fossils Q&A
• Geology Q&A