The Genesis Flood

The Genesis Flood

The Genesis Flood must be accurate or the entire Bible is a lie. The Bible is either entirely true or it is the worst hoax that has ever been. For that reason, I have studied it my entire life. I look at the 'scientific evidence' and the "Biblical evidence'. Lucky for me, I live in Arizona, home of the Grand Canyon. I am completely convinced the Bible is true. Below is the list Drs. Morris and Whitcomb developed. They started the research. It is still worth looking at even though there is a lot more evidence today. We understand so much more about the earth and what the fountains of the earth breaking up would have caused.

I hope you will take the time to read through it all. It is longer than most posts.

During the decade of the 1950s, Drs. Morris and Whitcomb met and began to collaborate on what would become the 1961 release of The Genesis Flood. That book, in the sovereign plan of God, became the catalyst that opened the gates to the pent-up flood of Christian professionals who, like God’s loyal “seven thousand” in the days of Elijah, had not yet bowed their knee to the Baal of evolutionary compromise. A revival among scientifically trained Christians had begun.

The Universality of the Deluge, ICR’s founder compiled a list of reasons why the Genesis Flood was universal (“The Universality of the Deluge”).* Here is a short commentary he penned as an introduction to this comprehensive study guide:

Central to the question of the historicity of the early chapters of Genesis is the question whether the Noahic Flood was global or only regional. A worldwide flood would have cataclysmically changed the entire surface of the globe, including any fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks that may have been formed prior to that time. Consequently, the earth’s present fossiliferous sediments must date largely from the time of their deposition in the waters of the great flood.

On the other hand, the modern evolutionary system of earth history denies any such global cataclysm and is based on the assumption of uniformitarianism. The sedimentary rocks and their fossil contents have been interpreted as evidence of a vast series of evolutionary ages extending over billions of years of time, deposited slowly and generally uniformly over the earth as living organisms gradually evolved into higher and higher forms during those ages.

The “day-age theory” is the attempt by Bible expositors to accommodate these evolutionary ages within the framework of the six days of creation. The “gap theory” is the attempt by other expositors to accommodate them outside the framework of the six days of creation. Both such theories, if consistent, are associated with the “local flood theory,” since a universal flood would have destroyed the sedimentary framework of the geological ages. That is, a universal flood precludes the historicity of the geological ages, and vice versa.

If the Genesis flood actually was worldwide, then the strained exegesis associated with the day-age and gap theories becomes unnecessary and harmful. In the tabulation below, therefore, are listed [ninety-five] reasons why the flood should be accepted as a true global cataclysm.

Here Are 95 Reasons Why the Genesis Flood Was Global
From References in Genesis

Genesis Reference --- Argument

Genesis 1:7 Water above the atmosphere must have been global in extent
Genesis 2:5 No rain on the earth must have been worldwide condition
Genesis 2:6 Earth mist watered the whole face of the ground
Genesis 2:10-14 Edenic geography no longer in existence
Genesis 4:22 High civilization at dawn of history not continuous with present world
Genesis 5:5, etc. Longevity of antediluvian patriarchs indicates distinctive biosphere
Genesis 6:1 Man had multiplied on the face of the earth
Genesis 6:2 Demonic-human unions co-extensive with mankind
Genesis 6:5 Universal evil inexplicable in post-diluvian society
Genesis 6:6-7 Repentance of God extended to the whole animal creation
Genesis 6:11 Earth was filled with violence and corruption before God
Genesis 6:12 All flesh was corrupted (possibly including animals)
Genesis 6:13 God decided to destroy both man and the earth
Genesis 6:15 Ark too large for regional fauna
Genesis 6:17 Everything with the breath of life to die
Genesis 6:19 Purpose of ark was to keep two of every sort alive
Genesis 6:20 Animals of all kinds migrated to the ark
Genesis 6:21 All kinds of edible food taken on the ark
Genesis 7:4 Every living substance on the ground to be destroyed
Genesis 7:10 “The flood” (Hebrew mabbul) applies solely to Noah’s flood
Genesis 7:11 All the fountains of the great deep cleaved open in one day
Genesis 7:11 The “sluiceways from the floodgates” of heaven were opened
Genesis 7:12 Rain poured continuously for forty days and forty nights
Genesis 7:18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly
Genesis 7:19 High hills under the whole heaven were covered
Genesis 7:20 Waters fifteen cubits above highest mountains
Genesis 7:21 Every man died on the earth
Genesis 7:22 All flesh with the breath of life in the dry land died
Genesis 7:23 Every living substance destroyed off the face of the ground
Genesis 7:24 Waters at maximum height for five months
Genesis 8:2 Windows of heaven open for five months
Genesis 8:4 Ark floated over 17,000-ft. mountains for five months
Genesis 8:5 Water receded 2-1/2 months before mountains tops seen
Genesis 8:9 Dove found no suitable ground even after four months of recession
Genesis 8:11 Plants began budding after nine months of the flood
Genesis 8:14 Occupants were in the ark over a year
Genesis 8:19 All kinds of present nonmarine animals came from the ark
Genesis 8:21 God smote all things living only once
Genesis 8:22 Present uniformity of nature dates from the end of the flood
Genesis 9:1 Earth was to be filled with descendants of Noah
Genesis 9:2 Changed relation between man and animals followed the flood
Genesis 9:3 Man permitted animal food after flood
Genesis 9:6 Institution of human government dates from flood
Genesis 9:10 God’s covenant made with every living creature
Genesis 9:11 The flood promised by God never to come again on the earth
Genesis 9:13 Rainbow placed in sky after the flood
Genesis 9:19 Whole earth overspread by the sons of Noah
Genesis 11:1 Whole earth of one language after the flood
Genesis 11:9 All men lived in one place after the flood

From Other Biblical Writers

Biblical Reference Argument

Job 12:15 The waters overturned the earth
Psalm 29:10 The flood testified God as eternal king
Psalm 104:8 Flood terminated by crustal tectonics
Isaiah 54:9 Waters of Noah went over the earth
Matthew 24:37 The days of Noah like those when Christ comes
Matthew 24:39 The flood took them all away
Luke 17:27 The flood destroyed them all
Hebrews 11:7 Noah warned of things never seen before
Hebrews 11:7 Noah condemned the world by his faith
I Peter 3:20 Only eight souls saved on the ark through the flood
II Peter 2:5 God spared not the old world (Greek kosmos)
II Peter 2:5 God brought the Flood on the world of the ungodly
II Peter 2:5 The “flood” (Greek kataklusmos) applied solely to Noah’s flood
II Peter 3:6 The world that then was, perished by the watery cataclysm

From Non-Biblical Evidence

Argument

Worldwide distribution of flood traditions
Origin of civilization near Ararat-Babylon region in post-flood time
Convergence of population growth statistics on date of flood
Dating of oldest living things at post-flood time
Worldwide occurrence of water-laid sediments and sedimentary rocks
Recent uplift of major mountain ranges
Marine fossils on crests of mountains
Evidence of former worldwide warm climate
Necessity of catastrophic burial and rapid lithification of fossil deposits
Recent origin of many datable geological processes
Worldwide distribution of all types of fossils
Uniform physical appearance of rocks from different “ages”
Near-random deposition of formational sequences
Equivalence of total organic material in present world and fossil world
Wide distribution of recent volcanic rocks
Evidence of recent drastic rise in sea level
Worldwide occurrence of raised shore lines and river terraces
Universal occurrence of rivers in valleys too large for the present stream
Sudden extinction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
Rapid onset of glacial period
Existence of polystrate fossils
Preservation of tracks and other ephemeral markings throughout geologic column
Worldwide occurrence of sedimentary fossil “graveyards” in rocks of all “ages”
Absence of any physical evidence of chronologic boundary between rocks of successive “ages”
Occurrence of all rock types (shale, limestone, granite, etc.) in all “ages”
Parallel of supposed evolutionary sequence through different “ages” with modern ecological zonation in the one present age
Absence of meteorites in geological column
Absence of hail imprints in geological column, despite abundance of fossil ripple-marks and raindrop imprints
Similar structural features (rifts, faults, folds, thrusts, etc.) in rocks of all “ages”
Absence of evidence of drainage systems in sediments of any “ages” except the most recent
Hydraulic evidence of rapid deposition of each stratum and of continuous formation of every sequence of strata, with no worldwide time gap between any formation and another above it. ...