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The Creation Answers Book

The Creation Answers Book

Lessons & Chapters

Lesson 1 Does God exist? (Chapter 1)

Lesson 2: Six days? Really? (Chapter 2)

Lesson 3 What about gap theories? (Chapter 3)

Lesson 4 What about carbon dating? (Chapter 4)

Lesson 5 How can we see distant stars in a young universe? (Chapter 5)

Lesson 6 How did bad things come about? (Chapter 6)

Lesson 7 What about arguments for evolution? (Chapter 7)

Lesson 8 Who was Cain’s wife? (Chapter 8)

Lesson 9 Were the ‘sons of God’ and/or the Nephilim extraterrestrials? (Chapter 9)

Lesson 10 Was the Flood global? (Chapter 10)

Lesson 11 What about continental drift? (Chapter 11)

Lesson 12 Noah’s Flood-what about all that water? (Chapter 12)

Lessons 13 & 14 How did all the animals fit on Noah’s Ark? and How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive the Flood? (Chapters 13 & 14)

Lesson 15 Where are all the human fossils? (Chapter 15)

Lesson 16 What about ice ages? (Chapter 16)

Lesson 17 How did animals get to Australia? (Chapter 17)

Lesson 18 How did all the different ‘races’ arise (from Noah’s family)? (Chapter 18)

Lesson 19 What about dinosaurs? (Chapter 19)

The Creation Answers Book Study Guide

by Dr Don Batten, Dr David Catchpoole, Dr Jonathan Sarfati, and Dr Carl Wieland

Lesson 12: Noah’s Flood—what about all that water?

Text: The Creation Answers Book, chapter 12

Supplemental materials:

Discussion questions

  1. According to the Bible, what were the two main sources of water for the global Flood of Noah’s day?

  2. Discuss the ‘water vapor canopy’ theory.
    1. What is it?
    2. What are the problems with it?
  3. Define the ‘fountains of the great deep’ according to the Bible.

  4. Was there rain before the Flood?

  5. How does the ‘catastrophic plate tectonics’ idea explain where the water came from for the Flood, and where the water went?

  6. Where did the Flood waters go?

  7. How could the Flood waters have covered all the high hills, such as Mt Everest?

  8. Explain how the sedimentary layers seen in the Grand Canyon are best described as forming within the context of an Earth-covering Flood. (See also Startling evidence for Noah’s Flood.