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A primary obstacle to discussing The Flood with a Young Earther has to do with how you read the scripture.  Many will say that you have to read it literally.  Personally, I find that quite appealing.  However, as you read through The Flood’s account, you immediately find yourself having to relax that rule when God says he is going to wipe out “all” of mankind… but is going to save Noah and his family.  Clearly, Noah is a man, yet God clearly separated him from the “all” that he was referring to.  Apparently, even when the word “all” is used by God, God still reserves the right to list exceptions. 

So, backing off the strictly literal method of interpretation, one can still insist that …

13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
As I wrote in Genesis 6:9-12 - Destroying All Mankind… Adam’s descendants that is… except the righteous ones, all refers to all the evil descendants of Adam.  The reason for using “all”, when God clearly did not mean Noah and his family, is that God separated them from those to whom God referred.  The statement must have been a shock to Noah, having been a …

 9 This is the account of Noah.
      Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 …

So far, I have laid down the following guidelines for interpreting The Flood in scripture:

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe - All evidence for global catastrophe (that I have found) was created by the KT impact or the ancient ocean of 4.5 billion years ago.  This leaves no evidence for a recent global flood.  Therefore, the Bible is documenting a regional flood.

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 3 - Evidence of Mankind - Scripture and mankind appear to agree …

One of the problems with biblical interpretation is the apparent assumption that what the Bible says is all there is to know.  “The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it.” is a common mantra… and I agree with it, as far as it goes.  The problem is that we do not always realize what is with which we agree.  The Bible makes it seem like the Earth is at the center of the universe.  Well, it isn’t.  However, it is at the center of God’s plan for the universe.  So, Christians then and now still believe the Bible, and yet believe different things.  It makes arguing against unbeliever rather difficult, but that aside, we need only acknowledge that …

As I wrote in Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe, any physical evidence for The Flood used by Creation Scientists generally points at the KT Impact 65 million years ago, or at the global ocean that first formed on the earth around 4.5 billion years ago.  Furthermore, these two global events are strong evidence for God’s sequence of Creation recorded in Genesis 1.  This tells us that whatever else is true, The Flood was not a global event.  Otherwise, there would be evidence of it, and there is not.  However, this also tells us something else: …

In Problems with Interpreting the Flood, I discussed some of the problems with Creation Science’s approach to interpreting scripture and scientific evidence, as they apply to The Flood.  As I discussed, when I encounter a battle between experts, I will compare their arguments, and compare their descriptions of each others’ arguments.  What I have found is that Creation Scientists cannot explain all of the evidence brought forth by old earth proponents; old earth proponents however can address all of the evidence brought forth by Creation Scientists.  Old earth proponents can also accurately describe the concerns and approach of Creation Scientists; the opposite I am afraid does not appear to be true.

However, …

While posting on the 7 Days of Creation and Righteousness for the last several years, I have been researching various theories on The Great Flood.  However, I have wanted to avoid posting any actual theory on The Flood until my analysis of Genesis 1-6 had played itself out, and I could see exactly how my theories of Geocreationism would weigh in to the argument.

Generally speaking, I never accepted The Flood as a global flood since I was a child.  I always knew the scripture was true, and assumed I would eventually understand the evidence for it.  I have studied the Creation Science for a recent global flood, and the secular science arguing against no flood at all.  Of particular interest to …

 5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” 
Genesis 6:5-7 is an interesting passage.  Christians use it to teach how much God hates sin; skeptics use it to teach how …

As we saw in Genesis 6 - God’s Decision, the evil heart of man was causing God great pain and grief.  He regretted making them.  However, before we go on, it bears our attention to contemplate exactly who it was that God regretted making.

As we discussed in Genesis 6 - Causing God Strife, Genesis 6 appears to discuss spiritual man as if he is all there is of mankind.  But, as we also discussed in Genesis 5 - Proof that Adam was born, spiritual man is not all …