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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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