The Importance of Resolution In other words, the clash between young-earth creationism and science, particularly the disciplines of astronomy, physics, and geology, cannot be resolved until the conflict between “flood geology” and these disciplines is understood and resolved.

What few YECs and even fewer research scientists recognize, however, is that flood geology did not emerge from YEC ideology. Rather, the two “doctrines” developed together.

Another important interpretive factor is vocabulary. Too often through the centuries, Bible readers have failed to consider the variety of meanings associated with certain Hebrew words used in the account. Even a cursory reading, however, can be helpful in evaluating the plausibility of various scholars’ claims to have discovered when, where, and

(see chapter 15).

Genesis 6–7 is explicit, however, in declaring that all humans and all their animals except those aboard Noah’s ark were wiped out by Noah’s flood. The words “all,” “every,” and “everything” appear more than 40 times in Genesis 6–8. This repetition seems counter to the idea that Noah’s flood impacted only a fraction, rather than the totality, of

not even the most fleet-footed and fit of humanity’s

One contributor to the problem is the erroneous belief that Genesis tells the whole biblical story of Noah’s flood. Even people who attend church regularly seem to think Genesis is the only book that speaks about Noah and the events of his day, but it isn’t.

None of these melt events would have been sufficiently catastrophic to wipe out all humans and their animals living at that time.

Ice Age Floods Since the beginning of the human era, the most dramatic flooding of Earth would have occurred during the last ice age, which lasted from 120,000 to 12,000 years ago.