Noah’s Flood Questions and Answers

General Flood topics

• North Sea Megaflood
• Australia’s drought exposes ‘drowned town’
• Genesis and catastrophe
• Noah revisited
• Noah — The Man Who Trusted God
• Noah’s Flood—why?
• The (second) greatest catastrophe of all time

Does the Bible really claim that Noah’s Flood was global?

• Was the Flood global?
• Does Scripture require a global Flood?
• Noah’s Flood Covered the Whole Earth
• Church leader ‘aghast’ at belief in a worldwide Flood?
• Biblical evidence for the universality of the Genesis Flood (Technical, Origins 22(2):58–73, 1995)

Is there geological evidence for a global flood?

• Q&A: Geology
• Q&A: Fossils

How do creationists answer critics who claim that the biblical account of Noah’s Flood was not feasible, or that the Flood was merely localized, not worldwide?

• After devastation … the recovery
• Geology and the young earth
• Problems with a Global Flood? (Semi-Technical, published on the True Origins site)
• Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Layers? (Technical)
• Paleosols: digging deeper buries ‘challenge’ to Flood geology

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?
• Drowned from below
• Hypercanes: rainfall generators during the flood?
• See also Q&A: Plate Tectonics

Noah’s Ark: fitting and feeding the animals, waterproofing, oxygen supply, etc.

• See Q&A: Noah’s Ark

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

• How did fish and plants survive the Genesis Flood? (includes fresh and salt-water survival)
• 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]

Was Noah’s Flood really just a local flood in the Black Sea area?

• Proof of Noah’s Flood at the Black Sea? What has Robert Ballard really found? (critique of Ballard, Pitman and Ryan’s fallacious identification)
• Pre-Flood relics on the bottom of the Black Sea?
• ‘Black Sea Flood’ mistake? (response by Tas Walker)

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
• The Cosmological beliefs of the American Indians (ICR Impact article)
• Flood!
• Noah’s Flood and the epic of Gilgamesh
• A comparative study of the flood accounts in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis (Master’s thesis: Nozomi Osanai)
• 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
• Maori memories of the Creator
• A Witness at the “ends of the earth”

See also:

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