The Flood

Based on the Bible, around 2300 BC the earth was completely covered with a worldwide flood. This worldwide flood is a very important factor in history. This flood could have easily carved the Grand Canyon in days or weeks instead of the millions of years we are taught to believe it took. The flood also provides an answer to many great questions. Polystrate fossils are a great example. These fossils, normally trees, baffle evolutionists because they stand erect going though many rock layers. The problem is that each rock layer is supposed to be a different time period. So how could a single tree be found going through many, many rock layers? They would decompose long before they could fossilize.  If the flood fossilized these trees, it is easily explained. Think about what happens when you put three materials like dirt, sand, and gravel in a jar and add some water. When you shake them up, they quickly separate into layers. The flood would easily disturb many materials from the land.  These matterials would settle in perfect layers and trees could easily be found going through many layers of sediment.

If the flood really happened, wouldn't everyone know about it, not just Christians? Yes, they would; and they do. The Sumerians lived around the 17th century BC. They were far from Christians as they were naturalists, humanists, and polytheists, but their history still contains fragments of the flood. They say that the gods were mad at all the people for not obeying them. The god Enki instructs Ziusudra, a man favored by the gods, to make a big boat and put his family and animals on it because they were going to send a great flood.

In India’s heritage, there are very similar legends. They say that a large fish warned a man that a flood was coming. The man made a boat and put “seeds of life” on it so that he could repopulate the earth after the flood. When the flood came, the fish pulled the boat onto a mountaintop.

Even in communist China’s history, there is a worldwide flood that dates to about the same time as the Biblical flood. These examples are just a very few of the many examples in almost every culture that depict a worldwide flood.

These examples do differ greatly from story to story but that is reasonable. Think about what happens when you line ten people up and tell the first one in line a sentence and he passes it down all the way to the end of the line. The sentence changes a lot, and that is just one sentence in one language. Now what would happen if you changed that sentence into a story and threw in an event like the tower of Babel in which everyone now speaks a different language? There would be large differences from story to story, and that is exactly what we have. These stories are different, but they all contain the same basic story. Why would so many cultures have a worldwide flood in their history unless it really happened? There is only one answer: It did happen.