What Noah's flood regional or global? What are the more salient arguments for both views? What difference does it make? Where did all the water come from to cover the world's mountains? Where did the water go after the flood?

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How many fish died in the flood?

4. Genesis 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath
of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land,
died.
How many fish died in the flood?

5. What are the arguments for a local
flood and a global deluge? Which of
these 2 positions do you hold? Why
does it matter?

7. 1. HaAretz is "the land."
Hebrew word translated “the world” throughout
the flood narrative can be translated “the land.”
• "The LAND of Nod" (4:16).
• "In the LAND of Shinar" (10:10).
• "Out of that LAND went forth Ashur" (10:11).
• "Go forth from your COUNTRY, and from your
relatives and from your father's house, to the
LAND which I will show you..." (12:1).
• "And in you all the families of the EARTH shall
be blessed" (12:3).

8. 2. Universalist terms can be used in a
limited sense.
Note the following verses:
• The man called his wife's name Eve, because she
was the mother of ALL living (3:20). Was Eve the
mother of all life? Or merely the mother of all
HUMAN life? The answer is that this universal
term was being used in a limited sense.
• "Of EVERY living thing of ALL flesh, you shall
bring two of every kind into the ark..." (6:19). Most
people who advocate a universal flood do not take
this command to refer to ocean animals (no
goldfish bowls on the ark).

9. 3. Where did all the water go?
• Mount Everest rises over 5 miles above sea
level. There are many other mountains in the
world which are over the 3-mile height.
• For flood waters to cover the earth would
mandate that either the mountains were not
there (thus they would have to be VERY recent
in origin) or else that water came from some
supernatural source and then went away
again.

10. 3. Where did all the water go?
• Sediment deposits have been found underneath
the Sumerian ruins at Ur, at Fara and at Kish.

11. 3. Where did all the water go?
• Recent theories have arisen from scientific studies
in and around the Black Sea that suggest a large
inundation cause, at least in part, by the overflow
of the waters of the Mediterranean into what is
today the Black Sea.

12. Archaeologist
Sean Kingsley
The Jerusalem Post, “What's more
convincing scientifically, a flood in
the Black Sea, so far away from
Israel and the fantasy of a supposed
ark marooned on the slopes of
Mount Ararat, or six submerged
Neolithic villages smack-bang in
the middle of the Bible Land?”

13. 1. The depth of the flood.
• Genesis 7:19-20 says that ALL the high
mountains which were under ALL the
heavens were covered by the waters of the
flood. This double use of the word “all”
emphasizes the universality of the event.
• Water flows downhill. The peak of Mount
Ararat extends to an elevation of around
17,000 feet. If only this one single peak was
covered, then most of the world would also be
covered.

14. 2. The duration of the flood.
• Calculating the chronology of the flood in
Genesis, the flood lasted 371 days. Local
floods do not last this long.
• Furthermore, divine intervention, was
necessary not only in bringing the flood,
but also in removing the waters of the
flood. This also suggests the necessity of
a worldwide flood.

15. 3. The need for the ark.
• A regional flood would not have required
Noah the time and effort in building an
ark.
• He could have
moved to high
ground.

16. 4. The testimony of the Apostle Peter.
...the world at that time was destroyed, being
flooded with water. But the present heavens
and earth by His word are being reserved for
fire, kept for the day of judgment and
destruction of ungodly men." (2 Peter 3:6-7).
Peter's words imply a total destruction of the
entire world as he compares the destruction
of the flood in Noah’s day with the future
judgment and destruction.

17. cites the legends of the Samo-Kubo
tribe of New Guinea, the Athapascan
Indians of America, the Papago
Indians of Arizona, Brazilian tribes,
Peruvian Indians, African Hottentots,
natives of Greenland, native
Hawaiian islanders, Hindus, Chinese,
Egyptians, Greeks, Persians,
Australian natives, the Welsh, Celts,
Druids, Siberians, and Lithuanians.
James M. Boice
Bible teacher &
scholar
5. More than 300 different ancient
accounts of a flood.

18. The following are common aspects of their accounts:
88% describe a favored family
70% attribute survival to a boat
95% say the sole cause of the catastrophe is a flood
66% say that the disaster is due to man's wickedness
67% record that animals are also saved
57% describe that the survivors end up on a mountain
Many of the accounts also specifically mention birds being
sent out, a rainbow, and eight persons being saved
5. More than 300 different ancient
accounts of a flood.

19. 6. Other Biblical texts refer to a universal
flood: Job 22:15–16; Psalm 104:5–9; Isaiah 54:9;
Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5; 3:5–6.
Psalm 104:5–9 You who laid the foundations of the
earth, so that it should not be moved forever, 6 You
covered it with the deep as with a garment; the
waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke
they fled; at the voice of Your thunder they hastened
away. 8 They went up over the mountains; they went
down into the valleys, to the place which You founded
for them. 9 You have set a boundary that they may
not pass over, that they may not return to cover the
earth.

20. Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of
Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, on that day
all the fountains of the great deep were
broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened.
= divide, split, burst apart)bā·qǎʿ(‫ַע‬‫ק‬ָ‫בּ‬
‫ָן‬‫י‬ְ‫ע‬ַ‫מ‬ (mǎʿ·yān) = spring, fountain, below ground
water source
‫ח‬ַ‫ָת‬‫פּ‬ (pā·ṯǎḥ) = opening the mouth, speech follows;
when a womb is opened, pregnancy follows

21. • Ph.D. from MIT where he was a National
Science Foundation Fellow.
• He taught physics, mathematics, and
computer science at MIT.
• Retired Air Force colonel, West Point
graduate, Army Ranger and paratrooper.
• Director of Benét Laboratories
• Associate professor at the USAF Academy
• Chief of Science & Technology Studies at the
Air War College
• Director of the Center for Scientific Creation
Walt Brown

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25. BLACK SMOKERS
some as hot as 867°F (464°C),
were discovered in 1977 jetting up
on a portion of the Mid-Oceanic
Ridge in the Pacific.

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29. Pangaea

30. A more plausible
explanation

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