That absurd as it may sound to our modern minds, that there is overwhelming support from the fossil record, catastrophic geology, archaeology etc that an actual worldwide global flood did happen.

As for Noah building an ark, well that is a matter for personal faith, however where the biblica account could have fallen apart, for example getting the dimensions of the ark wrong, getting the cause of a worldwide flood wrong and getting the timscale of such an event wrong amazingly the bible is correct on all those matters.

Now I'm not saying it must be true, but intrinsically the story holds together.

If the size of the ark, the shape of the ark etc were wrong it could easily be proved that it couldnt have happened, but as I have said modern tests have shown by rebuilding replica's of the ark on a much smaller size scale that it's practically impossible to upturn or sink the damn thing.

That alone would be an impressive fact for some primitve goatherder of 600 years before Christ to get right.

When you factor in that the bible says the flood was caused by the foundations of the earth breaking apart, rather than rainfall as other accounts say it is another remarkable accuracy. Rainfall alone couldnt flood the earth it would be impossible, only massive tectonic activity as the bible describes could.

Did it happen? That's for indiviuals to decide. It certainly cannot be proven.

Has science been able to prove that it couldn't have happened?


Suprisingly, no they can't.