ARGUMENTS FOR A WORLDWIDE FLOOD

ARGUMENTS FOR A WORLDWIDE FLOOD
BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS

Genesis
Text & Argument
1. 1:7 .........Water above the atmosphere must have been global in extent.
2. 2:5 ........No rain upon the earth must have been worldwide condition.
3. 2:6 ........Earth mist watered the whole face of the ground.
4. 2:10-14. Edenic geography no longer in existence.
5. 4:22.......High civilization at dawn of history not continuous with present world.
6. 5:5, etc..Longevity of antediluvian patriarchs indicates distinctive biosphere.
7. 6:1.........Man had multiplied on the face of the earth.
9. 6:5.........Universal evil inexplicable in post-diluvian society
10. 6:6,7....Repentance of God extended to the whole animal creation.
11. 6:11......Earth was filled with violence and corruption before God.
12. 6:12.....All flesh was corrupted (possibly including animals).
13. 6:13.....God decided to destroy both man and the earth.
14. 6:15.....Ark too large for regional fauna.
15. 6:17.....Everything with the breath of life to die.
16. 6:19.....Purpose of ark was to keep two of every sort alive.
17. 6:20.....Animals of all kinds migrated to the ark.
18. 6:21.....All kinds of edible food taken on the ark.
19. 7:4.......Every living substance on the ground to be destroyed.
20. 7:10....."The flood" (Hebrew mabbul) applies solely to noah’s flood.
21. 7:11......All the fountains of the great deep cleaved open in one day.
22. 7:11......The "sluiceways from the floodgates" of heaven were opened.
23. 7:12.....Rain poured continuously for forty days and forty nights.
24. 7:18.....The waters prevailed and increased greatly.
25. 7:19.....High hills under the whole heaven were covered.
26. 7:20.....Waters fifteen cubits above highest mountains.
27. 7:21......Every man died on the earth.
28. 7:22.....All flesh with the breath of life in the dry land died.
29. 7:23.....Every living substance destroyed off the face of the ground.
30. 7:24.....Waters at maximum height for five months.
31. 8:2.......Fountains of the deep open for five months.
32. 8:2......Windows of heaven open for five months.
33. 8:4......Ark floated over 17,000 ft. mountains for five months.
34. 8:5......Water receded 2 ½ months before mountain tops seen.
35. 8:9......Dove found no suitable ground even after four months of recession.
36. 8:11.....Plants began budding after nine months of the flood.
37. 8:14.....Occupants were in the ark over a year.
38. 8:19.....All kinds of present non-marine animals came from the ark.
39. 8:21.....God smote all things living only once.
40. 8:22....Present uniformity of nature dates from the end of the flood.
41. 9:1.......Earth was to filled with descendants of Noah.
42. 9:2......Changed relation between man and animals followed the flood.
43. 9:3......Man permitted animal food after flood.
44. 9:6......Institution of human government dates from flood.
45. 9:10....God’s covenant made with every living creature.
46. 9:11.....The flood promised by God never to come again on the earth.
47. 9:13.....Rainbow placed in sky after the flood.
48. 9:19.....Whole earth overspread of the sons of Noah.
49. 11:1......Whole earth of one language after the flood.
50. 11:9......All men lived in one place after the flood.

ARGUMENTS FOR A WORLDWIDE FLOOD
NON-BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS

1. Worldwide distribution of flood traditions.
2. Origin of civilization near Ararat-Babylon region in post-flood time.
3. Convergence of population growth statistics on date of flood.
4. Dating of oldest living things at post-flood time.
5. Worldwide occurrence of water-laid sediments and sedimentary rocks.
6. Recent uplift of major mountain ranges.
7. Marine fossils on crests of mountains.
8. Evidence of former worldwide warm climate.
9. Necessity of catastrophic burial and rapid lithification of fossil deposits.
10. Recent origin of many datable geological processes.
11. Worldwide distribution of all types of fossils.
12. Uniform physical appearance of rocks from different "ages".
13. Frequent mixing of fossils from different "ages".
14. Near-random deposition of formational sequences.
15. Equivalence of total organic material in present world and fossil world.
16. Wide distribution of recent volcanic rocks.
17. Evidence of recent water bodies in present desert areas.
18. Worldwide occurrence of raised shore lines and river terraces.
19. Evidence of recent drastic rise in sea level.
20. Universal occurrence of rivers in valleys too large for the present stream.
21. Sudden extinction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
22. Rapid onset of glacial period.
23. Existence of polystrate fossils.
24. Preservation of tracks and other ephemeral markings throughout geologic column.
25. Worldwide occurrence of sedimentary fossil "graveyards" in rocks of all "ages".
26. Absence of any physical evidence of chronological boundary between rocks of successive "ages".
27. Occurrence of all rock types (shale, limestone, granite, etc.) in all "ages".
28. Parallel of supposed evolutionary sequence through different "ages" with modern ecological zonation in the one present age.
29. Lack of correlation of most radiometric "ages" with assumed paleontologic "ages".
30. Absence of meteorites in geologic column.
31. Absence of hail imprints in geologic column, despite abundance of fossil ripple-marks and raindrop imprints.
32. Evidence of man’s existence during earliest of geologic "ages" (e.g., human footprints in Cambrian, Carboniferous, and Cretaceous formations).

Reprinted from: THE REMARKABLE BIRTH OF PLANET EARTH.
Henry M. Morris, Ph.D., Institute for Creation Research. 1972. pp 96-100.