The book of Genesis tells of a catastrophic flood that covered the entire planet and killed off all living creatures that were not on Noah’s Ark. This was not merely a local flood according to the Bible; the water covered the entire planet and sea level rose at least 20 feet above the tallest mountains. Hence why Noah had to board pairs of all living creatures, including birds, onto his Ark so they could later reproduce and repopulate the world again.

There is only one small historical problem with this story,
such a flood never occurred.

8.	Tree Rings Tree ring records tell us of climate changes over the past 10,000 years and they don’t show that such a catastrophe occurred during the supposed time of the “Great Flood,” or at all.

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Polar Ice Caps Ice cores from Greenland have been dated back more than 40,000 years by counting annual layers. A worldwide flood would leave a layer of sediments, noticeable changes in salinity and oxygen isotope ratios, fractures from buoyancy and thermal stresses, a hiatus in trapped air bubbles, and other evidence yet no such evidence exists.

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Fresh Water Fish Would Not Have Survived Most fresh water fish can’t live in salt water, if the Earth was covered in water then all the fresh waterwould have been mixed up in the salt water. Not to mention a flood would cause the water to be extremely diluted with dirt that most modern species of fish would not have survived at all.

5.	Modern Plants Would Not Have Survived Many plants that are around today, including their seeds, would be killed if they were submerged in water (especially salt water) for 150 days. Most plants also require established soils to grow which would have been stripped away by the flood.

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The Ark Could Not Float The Bible says the ark was made entirely of wood and was about 450 feet long but as history (and any boat manufacture) will tell us, a wooden vessel that size would not stay afloat. An ark of that size and made of wood will break apart right away from all the stress, even without all the animals on it. Wood is simply not strong enough to prevent separation between the joints. The longest wooden ships are only about 300 feet long, 150 less than Noah’s, and even in ancient times they required reinforcing with iron straps. Even then they still leaked so badly they constantly required pumping.

3.	Impossible Water Supply According to the Bible the entire world was covered in water during the flood, even the top of the highest mountains. To cover the Earth like that it would take 5 times the amount of water in the oceans. Where did all that water come from?

Did it come from Rain? Nope, even if it rained nonstop for 40 days and 40 nights there would still not be enough water.		Did it come from Geysers? The Bible mentions that the earth opened up and water for the flood spat out of the geysers. If all the underground water was released then the Earth’s crust would have crumbled and formed into quicksand. Geysers also pump out mass amounts of sulfuric acid. If that many geysers were active at once there would have been so much sulfuric acid in the air that Noah, his family, and all the animals would have been unable to breath and died on the spot.
Did it come from Ice Caps? Nope, we know how much water is in the ocean, in the atmosphere, in the rocks and in the polar ice caps. If we combined all that water together it would still not be nearly enough.		Did it come from Comets? Comets contain a lot of water and some creationists like Kent Hovind claim the water for the flood came from such a comet. In order to have enough water to flood all of Earth the comet would have to be 1,000 miles wide. The impact from such a comet would force the Earth’s temperature to 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s even hotter than the surface of the sun. Every living creature including Noah would have been instantly wiped out. It would not make a difference if it was one giant comet or thousands of smaller comets.

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Atmospheric Pressure Since all natural means fail, let’s say that God magically made enough water appear. That solves the problem of where all the water came from but unfortunately just having that much water causes another huge problem. The amount of water needed to cover the planet would have dramatically changed the Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere would have a massive amount of water vapors dissolved in it, so much that Noah would have literally drowned just by breathing. Plus there would be so much atmospheric pressure that his bones would have been crushed. The obvious fact that humans exist today proves that there was never that much water on Earth in human history.

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The biggest problems with the Bible’s story of a world wide flood is it’s claim that the entire human race and all other living creatures were wiped out with the exception of the lucky few who were abord the ark. There is no such evidence for a global catastrophe in the archaeological record, only extensive evidence for the contrary. Had there been a disaster that reduced the world’s human population to a mere handful while destroying most cultural artifacts, it must inevitably have taken at least centuries to get civilization back up and running again. The newer civilizations would have also been considerably different from the old as no one ever rebuilds something exactly the same as it was before. Finally there would have only been a single civilization after the flood since Noah’s family would have been the only ones around to get things going again for the human race. Alas, the archaeological record shows us that various civilizations around the world and the human race carried on in a steady fashion before, during, and after the flood supposedly took place with no evidence of such a disaster. Nowhere in the history of modern man has life ever been bottle-nosed down to just 8 people.





Above is the historically accurate world population of humans from 10000 BCE to 2000 CE followed by what this chart would look like if you insert claims from the Christian doctrine. The Bible completely ignores the massive human population before 4000 BCE and claims that there are only two people in existence at this time. Later around 2000 BCE the Bible claims the human population dropped down to just 8 people, Noah and his family. Needless to say the Bible is off by a colossal factor.