Genesis Flood (Paperback)

~ John C. Whitcomb (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 518 pages
• Publisher: P & R Publishing (June 1, 1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875523382
• ISBN-13: 978-0875523385
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #162,542 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars techical but excellant, September 25, 2000

By	Neil Phelan, Jr. P.D. (Malvern, AR United States) - See all my reviews

This is a wonderful book full of information that supports the biblical account of creation. To me, it was a little technical and tedious which made the reading less enjoyable. That is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 5. For a person who likes that sort of reading I would give it a 5 star rating. For this reason I would not recomment this particular book for teenagers or children. There are others that these men have written that are more to the point,less techinal and easier to read. This book contains volumes of factual scientific information that has been handled honestly. To the true searcher of facts I would highly recomment this book.

58 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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Even though most of its scientific content has been superceded by more recent creation science, it still provides a useful framework for understanding Flood Geology.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!

35 of 47 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

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

God bless this wonderful book and its authors forever. It turned 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.