“As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
A global flood once covered every mountain on Earth, killing all land life except one boatload of survivors.
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What current science says
To cover Mount Everest (8,849 meters), you'd need about 4.4 billion cubic kilometers of extra water — roughly three times all the water currently on Earth. Where did it come from? Where did it go? There's zero geological evidence for a global flood: no worldwide sediment layer, no mass extinction event matching the timeline, and ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica show continuous layers going back hundreds of thousands of years with no flood interruption. Also, fitting millions of species on one boat is a logistics nightmare that makes rush-hour subway look spacious.
What the text says
This comes from Matthew 24:37, where the global flood of Noah is referenced as a literal historical event. The flood narrative itself appears in Genesis 6-9, describing water covering 'all the high mountains under the whole heaven.'
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
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