Noah's Flood
Biblical And Scientific Evidence
What was the extent of the Biblical Flood? Did the flood kill all life including animal, plant life and including insects, microbes, etc.? What does the bible say about what was to be destroyed? How did the water disappear from the earth and where did it go? Exactly what does the bible say about this?
This paper will attempt to find at least some of the answers to these questions. In this life we may never know fully all the answers but we can make a good guess from the bible and from the findings of science.
Gen 6:13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.BBE
Gen 6:12 And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.BBE
Gen 7:21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. Gen 7:22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. Gen 7:23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.BBE
Gen 8:1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down. Gen 8:2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped. Gen 8:3 And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.BBE
Gen 8:4 And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Gen 8:5 And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen. Gen 8:13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry. Gen 8:14 And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. Gen 8:15 And God said to Noah, Gen 8:16 Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. Gen 8:17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth. Gen 8:18 And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives; Gen 8:19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark. Gen 8:20 And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar. Gen 8:21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done. Gen 8:22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.BBE
