The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and its Scientific Implications

After going to The Ark Encounter I heard Ken Ham tell the story of his having read this book as a young man. It seemed to be an inspiration for his Creation Museum and The Ark Encounter decades later. This book is a must read for those if us that believe the Word of God is true. It describes a scientific approach that confirms the Bible when the lense of world view is considered as its rightful place as the primary factor for discovering truth. This is a great read and the amazing thing is this information has been around for over 50 years!

The authors take their time going through all the points and counter points to the biblical accuracy of the global Noahcian flood.

This book is a staple for any study of Evolution and Creationism. That is why I gave it a four-star rating.However, I am disappointed that it has not been given closer scrutiny. If you read the other reviews in this section, you see many Creationists declaring "This is it!" Conversely, you see many Evolutionists waving the book away as "nonsense." I hope to give a review with more content.Whitcomb & Morris devote a major portion of the book to attacking radiometric dating. One of their chief arguments is that decay rates might have changed since earlier times. Joe Meert of the University of Florida argues that this would be impossible, since the Garden of Eden would have been a molten mound. He presents his view in an article entitled "Were Adam and Eve Toast?"This book is one of the earliest Creationist masterpieces, and as such, offered fodder for Creationist advocate Duane Gish's mill. In this book, we are told that Evolutionary theory violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This has become one of Duane Gish's greatest hits. Most of his listeners know very little about science, so they have to take his word for it. However, Frank Edwords, editor of Creation/Evolution, asked Gish to explain to a professional readership just where they are going wrong. He promised to publish whatever Gish would write on the subject, but he never got a response.W & M also take a few stabs at Goldschmidt and his saltation theory. Since Goldschmidt presented his theory as an apology for paucity of transitional fossils, his name gets mentioned frequently by Creationists. Gish often makes jokes about Mama Reptile looking down at her nest, very surprised to see Baby Bird hatching from an egg. W & M do not mention the fact that Goldschmidt's theory has never been accepted. In fact, it has not been needed, since paleontologists have found likely candidates for reptile/bird intermediaries.Since all animals were created in the beginning, that goes for the dinosaurs. So what happened to the dinosaurs? Our authors suggest that the dinosaurs went extinct in an ice age which followed the Flood. Gish repeats this claim in a children's book about dinosaurs.According to Whitcomb & Morris, the Fall of Man was the fall of all the rest of Creation as well. Until then, all animals were vegetarian. Gish tells this story to the little kiddies, too. (I wonder what a vegetarian tyrannosaurus would look like!)On p. 370 of the 1961 edition, the authors cite a 1953 article by Moon & Spencer, which argues for a small universe. This was in response to the argument that we see stars millions of lightyears away, so the universe must be millions of years old. Gish alluded to this article in one of his debates. What neither party seems to realize is that the article was a spoof on the claims made by cult leader Cyrus Reed Teed.As you may already know, Creationists have a time-honored custom of quoting Evolutionists out of context, thereby pretending that the Evolutionists are apologizing for poverty of evidence. This practice seems to have started at about the time of this book.On p. 187, the authors quote Ross & Rezak as saying that the Lewis Overthrust of Montana is not a geological fault, whereas in fact R & R said the exact opposite.Many scientific developments have taken place since 1961, so the authors could not be faulted for some of their material. They adamantly claimed that radiometric dating is fickle and unreliable, but we realize that they could not have predicted the 1998 study by Spray, Kelley, & Rowley. In this study, S, K, & R compared radiometric readings for the same site in 1998 and find them to agree.If you go to Glen Rose, Texas, you may agree that the human footprint next to a dinosaur footprint looks convincing, and that seems to be what Whitcomb & Morris thought. They could not have predicted that in 2008, the whole thing would be revealed as a hoax to draw tourists to the area.However, the authors leave out some very important material out of sheer dishonesty. Recapitulation theory, vestigial organs, and DNA research were all known at the time of the book. The less the reader knows about these topics the better, so Whitcomb & Morris do not even mention them.Although the authors were quite vociferous in attacking what Evolutionists have to offer, their arguments for Creationist science are rather weak. In order to conform the Bible with science, they postulate climate changes before and after the Deluge, which are not mentioned in the Bible.They propose several time clocks as alternatives for radiometric dating. In an article in 1984, Dalrymple summarized most of these methods. In reading Dalrymple's article, one sees that they do not produce consistent results.Near the end of the book (pp. 440-441 in the 1961 edition), the authors present a false dichotomy. Although they admit that they have not scientifically proven Biblical history, they argue that they have poked holes in Evolutionary theory, and that their position wins by default. Not so. There are many other alternatives. Maybe there have been multiple creations, as Georges Cuvier would have us believe. Maybe we have evolved, but through a path not charted by mainstream science, as L. Ron Hubbard would have us believe. Maybe we were brought to this planet to be overseen by a group of space aliens, as Hoyle & Wickramasinghe would have us believe. Maybe we have always been here in our present state, as the Jainists would have us believe. For that matter, any of the countless other creation myths could be true.It is important for all of us to read about all points of view. Read this book, but read something else too.

Ok, I’ve read this book once about 25 years ago and really liked it then. So I’ve now read it a second time and I think it is one of the most powerful and important books I’ve ever read. It is still, after all these years, timely even though the sources are from the 1950s at best, and some from the 1800s. It is timely because, believe it or not, the book covers almost every theory ever mentioned, including continental drift. Each theory is completely discussed at fundamental levels so even really new theories can be considered at a scientific level. Evolution is throughly worked through from Darwin to punctuated equalLibrium [sp?] or explosive evolution as it was called around 1950-60. It is all done from a solid scientific point of view.Yes, the book is old; however, it is still well written, throughly researched, and it still explains the basics better than any book out there. It is one hundred percent scientific, as you might think since it was written by scientists. By the way, a non-scientist can understand it without a degree in geology. I took several geology and earth science classes in my undergraduate years, and while that knowledge helped me understand some of the finer arguments in geology IMO anyone can understand what is being said.GET THIS BOOK. READ IT FROM COVER TO COVER. IT IS A NATIONAL TREASURE.AD2

Books content is very good. It gives an alternate, many times more logical than some of the "proven" facts of modern science. Even though the book is over 50 years old, basic science does not change, contrary to some modern scientist beliefs.There are many other books that have taken some of the facts from the book and updated their findings; for example, the dinosaur superimposed human footprints has been shown to continue for many feet into the river bank and cross sections of the footprints show a "bending" of the microscopic stratifications that cannot be duplicated by known scientific and engineering procedures.My only problem with this order is the fact that the Us Post Office will not allow their drivers to use reverse when delivering packages. Our local Post Office even went on to say that they have installed GPS enabled alarms on their vehicles (and privately carrier vehicles) that time stamps with GPS coordinates an alarm back to the Post Office any time the driven places their vehicle in reverse. Would not back-up camera be a much more logical, and economic solution?

Good book with good information. A bit hard to read but if you hang in there the information is worth it.

Compliments pour la livraison impeccable et très rapide. Ouvrage très complet et scientifiquement valable pour démontrer l'exactitude de la théorie du déluge universel. A recommander aux anglicistes qui cherchent une réponse à leurs interrogations.

If you have any doubt on the Genesis flood, Dr. Henry Morris has the answer here. A must read for all.

This book was first published in 1961, and whilst up to that point, Christian Fundamentalism had been something of an anti-intellectual movement, this book by two academics sought to make it respectable in learned circles. The authors held a firm view of the inerrancy of the Bible as a whole, and the story of the Genesis Flood in particular, and the book seems to be primarily addressed at those evangelicals who the authors felt had sold out on Biblical inerrancy by preaching a limited version of Noah’s flood, in which it didn’t cover the whole earth, and didn’t kill all humans and animals apart from those in the Ark, thus avoiding awkward questions (Where did all the water come from? Where did it go? How did 4 men build a 450 foot ark? How did Noah catch thousands of species from all the continents? How did he feed them all for around year? etc.). In their attempt to maintain this most literal version of the Flood, the authors are prepared to ditch many of the basic assumptions of science, such as that physical “constants” (e.g. the rate of decay of radio-isotopes) don’t change, and every unsolved problem in geology is seen as undermining the whole consensus. The last 60 years haven’t for the most part born out their theories, but in two respects their comments have proved prophetic; one was their opposition to Fred Hoyle’s Steady State Universe, fashionable in 1961 but now discredited; the other was their recognition that varying levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a major driver of climate change. A few people may buy this book so as to be able to defend the idea of a global flood in the 4th millennium BCE, but others will see it as a classic example of the lengths some people are prepared to go to defend the concept of Biblical inerrancy, not so much because it really matters how big the flood was, but out of a fear that if this domino falls, it will set in train a process which undermines the authority of scripture

I just finished reading "The Genesis Flood" and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. It is quite in depth and sometimes over my head, but I would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in wondering whether the great flood actually happened. You won't regret it!

This is an indepth study validating the Genesis record of a worldwide flood that occurred some 4,000 years ago.An absurd idea within mainstream science, but a cornerstone in making sense of this world (an how it came into existance) from a biblical perspective.The book not only explains, but shows clearly that the evidence is not the problem, but rather how to interpret it. From geology to cosmology, antropology and more scientifical disciplines this book offers a biblical interpration of the evidence we see around us. Strenghts and weaknesses of the biblical interpetation as well as common theories are explained on a purely scientific basis.A must read for everyone who wants to know untill what extent the biblical truth makes sense in todays scientific landscape.