04.06. The Worldwide Flood
The Worldwide Flood The only people that experienced and survived the worldwide flood were Noah and his immediate family. (8 people in all) They would have been able to pass on the accounts of events prior to the flood and the flood account. There is much evidence of the flood as evidenced by the various scientific disciplines1. We have evidence that the flood deposited the “geological column” and the fossils contained therein2. Ministries such as Answers in Genesis, Associates for Biblical Research, Creation Ministries International have a lot of information on the subject.
It is interesting to note that written records start sometime after the flood. Dating of the earliest records dates to just a few hundred years after the flood which was about 3298 BC.3 (Comprehensive time line). It is during this time that we find accounts of creation and the flood4,5,. This is also when archaeology reveals the dispersion from Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) as this is the approximate area where Noah and his descendants originally settled. Sargon of Akkad has been identified6 with Nimrod, a descendant of Ham. Abraham left Ur of the Chaldeans a few years prior to it being overthrown by the Gutians coming from the Zagros mountains. They incorporated a hit and run type of warfare in the area and were already doing this when Abraham was a young man.
