[Ol' Dan Tucker]

A condition which still exists for much of Texas. According to secular scientists, there were still mammoths and ground sloths running around North America as recently as 10 or 11,000 years ago. The evidence here is not inconsistent with the animals having been overwhelmed by a flood, so the only question is dating.

While this is interesting, it does not answer my original question about when the flood of Noah is supposed to have occurred.

[PAR35]

I wasn’t around then, so I can’t give a precise date. The geological record seems to indicate about 10,000 or so years ago.

[sevenbak]

First century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus used manuscripts available during his time to calculate that Noah’s Flood occurred 1556 years after the creation of Adam. By adding the ages of the patriarchs listed in the Bible, other scholars have come up with roughly similar dates.

By using the dates mentioned in the bible when sons were born to the patriarchs, most scholars say that the Deluge must have taken place in the third millennium before the birth of Jesus Christ — possibly between 2500 BC and 2300 BC.

Here’s the order, based on dates mentioned in the bible.

Name - Years before son’s birth

Adam 130
Seth 105
Enos 90
Cainan 70
Maleleel 65
Jared 62
Enoch 65
Mathusela 187
Lamech 182
Noah 600

Noah was 600 years old when it happened:

In the 600th year of Noah’s life, in the 2nd month, the 17th day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. On the very same day Noah, Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife and his sons three wives with them, entered the ark with two of every animal and bird. God shut the door of the ark, and the Flood began. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed 15 cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every man.... Only Noah and those with him in the ark remained alive. [Gen 7:11-23]