The Flood is the second-largest narrative in Genesis — 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 memory of the flood written into nearly every people on earth.
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills… were covered.” — Genesis 7:19
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. A 30 : 5 : 3 hull — the very ratio modern naval architects prize for stability in heavy seas.
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. More than two hundred flood traditions have been catalogued; 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. Every source is 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.
The Ark floated for about a year. No local flood lasts that long, drowns mountains, or needs a year-built ship — the text describes a global event.
Genesis 7:24; 8:3–14
Primary source: Genesis 6–9.
Perspective & evidence: Answers in Genesis ·
Institute for Creation Research ·
Creation Ministries International ·
GotQuestions.
Full list on the Sources & Resources page.