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          BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS FOR A WORLDWIDE FLOOD.

excerpt from: The Remarkable Birth of the Planet Earth
                        by Henry Morris

Copied by permission from: BETHANY HOUSE PUBLISHERS,
                           Minneapolis, MN  55438

Appendix A-1

GENESIS TEXT:              ARGUMENT:

1.   1:7.......Water above the atmosphere must have been
               global in extent.
2.   2:5.......No rain upon the earth must have been
               worldwide condition.
3.   2:5.......Earth mist watered the whole face of the
               ground.
4.   2:10-14...Edenic geography no longer in existence.
5.   4:22......High civilization at dawn of history not
               continuous with present world.
6.   5:5,-.....Longevity of antediluvian patriarchs indicates
               distinctive biosphere.
7.   6:1.......Man had multiplied on the face of the earth.
8.   6:2......*Demonic-human unions coextensive with mankind
9.   6:5.......Universal evil inexplicable in post-diluvian
               society.
10.  6:6-7.....Repentance of God extended to the whole animal
               creation.
11.  6:11......Earth was filled with violence and corruption
               before God.
12.  6:12......All flesh was corrupted (possibly including
               animals).
13.  6:13......God decided to destroy both man and the earth.
14.  6:15......Ark too large for regional fauna.
15.  6:17......Everything with the breath  of life to die.
16.  6:19......Purpose of ark was to keep two of every sort
               alive.
17.  6:20......Animals of all kinds migrated to the ark.
18.  6:21......All kinds of edible food taken on the ark.
19.  7:4.......Every living substance on the ground to be
               destroyed.
20.  7:10......"The flood" (Hebrew MABBUL) applies solely to
               Noah's flood.
21.  7:11......All the fountains of the great deep cleaved
               open in one day.
22.  7:11......The "sluiceways from the floodgates" of heaven
               were opened.
23.  7:12..... Rain poured continuously for forty days and
               forty nights.
24.  7:18......The waters prevailed and increased greatly.
25.  7:19......High hills under the whole heaven were
               covered.
26.  7:20......Waters fifteen cubits above highest mountains.
27.  7:21......Every man died on earth.
28.  7:22..... All flesh with the breath of life in the dry
               land died.
29.  7:23......Every living substance destroyed off the face
               of the ground.
30.  7:24......Waters at maximum height for five months.
31.  8:2.......Fountains of deep open for five months.
32.  8:2.......Windows of heaven open for five months.
33.  8:4.......Ark floated over 17,000 ft. mountains for five
               months.
34.  8:5.......Water receded 2 1/2 months before mountain
               tops seen.
35.  8:9.......Dove found no suitable ground even after four
               months of recession.
36.  8:11......Plants began budding after nine months of the
               flood.
37.  8:14......Occupants were in the ark over a year.
38.  8:19......All kinds of present non-marine animals came
               from the ark.
39.  8:21......God smote all things living only once.
40.  8:22......Present uniformity of nature dates from the
               end of the flood.
41.  9:1.......Earth was to be filled with descendants of
               Noah.
42.  9:2.......Changed relation between man and animals
               followed the flood.
43.  9:3.......Man permitted animal food after flood.
44.  9:6.......Institution of human government dates from
               flood.
45.  9:10......God's covenant made with every living
               creature.
46.  9:11......The flood promised by God never to come again
               on the earth.
47.  9:13......Rainbow placed in sky after the flood.
48.  9:19......Whole earth overspread of the sons of Noah.
49.  11:1......Whole earth of one language after the flood.
50.  11:9......All men lived in one place after the flood.

OTHER TEXTS
1. Job 12:15...The waters overturned the earth.
2. Ps. 29:10...The flood testified God as eternal king.
3. Ps. 104:8...Flood terminated by crustal tectonics.
4. Is. 55:9....Waters of Noah went over the earth.
5. Mt. 24:37...The days of Noah like those when Christ comes.
6. Mt. 24:39...The flood took them all away.
7. Lk. 17:27...The flood destroyed them all.
8. Heb. 11:7...Noah warned of things never seen before.
9. Heb. 11:7...Noah condemned the world by his faith.
10. 1Pe 3:20...Only eight souls saved on the ark through the
               flood.
11. 2Pe 2:5....God spared not the old world (Greek; KOSMOS).
12. 2Pe 2:5....God brought the flood on the world of the
               ungodly.
13. 2Pe 2:5....The "flood" (Greek KATAKLUSMOS) applied solely
               to Noah's flood.
14. 2Pe 3:6....The world that them was perished by the watery
               cataclysm.

* (Item #8 is subject to speculation; -copier.)
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Appendix A-2

         NON-BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS FOR WORLDWIDE FLOOD

1.   Worldwide distribution of flood traditions.
2.   Origin of civilization near Ararat-Babylon region in
     post-flood time.
3.   Convergence of population growth statistics on date of
     flood.
4.   Dating of oldest living things at post-flood time.
5.   Worldwide occurrence of water-laid sediments and
     sedimentary rocks.
6.   Recent uplift of major mountain ranges.
7.   Marine fossils on crests of mountains.
8.   Evidence of former worldwide warm climate.
9.   Necessity of catastrophic burial and rapid lithification
     of fossil deposits.
10.  Recent origin of many datable geological processes.
11.  Worldwide distribution of all types of fossils.
12.  Uniform physical appearance of rocks from different
     "ages".
13.  Frequent mixing of fossils from different "ages".
14.  Near-random deposition of formational sequences.
15.  Equivalence of total organic material in present world
     and fossil world.
16.  Wide distribution of recent volcanic rocks.
17.  Evidence of recent water bodies in present desert areas.
18.  Worldwide occurrence of raised shore lines and river
     terraces.
19.  Evidence of recent drastic rise in sea level.
20.  Universal occurrence of rivers in valleys too large for
     the present stream.
21.  Sudden extinction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric
     animals.
22.  Rapid onset of glacial period.
23.  Existence of polystrate fossils.
24.  Preservation of tracks and other ephemeral markings
     throughout geologic column.
25.  Worldwide occurrence of sedimentary fossil "graveyards"
     in rocks of all "ages".
26.  Absence of any physical evidence of chronologic boundary
     between rocks of successive "ages".
27.  Occurrence of all rock types (shale, limestone, granite,
     etc.) in all "ages".
28.  Parallel of supposed evolutionary sequence through
     different "ages" with modern ecological zonation in the
     one present age.
29.  Lack of correlation of most radiometric "ages" with
     assumed paleontologic "ages".
30.  Absence of meteorites in geologic column.
31.  Absence of hail imprints in geologic column, despite
     abundance of fossil ripple-marks and raindrop imprints.
32.  Evidence of man's existence during earliest of geologic
     "ages" (e.g., human footprints in Cambrian Carbon-
     iferous, and Cretaceous formations).
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Appendix B

          New Testament References to Genesis 1-11

NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCE       TOPIC         GENESIS REFERENCE

1.  Matthew 19:4.........Created male and female.....5:2
2.  Matthew 19:5-6.......Cleave unto his wife........2:24
3.  Matthew 23:35........Righteous Abel..............4:4
4.  Matthew 24:37-39.....Days of Noah................6:3-5
5.  Mark 10:6............God made them...............1:26-27
6.  Mark 10:7-9..........One flesh...................2:24
7.  Mark 13:19...........Creation which God created..2:4
8.  Luke 1:70............Prophets since the
                         world began.................4:26
9.  Luke 3:34-36.........Son of Thara..of Shem.......11:10-24
10. Luke 3:36-38.........Son of Noe..of Adam.........5:3-29
11. Luke 11:50-51........Blood of Abel...............4:8-11
12. Luke 17:26-27........The flood came and
                         destroyed them all..........7:10-23
13. John 1:1-3...........In the beginning God........1:1
14. John 1:10............World made by Him...........2:3
15. John 8:44............Father of lies..............3:4-5
16. Acts 3:21............Restoration of all things...5:29
17. Acts 4:25............All that in them is.........2:1
18. Acts 14:15...........Fruitful seasons............8:21-22
19. Acts 17:24...........God made all things.........1:31
20. Acts 17:26...........All nations on
                         face of earth...............10:32
21. Romans 1:20..........Things that were made.......2:4-6
22. Romans 5:12..........Death by sin................2:17
23. Romans 5:14.19.......Death reigned from Adam.....4:5-31
24. Romans 8:20-22.......Bondage of corruption.......3:17-18
25. Romans 16:20....... .Satan bruised under foot....3:15
26. 1 Cor. 6:16..........One flesh...................2:24
27. 1 Cor. 11:3..........Head of the woman...........3:16
28. 1 Cor. 11:7..........In the image of God.........1:27
29. 1 Cor. 11:8-9........Woman of the man............2:23
30. 1 Cor. 15:21-22......By man came death...........3:19
31. 1 Cor. 15:38-39......Every seed his own body...1:11,21,24
32. 1 Cor. 15:45.........Adam a living soul......... 2:7
33. 1 Cor. 15:47.........Man of the earth............3:23 34.
2 Cor.  4:6 .............Light out of darkness.......1:3-5
35.  2 Cor.  11:3........Serpent beguiled Eve
                         through subtlety............3:1-6
36. Galatians 4:4........His Son, made of a woman....3:15
37.  Galatians 4:26......Mother of us all............3:20
38.  Ephesians 3:9.......Created all things..........2:3
39.  Ephesians 5:30-31...Bone of His bone............2:23-24
40.  Colossians 1:16.....All things created..........2:1-3
41.  Colossians 3:10.....Created in His image........1:27
42.  1 Timothy 2:13-15...Bone of His bone............2:23-24
43.  Hebrews 1:10........Earth and heavens
                         in the beginning............1:1
44. Hebrews 27-8.........All things in sub-
                         jection under Him...........9:2
45. Hebrews 4:3..........Words were finished.........2:1
46. Hebrews 4:4..........Rest on the seventh day.....2:2
47. Hebrews 4:10.........Ceased from His works.......2:3
48. Hebrews 11:4.........Abel a more excellent
                         sacrifice...................4:3-5
49. Hebrews 11:5.........Enoch translated............5:21-24
50. Hebrews 11:7.........Noah saved his house........7:1
51. Hebrews 12:24........Blood of Abel...............4:10
52. James 3:9............Men in the similitude
                         of God......................5:1
53. 1 Peter 3:20.........Preparing of the ark........6:14-16
54. 2 Peter 2:4..........Angels that sinned..........6:1
55. 2 Peter 2:5..........God spared not
                         the old world...............6:8-12
56. 2 Peter 3:4-5........Out of the water and
                         in the water................1:5-7
57. 2 Peter 3:6..........Overflowed with water.......7:17-24
58. 1 John 3:8...........Devil sinneth from
                         the beginning...............3:14
59. 1 John 3:12..........Cain slew his brother.......4:8,25
60. Jude :6..............Angels left their own
                         habitation..................6:4
61. Jude :11.............The way of Cain.............4:16
62. Jude :14-:15.........Enoch, the seventh
                         from Adam...................6:18-24
63. Revelation 2:7.......Tree of life................2:9
64. Revelation 3:14......Beginning of the
                         creation of God.............3:14
65. Revelation 4:11......Created all things..........2:3
66. Revelation 10:6......Created heaven and
                         earth and all things........2:1
67. Revelation 12:1-4....Seed of the woman...........3:15
68. Revelation 12:9......That old serpent............3:14
69. Revelation 12:13-17..Enmity between thee and
                         the woman...................3:15
70. Revelation 14:7......He that made heaven
                         and earth...................2:4
71. Revelation 17:5......Babylon, the mother
                         of abominations.............10:8-11
72. Revelation 17:18.....That great city.............11:4-5
73. Revelation 20:10.....The dragon, that
                         old serpent.................3:1
74. Revelation 21:1......First heaven and
                         first earth.................2:1
75. Revelation 21:4......No more death, or
                         sorrow, or crying, or pain..3:17-19
76. Revelation 22:2......Fruit of the tree of life...3:22
77. Revelation 22:3......No more curse...............3:14-19

Note: All New Testament books except Philippians, 1 and 2
Thessalonians, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, 2 and 3 John have
references to Genesis 1-11. Every chapter of Genesis 1-11 is
referred to somewhere in the New Testament. Every New
Testament writer refers to Genesis 1-11.  Jesus Christ
referred to Genesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

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