Ken Ham: Noah's flood — it was global

Christian Post ^ | 02/19/2020 | Ken Ham

[SeekAndFind]

In an article in “The Christian Post” on whether the Flood of Noah covered the entire globe, Hugh Ross contended that the Flood was not global in extent but regional.

Taking Genesis as straightforward history, the reader of the text should have little difficulty understanding the account of the Flood in chapters 6–8. We are told that “the fountains of the great deep” burst open and poured out water onto the earth's surface for 150 days. The “floodgates of heaven” were open, producing torrential rainfall. These passages express a flood of global geographical extent. This view is confirmed by the words “all” and “whole” in Genesis 7:19: “And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.”

Furthermore, we read that all mankind was blotted out (except the eight people on the Ark). Genesis 6:7–13 tells us why God sent the Flood judgment: “The Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky.’” The Flood also came to destroy all land animals and birds wherever they were located, not just to kill sinful humans who were not on the Ark.

Furthermore, the Flood account is irreconcilable with a watery event being localized in the Mesopotamian Valley. As noted above, Genesis 7 teaches that “all the mountains were covered.” Because water will always seek its own level, how could the mountains be covered in only one region without also covering mountains in adjoining areas?

Likewise, there is no biblical or logical reason to assume that all humanity before the Flood lived only in the Mesopotamian Valley. Genesis 4 indicates that early man built cities, had nomadic herds of animals, and explored the earth (v. 17–22).

In 2 Peter 3, the Apostle Peter warned of a future time when people would willfully forget that after the earth was created by God, it perished “being flooded with water,” and that the present earth is “reserved for fire until the day of judgment.” Three events are referred to: the creation of the world (Greek “kosmos”), the destruction of that world (“kosmos” again) by a watery cataclysm (the Flood), and the future destruction of the heavens and the earth by fire. In other words, Peter accepted the Flood was global because the creation of the world was global and the future judgment by fire is to be global. This passage leaves no doubt that God’s Word — including in the New Testament — teaches a global Flood.

If the Flood were only regional in extent, why would Noah have even had to take birds on board the ark (Genesis 7:8) when the birds could have simply flown away to safe, unflooded areas? Similarly, why would Noah have needed to take land animals on board the Ark when representatives of those same animal kinds would surely have survived in an unflooded area?

Furthermore, why would Noah have had to build the ark to an immense scale as specified in Genesis 6:15 (about 510 feet long, 84 feet wide, and 51 feet high)? With three decks, the Ark would have had a total area of about 125,000 square feet for all the needed animals (and supplies). Obviously, an Ark of such dimensions would only be required if the Flood were global in extent, which was intended by God to destroy all land animals and birds living around the world (except for those preserved on that Ark). Because the Bible teaches that Noah was warned of the Flood several decades before it came (Genesis 6:3), God could have simply told Noah and his family to migrate out of the region with any required land animals and birds before the Flood started.

Finally, God gave the covenant of the rainbow to remind people He will never again send such a Flood. If Noah’s Flood was regional, then God has broken His promise over and over again because there have been multiple regional floods over the millennia.

Both the Old and New Testaments teach that the Flood of Noah was global. It could not be clearer. For the scientific evidence that confirms a global Flood, we have several articles by PhD geologists and others found on our website of www.AnswersInGenesis.org

This topic is ultimately one about the authority of God's Word, which plainly teaches a global Flood. Why should we accept the ever-changing opinions of fallible men as they reinterpret what the infallible God clearly communicated to us in Genesis?

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Ken Ham is the CEO of the Ark Encounter, an evangelistic attraction that draws well over a million people a year to tour its full-size Noah’s Ark in N. Kentucky.

[Kalamata]

>>George wrote, “God did his creation in six days and on the 7th he rested. Days are defined as a complete revolution of the planet earth. Conceivable is that during the creation God didn’t start the earth spinning as we have it today until end of the sixth day. So if earth was almost stationary for six days those six days could have been centuries by today’s timing. Whatcha think?”

All things are possible; but how would you fit in evenings and mornings?

Mr. Kalamata

[Kalamata]

>>circlecity wrote: "It’s interesting that on many of the tallest mountains, all around the world, they have found fossils of sea creatures."

Most interesting! Fossil sea shells are found even at the top of Everest!

There is no doubt that the entire earth surface was covered with sea water, at one time or another. The structure of the geologic column leads me to believe that it was formed by a single flood. Additional data from the column points to the mountain ranges being formed while the sedimentary rock layers were still pliable, as follows:

Those are thick, folded, sedimentary rock layers covering the uplifted igneous or metamorphic rock.

Mr. Kalamata

[Snook79]

I thought you were talking about Ken Ham, not Noah’s son.

[BipolarBob]

I don’t know what Noahs sons first name was. It could’ve been Ken. If he ain’t the same guy he’s probably related to him and it was passed down from generation to generation.

[Kalamata]

>>RainMan wrote: "Saw an interesting show a decade ago about the flood. It was looking for the scientific validation that the flood could, and did, occur as described. Short synopsis is this: The bible talks about the firmament above, and the firmament below. In modern science we have found planets with dense structures of gas in their atmospheres. If the earth had that at one time, it would be the firmament above. A mesosphere of dense humidity sitting on a stratosphere of denser gases above a troposphere of air. There is ample evidence that the plates that the continents move on are physically separated from the core of the earth (hence they still move and we have earthquakes). The theory goes that the separation was originally a layer of water that was trapped under the plates. The flood event was precipitated by something that shattered the two firmaments."

I believe you are referring to the Hydroplate Theory, by Walter Brown. This is a playlist devoted to his theory:

Great Flood Hydroplate Theory by Dr. Walter T. Brown, PhD

The 4th video is a combined series that goes into great detail about the science and engineering supporting the theory, whereas the 3rd video is a condensed view.

Dr. Brown received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Mr. Kalamata

[RainMan]

Appreciate it. Still not the program I was looking for, but same theory.

[Retvet]

Not to be mistaken as being rude but a sincere question. Aren’t numerous comets contain ice?

[Sawdring]

If that’s what Ken Hamm thinks, then that’s the way it was.

[21twelve]

Another translation of “day” is “era”. As in “back in the day of the dinosaurs...”.

And the Sun wasn’t created until the third(?) day.

God is the Creator. The Genesis account is a story about that - it isn’t a science text. Although imho it sure comes closer than what we think we know than a lot of other creation stories.

“Let their be light”.

But this is before the stars and the sun were created. I think the “light” is energy. And then, using E=mc2, we get the mass from that energy.

I’m not a young-earth creationist though.

[Elsie]

Aren’t numerous comets contain ice?

I've heard this claim.

I wonder where they were supposed to have originated?

[Elsie]

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