How can I prove...?

Question

My science teacher believes that the Noah's ark flood was just a local flood. What are some ways I can prove to him that it was a global flood?

Answer 1

Noah’s Flood covered the whole earth
Many Christians today think the Flood of Noah’s time was only a local flood, confined to somewhere around Mesopotamia. This idea comes not from Scripture, but from the notion of ‘billions of years’ of Earth history.

But look at the problems this concept involves:

If the Flood was local, why did Noah have to build an Ark? He could have walked to the other side of the mountains and missed it.

If the Flood was local, why did God send the animals to the Ark so they would escape death? There would have been other animals to reproduce that kind if these particular ones had died.

If the Flood was local, why was the Ark big enough to hold all kinds of land vertebrate animals that have ever existed? If only Mesopotamian animals were aboard, the Ark could have been much smaller.1

If the Flood was local, why would birds have been sent on board? These could simply have winged across to a nearby mountain range.

If the Flood was local, how could the waters rise to 15 cubits (8 meters) above the mountains (Genesis 7:20)? Water seeks its own level. It couldn’t rise to cover the local mountains while leaving the rest of the world untouched.2

If the Flood was local, people who did not happen to be living in the vicinity would not be affected by it. They would have escaped God’s judgment on sin.3 If this happened, what did Christ mean when He likened the coming judgment of all men to the judgment of ‘all’ men (Matthew 24:37–39) in the days of Noah? A partial judgment in Noah’s day means a partial judgment to come.

If the Flood was local, God would have repeatedly broken His promise never to send such a flood again.

Answer 2

If, in fact, you want to believe that the biblical flood story is legitimate, you can not prove that it was global, obviously. You might be interested in the questioner who yesterday asked whether the polar bears walked to the Arctic following the Flood!! When you begin making such queries, you open the proverbial "hornets' nest" of concepts derived from that, many of them hilarious! If the flood was localized, that idea tends to dilute ( "no pun intended"!) the tale as a moral lesson while also, doubtlessly, confusing and annoying the literal fundamentalists! It appears to be an endless conundrum... And, of course, there are world-wide legends and myths of terrible floods because floods happen! Even in these times floods, tsunamis, hurricanes and other catastrophic events occur regularly/ Before there was written language, there were story-tellers who were not above exaggerating and embellishing their tales.

Answer 3

If the Flood was local, why did Noah have to build an Ark? He could have walked to the other side of the mountains and missed it.

If the Flood was local, why did God send the animals to the Ark so they would escape death? There would have been other animals to reproduce that kind if these particular ones had died.
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If the Flood was local, why was the Ark big enough to hold all kinds of land vertebrate animals that have ever existed? If only Mesopotamian animals were aboard, the Ark could have been much smaller.1

If the Flood was local, why would birds have been sent on board? These could simply have winged across to a nearby mountain range.

If the Flood was local, how could the waters rise to 15 cubits (8 meters) above the mountains (Genesis 7:20)? Water seeks its own level. It couldn’t rise to cover the local mountains while leaving the rest of the world untouched.2

If the Flood was local, people who did not happen to be living in the vicinity would not be affected by it. They would have escaped God’s judgment on sin.3 If this happened, what did Christ mean when He likened the coming judgment of all men to the judgment of ‘all’ men (Matthew 24:37–39) in the days of Noah? A partial judgment in Noah’s day means a partial judgment to come.

If the Flood was local, God would have repeatedly broken His promise never to send such a flood again.

Belief in a world-wide Flood, as Scripture clearly indicates, has the backing of common sense, science and Christ Himself.

Answer 4

When I was in school, I just went along with the program. The teacher is the one that grades you, always remember that. There is no point in rocking the boat. As for proof, you need to search for it. There is a mathmatical formula for the amount of dead people that should be buried, if there was not a catastrophy. Look into it and ask why the earth doesnt have a greater population, or skulls would be scattered everywhere from all of our dead ancesters. The birth rate was definately disrupted. Do the math you start with 2 people 1 million years ago and they have 3 kids. That is a low birth rate for ancient people, but the numbers are enormous.

Answer 5

Honestly if a persons heart is closed to the truth of Gods word, then there is nothing we can do about it, according to the book of Romans.

If you think that there is a chance that this person just wants further proof, then I would suggest a book called ammunition by Norm Sharbaugh

This book documents proofs of large scale flooding across the world. An interesting one is a Beluga whale buried tail down, nose up in diamatacious earth. He was found in California, way away from the land of Noah.

Answer 6

Considering that there has never been a global flood there's no way you can prove it. There is no geological evidence to support it.

Answer 7

You can't, because it didn't happen. There's no evidence for a global flood.

Edit: OK Holly, that's not a useful argument. That's like saying 'if aliens don't exist, then why are they probing people?'. The WHOLE STORY is made up, from the flood to the ark to the dove. It's all fake.

Answer 8

Tell your science teacher to read Genesis 6, 7 & 8.The answer will be revealed in those three chapters.

Answer 9

Find a uniform layer of sediment in the rocks that would be left over from such an event. The problem you have is that it doesn't exist.

Tree ring growth patterns are mapped back 10,000 plus years in several areas. They show no flood.

Basically what I am saying is that you can't. There is no evidence for it and a lot of evidence that it didn't happen.

Answer 10

You can't.
There is absolutely NO evidence to support a global flood. None.
Anyone who says differently is lying.
If there was a flood, it was a local one that got blown out of proportion. (stories become legend, legend becomes myth, myth becomes religion, religion becomes reality to the believers)

Not to mention the fact that the proportions given for the ark in the bible, would make the vessel collapse under it's own weight. Every christian carefully avoids that subject of course...