The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications [Paperback]

John C. Whitcomb Jr. (Author), Henry M. Morris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1979

518 pages - Published 1961 - Multiple printings - The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 518 pages
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group (June 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801095018
• ISBN-13: 978-0801095016
• Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #550,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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75 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Started the Modern Scientific Creationist Movement, December 3, 1999

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John Woodmorappe (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications (Paperback)

A classic! Friends and foes of Biblical truth both agree that this seminal book was largely responsible for triggering the modern revival of interest in creationism.

Even though most of its scientific content has been superceded by more recent creation science, it still provides a useful framework for understanding Flood Geology. The theological portion of this book is invaluable for showing the incorrectness of compromising evangelicals who try to twist Scripture to make it fit a local flood instead of the indisputably global Noachian Deluge. A must read!

52 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truism: the more apoplectically-negative reviews, the better the book., August 23, 2005

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Hypoxy (Bath, ME United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications (Paperback)

God bless this wonderful book and its authors forever. It was instrumental in turning me at age 46 into a Bible-believer, and generated in me an abiding fascination with the "science fiction" of macroevolution and its essential prop, uniformitarian geology.

My first copy was the second edition, and its preface, relating some of the more notable responses to the first edition, is one of the funniest things I've ever read. My favorite anecdote is about the author of a highly critical review whose triumphant crowning argument against the Genesis account went like this:

(1) the Bible says the waters rose above the highest mountain,
(2) the highest mountain is Everest at ~29000 feet,
(3) at that altitude the oxygen is so thin that Noah & family could hardly have moved about, much less cared for thousands of animals!

His zinger was received with glee in ET circles and widely recounted by science teachers to their classes until someone--probably an alert 4th grader--said, "Uhhh, wait a minute....altitude...is calculated from, umm..."

I too would love to see the book updated to reflect later research; partly because I'd like to have the authors' analyses of recent findings, but mostly because I'm utterly confident that true science will always & only confirm the book's thesis.

An absolute must-read even unrevised. Lots of techical data I had to spend some time on, but the book never forgets that its target audience is the intelligent layman. And it obviously has connected with enough of that vast audience to start a revolt that's about to blow the roof off the illusory edifice of scientific naturalism.

61 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive, March 16, 2003

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"striped_knees" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications (Paperback)

Had you asked me a year ago, I would have said that the Biblical story of Noah could not possibly be taken literally. Now I have been forced to reconsider my position.

The authors did what I have never seen or heard before: used the scientific evidence rather than ignoring it. One question I would like to pose for the casual reader: how is it possible we have massive fossil deposits of extinct animals (dinosaurs, et cetera) from millions of years ago, yet no fossil deposits of modern animals? That is a question that made me wonder why I hadn't heard it before.

Despite the statements of some reviewers, who based on their reviews didn't seem to have read the book in depth, the authors do use scientific evidence to back up their position. It isn't the usual assertion that we must believe the Bible because the Bible says so.

I would recommend this book to everyone; and I plan to present these arguments to geologists and challenge them to refute them.

Of course, you should read this for yourself before you decide.