Genesis gives the Flood more room than the creation itself — a year aboard a wooden ship while the world was unmade and remade. Here it is as Scripture gives it: the vessel to scale, the waters by the day, and the flood traditions kept on every inhabited continent.
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills… were covered.” — Genesis 7:19 (KJV)
Genesis 6–9. One righteous man, a warning of judgment, a covenant of rescue — and a door that God Himself shut.
“…The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.” — Genesis 6:15 (KJV). A 30 : 5 : 3 hull.
Genesis records the Flood almost to the day. Follow the tide as it rises over the world and slowly draws back — a year and ten days from the first rain to dry ground. Genesis 7:11–8:14
If a global flood truly happened, the families that scattered from it would carry the memory — and on every inhabited continent, they do. Hundreds of flood traditions have been catalogued — one recent collection gathers more than 300 from the Americas alone. Here are fourteen. Spin the globe, or choose a people, and read their account.
On the flood traditions and what the shared memory might mean: GotQuestions — hundreds of flood legends? · Answers in Genesis — Worldwide Flood Legends · Gilgamesh & Genesis · Britannica — Flood Myth. All four are on the Sources & Resources page.
Mainstream geology reads these layers over deep time; flood geologists read the same rocks as the signature of one global catastrophe. The features they point to:
Single beds of water-laid sedimentary rock stretch for thousands of miles — the Earth's crust is wrapped in stacked layers, often miles deep, laid down by moving water.
Billions of dead things, buried fast in those layers — vast graveyards of creatures preserved whole, the way rapid burial under sediment preserves, not slow exposure.
Roughly 95% of all fossils are marine creatures — and they are found atop the highest mountains, as if the oceans once covered the continents.
Noah’s family lived aboard the Ark for about a year. No local flood lasts that long, covers the high mountains, or needs a ship provisioned for a year — the text describes a global event.
Genesis 6:21; 7:11, 19–20; 8:14
Primary source: Genesis 6–9, quoted on this page from the King James Version.
Perspective & evidence: Answers in Genesis ·
Institute for Creation Research ·
Creation Ministries International ·
KRISO hull study (Hong et al., 1994) ·
GotQuestions.
More on the Sources & Resources page.