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Noah’s Flood Revisited

Hugh Ross · New Depths of Insight from Science and Scripture

13 published responses

Response series

Response 1 of 13

Does “All the Earth” Require a Global Flood?

Genesis 6–9 gives a cumulative case for a global Flood. Ross affirms all-human judgment; this YEC response explains why the narrative's water, animals and preservation favor a wider geographical scope.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 12. Biblical Clues to the Flood’s Extent

Response 2 of 13

Do Genealogical Gaps Add Tens of Thousands of Years?

Genesis 5 and 11 give ages as well as relationships. This YEC response answers Ross’s family-line reading: omitted names alone do not add years, and damaged P75 cannot securely settle Cainan’s presence.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 11. Dating Noah’s Flood

Response 3 of 13

What Establishes Ross’s Ancient Date for Noah’s Flood?

Ross’s ancient Flood date depends on identifying biblical events with proposed natural history. This YEC response separates the text’s chronology from those identifications.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 11. Dating Noah’s Flood

Response 4 of 13

Do Creation’s Ocean Boundaries Exclude a Global Flood?

Ross reads the sea-boundary passages as enduring creation limits. This YEC response weighs their creation context alongside Genesis’s Flood judgment and covenant.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 12. Biblical Clues to the Flood’s Extent

Response 5 of 13

Do Biblical “Kinds” Limit the Ark to Regional Species?

Ross links mîn to narrow animal categories and nephesh to human-associated creatures. Genesis names broader animal classes; neither reading alone supplies a modern species inventory.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 12. Biblical Clues; 14. Necessity and Feasibility; 16. Life Before and After the Flood

Response 6 of 13

Does Genesis Establish Ross’s Regional Flood Mechanism?

The Flood calendar supplies real constraints, but does not identify an ice-age melt or Hormuz barrier. Both regional and global models need to explain the text and their physical assumptions.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 11. Dating Noah’s Flood; 13. Scientific Clues; 14. Necessity and Feasibility

Response 7 of 13

What Can Geological Records Establish About Noah’s Flood?

Genesis’s global scope and a model assigning rock layers to the Flood are separate claims. Ross’s archive arguments deserve actual dataset checks; the Palmer’s oak study is not a long counted-ring chronology.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 13. Scientific Clues to the Flood’s Extent

Response 8 of 13

Does Scripture Require Every Physical Constant to Be Unchanged?

Jeremiah’s covenant assurance and Romans’s hope for creation do not specify laboratory constants. This YEC response distinguishes their theological meaning from tests of particular physical models.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 18. Rainbows, Physics, and Noah’s Flood

Response 9 of 13

Do Heat and Radiation Objections Refute a Global Flood?

Heat and radiation are serious objections to proposed accelerated Flood mechanisms. Genesis’s global scope does not supply a physical solution, and Scripture does not require those particular mechanisms.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 13. Scientific Clues to the Flood’s Extent

Response 10 of 13

Do Genesis and Romans 8 Place Carnivory, Pain, and Decay Before the Fall?

This YEC reading connects plant-food provision, the curse and future liberation. It answers Ross's contextual arguments while distinguishing what Genesis and Romans 8 state from a wider Fall-and-restoration interpretation.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 15. “Fantastic” or Factual?; 18. Rainbows, Physics, and Noah’s Flood

Response 11 of 13

What Do Eight Flood Survivors Tell Us About Human Genetic History?

Ross and the YEC reading both affirm eight human survivors. The disagreement concerns chronology and genetic inference: a lineage's common ancestor, retained variation and a complete founding-population model answer different questions.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 16. Life Before and After the Flood

Response 12 of 13

Do Earth’s Biodeposits Establish the Flood’s Age?

Ross’s biological-production argument needs an inventory and explicit accumulation model. The FAO annual-energy estimate is not a universal maximum, and the table cells were unavailable in the text extraction.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 17. The Source of Earth’s Biodeposits

Response 13 of 13

Does Genesis 10:25 Date Peleg to 11,000 Years Ago?

Genesis records a division in Peleg’s days without naming a drowned land bridge. Ross’s date depends on that identification and a conditional lifespan calculation; the chapter’s human geography favors another reading here.

Published Noah’s Flood RevisitedNoah's FloodChapters addressed: 11. Dating Noah’s Flood