AY Honor Noah's Flood Answer Key

Noah's Flood

Skill Level

2

Year

2025

Version

03.09.2025

Approval authority

North American Division

1

Define catastrophism. Would Noah’s flood be included in this definition?

Webster's Dictionary defines it as: a violent and sudden change in a feature of the earth. Yes, Noah’s flood would be included.

2

Read Genesis 6-9:19 and read Patriarchs & Prophets, chapters 7-8. Afterward, answer these questions based on your reading.

2a

How many days did it rain during the flood and how long did the water continue to rise? How many days until the waters receded enough so the ark could be exited?

It rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and the water continued to rise for 150 days. It took 370 days for the water to dry up and Noah and his family to leave the ark.

2b

How was life different before the flood versus after?

The ground was now harder to work as all of the rich topsoil from Creation had been washed away. Also the earth now showed the scars of the flood of destruction. Because of these changes as well as others, men no longer had the lifespan that their forefathers had.

2c

Why were some animals brought into the ark by twos and some by sevens?

The clean animals were brought in by 7 because people would eat meat after the flood and would need a better supply on the earth for food. The unclean animals would not be killed for food so they would have a better survival rate per generation. Also, Noah sacrificed one of each clean animal to the Lord after exiting the Ark.

2d

What were the dimensions of the ark in feet (or meters)? Do you believe it could have been larger or smaller? Explain your answer.

If we conservatively assume the cubit used by Noah was 18 inches (.45 meters), we end up with an Ark that was 450 feet (137 meters) long, 75 feet (22.8 meters) wide, and 45 feet (13.7 meters) high. If we assume a 19 inch (.48 meters) cubit, we end up with a 475 feet (144.8 meters) long, 79.1 feet (24.1 meters) wide, and 47.5 feet (14.4 meters) high. Because we do not know the height of Noah, we do not know how large his cubit was, tradition holds Noah was 12 feet tall. But God may have related to Moses in the cubit of his day.

3

Read Matthew 24:37. What are some of the things you think are happening today that were going on in the days of Noah that caused the destruction of man?

Some of those things would have been killing, drunkenness, immorality, war, disease. The Bible says there is nothing new under the sun so many of the evils going on today were going on in Noah's day in some form.

4

As you think back to the text you have read so far and the chapters in Patriarchs and Prophets, how can the fossil record be used as evidence of a worldwide flood?

Evidence shows the fossils were buried by water and it was an event that spread over all the earth and covered the tallest mountain.

5

List three geological formations that indicate a worldwide flood and not a local flood.

One formation we have would be the sedimentary layers we have all over the earth that are full of fossils. Another is the layers of rock that are uplifted and bent at sharp angles, that can only happen when they are soft and would not happen if it took millions of years to lay them down. You can also trace the flow of sediments, some are spread from one continent to another, and that cannot happen in a local flood. You can look at areas such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone although they may not have been caused by the flood they were caused by the aftereffects and show much evidence of a worldwide flood in areas where they expose the depths of the earth. In all we can look at the weathered mountain and great river and other features of the world we live in and can see the scars of this great flood still present today.

6

Look at the fossil record of how animals before the flood were different from the ones alive today. Explain why you believe they are different and how it happened. Then tell how non-creationist evolutionary scientists believe the changes happened.

The fossils of the Linxia Giant Rhino were found in the Linxia basin in Gansu Province, northwestern China. The huge animal would have weighed 24 tons and was the same size as six elephants. Its shoulders were more than 16 feet off the ground, the head at 23 feet, and its body was 26 feet long

A newly discovered species of three-foot-long (one-meter-long) platypus, dubbed Obdurodon tharalkooschild, swam through freshwater pools in Australian forests about 5 to 15 million years ago, according to a new study. That’s a much bigger critter than a modern-day platypus, which at 15 inches (38 centimeters) long is about the size of a small domestic cat. Information from National Geographic.

Mukupirna is the closest fossil relative of the wombat family as a whole. The skull and partial skeleton of the creature were unearthed in the Lake Eyre basin of South Australia. This is a big animal, it is probably around 150 kg in weight, so about five times the size of a living wombat.

Glyptodons were enormous armored mammals that became extinct around 10,000 years ago. Roughly the size of a VW Beetle, the glyptodon were well-armored against attacks from predators. A relative of modern-day armadillos.

The Argentavis has the distinction of being the largest flying bird ever discovered. The massive bird could grow to be 24 feet, wingtip to wingtip, twice the size of the Andean condor.

Megalania (Varanus priscus), whose name translates to “ancient great roamer” was a giant carnivorous goanna that may have grown up to 23 feet long and weighed more than 4,000 pounds. It was a relative of our modern-day monitor lizard.

The ground sloth weighed up to 9,000 pounds and stretched 20 feet in length.

The megalodon (whose name means “giant tooth”) can be best thought of as a giant great white shark — in fact, it was the largest shark that has ever lived. It was a highly capable predator sitting at the top of the food web. It could grow to be more than 50 feet in length and sported teeth seven inches long. New research has discovered that the length of the shark may be even larger, as much as twice as the 50 feet before stated. This comes from the University of Florida.

The daeodon, like the megalodon, is worthy of a healthy dose of fear. They were enormous hulking towers of brawny pig. They could grow to be six feet high at the shoulder and weigh thousands of pounds. It’s telling of their dominance of the food web that they belong to a family of animals nicknamed “hell pig” and “terminator pig.”

Giant otters (Siamogale melilutra) the size of wolves and weighing up to 110 pounds (twice the size of modern-day otters) lived in what is now Asia.

Giant beavers were larger versions of today’s furry little landscape engineers and the largest rodent of the last ice age. They could grow more than eight feet in length and tip the scales at 200 pounds. Think of a beaver the size of a black bear.

Gigantopithecus was a pretty big Ape. Fossils indicate it stood as high as 10 feet (3 meters) and weighed up to 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms).

Discovered in the Indonesian village of Ngandong, the Ngandong Tiger was a Pleistocene predecessor of the still-extant Bengal Tiger. The difference is that Ngandong Tiger males may have grown to a whopping 1,000 pounds.

Elk-moose, this massive prehistoric deer lived in modern-day North America. It weighed around 1,500 pounds and stood 12 feet tall.

American cave lion, is an extinct pantherine cat that lived in North America. Its fossils have been excavated from Alaska to Mexico. It was about 25% larger than the modern lion, making it one of the largest known felids.

Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects. They resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies and damselflies. With a wingspan ranging from 65 cm (25.6 in) to over 70 cm (28 in) and is one of the largest-known flying insect species. Meganeura were first discovered in Coal Measures of Commentary, France in 1880.

A Princeton resident discovered the fossil of a giant, ancient ant in the nearby Allenby Formation, a rock formation that contains many plant and animal fossils. Researchers say it’s the first known Canadian specimen from the genus Titanomyrma, meaning “Titanic Ant.” Scientists estimate the gargantuan insects may have been about half a foot long.

These are only some of the larger animals that existed before the flood. Creationists theorize that there was a higher oxygen content before the flood as well as a richer topsoil layer, which allowed them to grow larger and live longer.

Evolutionist theorize the following reasons explain the larger size of these animals:

• Oxygen levels were much higher prior to the extinction of these animals.
• The animals evolved larger size as a defensive mechanism which gave them an advantage when fighting off predators.
• Hollow bones were able to support larger bodies without adding additional weight. They also had more surface area which supported more efficient exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
• The warmer, moister climate supplied more abundant food resources.

7

Research and explain why you believe there are so few fossils of man in the fossil record.

Only 0.0125% of fossils are vertebrates, mostly fish. (95% of land vertebrates consist of less than one bone, and 95% of mammal fossils are from the Ice Age after the Flood.

1. Land animals and humans have a low fossilization potential. We would expect few fossils from them.
2. If the Flood buried a multitude of people and distributed their bodies among the world’s sedimentary rocks, finding even one human fossil in such a vast area would be unlikely.
3. Underwater mudflows during the Flood would have ground human bones to powder.
4. Floodwaters receding off continents might have likewise pulverized them.
5. Catastrophic geological processes may have buried ancient continents in their entirety, virtually erasing all evidence of people.
6. Whoever discovers a pre-Flood human bone or bone fragment might not identify it as such, since that finding would not fit evolutionary expectations.
7. The pre-Flood population might have been quite small, considering Genesis 6:13’s statement that “the earth was filled with violence.”

7a

List three different fossils of man found in the fossil record and tell why you believe they were able to survive the flood.

Perhaps the fossilized human skeletons that come closest to having been pre-Flood humans buried in Flood strata are those skeletons found at Moab, Utah (USA).5 In a copper mine there, two definitely human skeletons were found in Cretaceous “age”; sandstone (supposedly more than 65 million years old), the bones still joined together naturally and stained green with copper carbonate. While many regard these bones as recently buried, there still remains the remote possibility that they are pre-Flood human “fossils.”

The controversial Guadeloupe skeletons are another case in point. Without wishing to take sides in the debate, and in any case the hard data are still inconclusive either way, the fact remains that even if perchance these skeletons were so-called Miocene, that in and of itself, would still not prove that the skeletons were in Flood sediments and therefore represented the remains of pre-Flood people. Being a subdivision of the so-called Tertiary, these Miocene rocks may still be post-Flood sediments and so these Guadeloupe skeletons may still not be human fossils from Noah’s Flood.

The London Artifact was discovered in June, 1934 by Frank and Emma Hahn near London, Texas. This artifact is a metal hammer in Cretaceous rock. The hammer is composed of 96.6% iron, 0.74% sulfur, and 2.6% chlorine.

The Creation Evidence Museum is in possession of a set of Cretaceous footprints discovered by amateur archaeologist Alvis Delk of Stephenville, Texas. This fossil of dense Glen Rose limestone consists of Dinosaur footprint (Acrocanthosaurus) and an eleven-inch human footprint intruded by the dinosaur print.

The Fossilized Human Finger, discovered in the 1970’s in Cretaceous layers near the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas. The fossil was sectioned and spiral cat-scanned. Scientific analysis shows replaced bone, tissue, and ligaments. It has been identified as the fourth finger on a girl’s left hand.

While all of these findings are very interesting and may be artifacts from the flood they do not hold up to the scientific standards to prove without a doubt they are from the flood. For this reason they are not used as evidence by most Creation organizations.

7b

List two human fossils used as evidence of the flood by some creationists that should not be used and explain why.

Ghost tracks footprints found in White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Most likely created after the flood as they most likely would not have survived.

The “Meister Print,” found in Utah within a block of shale. It was first publicized in the CRS Quarterly as the footprint containing a trilobite fossil. Once again it can not be confirmed if it was made before or after the flood.

Galley Hill, England Keith, Arthur. The Antiquity of Man. 1915. In 1888, workmen removed deposits at Galley Hill, near London, England, and exposed fully-modern human remains above a bed of chalk. The overlying layers were about 10 or 11 feet thick. Here was discovered a human skeleton firmly embedded in these deposits about 8 feet below the surface. A qualified observer determined this locale was not a burial site. May be true evidence but was found so long ago we do not have the documentation for the proof we need today.

Shoes in Stone Cremo, Michael A.; Thompson, Richard L. Forbidden Archaeology 2011. p. 807-8 “Mystery of the Petrified ‘Shoe Sole’ 5,000,000 Years Old,” by Dr. W. H. Ballou. Dr. Ballou wrote: “Some time ago, while prospecting for fossils in Nevada, John T. Reid, a distinguished mining engineer and geologist, stopped suddenly and looked down in utter bewilderment and amazement at a rock near his feet. For there, a part of the rock itself, was what seemed to be a human footprint! Closer inspection showed that it was not a mark of a naked foot, but was, apparently, a shoe sole which had been turned into stone." The Triassic rock bearing the fossil shoe sole is now recognized as being more than 200 million years old. Mr. Reid took the specimen to the American Museum of Natural History where the expert staff seemed amazed, a report was written but when inquired of later it could not be found. The sole imprint was so clear a wear spot was visible at the heel pressure point. The artifact has been left a mystery to secular scientists, but not to those who hold the Bible as authoritative. Once again how can we be sure this was from before the flood, there were many soft mud layers that turned to stone after the flood. We cannot prove when this was made.

8

Research and list four out-of-place artifacts used by creationists and explain why you believe they strengthen or weaken proof of a worldwide flood as described by the Bible.

A remarkable iron pot was allegedly found inside a large piece of coal in Oklahoma back in 1912, and is now being kept at the Creation Evidence Museum at Glen Rose, Texas.

In 1991, the appearance of extremely tiny, coil-shaped artifacts found near the banks of Russia’s Kozhim, Narada, and Balbanyu rivers brought about a debate that has continued to this day. These mysterious and minuscule structures suggest that there may have been a culture capable of developing nanotechnology 300,000 years ago.

These manufactured coils were initially discovered during geological research associated with the extraction of gold in the Ural mountains. These pieces include coils, spirals, shafts, and other unidentified components.

The Coso Artifact, a porcelain-and-metal object in a hexagonal casing with a spring at one end. Witnesses have said that this object resembles a modern spark plug. This was found in rock that, according to uniformitarian models, should have taken 500,000 years to form.

The Wonderstone Spheroids, now numbering 200 or more, found in a silver mine in South Africa. They are of a nickel-steel alloy that cannot have occurred outside a laboratory or a steel mill. Nor could they be meteoric; the composition does not match that of any meteorite thus far found. A museum curator has observed one of these spheroids rotating within its setting, apparently under its own power. Yet the miners who excavated these spheroids found them in a stratum that, according to uniformitarianism, ought to be 3 billion years old.

Nampa figurine: Was a clay fired doll found in Nampa, Idaho during a well drilling. Early dating attempts believed the artifact to be 2 million years old due to the rock layer it was found in.

This may be true evidence of pre-Flood man and may be enjoyable study but we must remember that when we use such things with secular science, the evidence is not there to back them up because most were either found long ago or the new finds were not properly documented or studied. When we are trying to witness to the secular world we need to stand on the evidence that we are able to prove without a shadow of a doubt.

9

What is the symbol of God's promise to never destroy the world by a flood again? How is it created in nature?

A Rainbow. It is created by the splitting up of light through drops of water in rain. You can use a prism to demonstrate this.

10

Why is Mount Saint Helens eruption so important for our understanding of the process of Noah’s flood?

There have been many geological processes that have taken place since its eruption. We have seen large canyons form overnight, forests of logs begin the process of creating a new petrified forest. We have also seen rapid burial from pyroclastic flows. We are still finding new evidence that helps us make the case for the fossils and geology we find were created by a flood and did not take millions of years.

11

Research flood legends from other cultures and explain how they support a worldwide flood.

12

Do one of the following:

12a

Visit the “Ark Encounter” or some other Creation Ministry that has a display of the flood. Give a visual, cinematic, oral or written report to your Director, Club or church on what you learned from your visit.

12b

Visit a geological feature believed to be caused by Noah’s flood or a major flood (such as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Niagara Falls, Canadian Shield or Mount Saint Helens). Give a visual, cinematic, oral or written report to your Director, Club, or church on what you learned from your visit.

12c

Research a geological feature caused by the flood and give an oral or written report to your Director, Club, or church on why it is proof of the worldwide flood as described in the Bible.

12d

Create a diorama or model showing a geological formation caused by the flood and explain how it was created and why the Genesis flood is a better example of its creation than a non-creationist model.

13

Do two of the following on your own or as a club:

13a

Obtain a large clear container, such as a 2–5-gallon water bottle or large pickle jar. Fill up a third or half of it with sediments, varying from silt to sand, also with small rocks, up to 1 inch (2.5 cm). Fill the rest of the way with water. Place the lid on the container and shake or roll it so the sediments will be mixed well. Then, stand it upright and let it sit until it all falls to the bottom of the container. Examine the layers created by the different size sediments and discuss how the layers we find in the earth relate to the layers in the container, and how this can happen on a large scale.

13b

Get a large wading pool and make a model landscape out of coarse sand, fine sand, clay, large and small pebbles and topsoil. If you cannot find some of these materials, use what is available. Set a mister or sprinkler over the pool to simulate rain. Notice how when the rain falls on the higher points, it carries off the material and the different materials move at different rates. When the pool is covered in water over the sediment, turn off the water and drain the pool by siphoning the water out, being careful to only disturb as small of an area as needed to remove the water and let it sit overnight. Now, gently try to dig an area to the bottom of the pool in a couple of places and notice how the different types of sediments are mixed or layered.

13c

Make a model of Noah’s Ark and make sure to use the ratios given in the Bible. Make sure to add weight near the bottom to simulate the animals, cargo and ballast. Next, launch the model in a lake, pool or other body of water and describe to your director how well it handles the waves.

300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits tall. For instance, you could make a model 30 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 3 inches tall. You can use wood or even Styrofoam

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