What Doug believes about the flood story:

What Doug believes about the flood story: God told Noah to build a boat

What Doug believes about the flood story: God told Noah to build a boat God sent 2 of every animal he intended for repopulation

What Doug believes about the flood story: God told Noah to build a boat God sent 2 of every animal he intended for repopulation There was a cataclysmic flood around 4500 years ago

What Doug believes about the flood story: God told Noah to build a boat God sent 2 of every animal he intended for repopulation There was a cataclysmic flood around 4500 years ago Everyone not on the boat perished

What Doug believes about the flood story: God told Noah to build a boat God sent 2 of every animal he intended for repopulation There was a cataclysmic flood around 4500 years ago Everyone not on the boat perished God started over with Noah and his family

Genesis 6:17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die. Genesis 7:11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.

Psalm 104:6-9 You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains. 7 At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away. 8 Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed. 9 Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

Genesis 6:14 “Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.

Genesis 6:15-16 Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 16 Leave an 18-inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.

515 Feet

515 Feet

515 Feet

515 Feet

Genesis 6:19-20 Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. 20 Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

Genesis 8:4 exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Nicholas of Damascus (30 BC)

Nicholas of Damascus (30 BC) Flavius Josephus (1st Century)

Nicholas of Damascus (30 BC) Flavius Josephus (1st Century) Julius Africanus (3rd Century)

Hereford Mappa Mundi

Hereford Mappa Mundi

Ahora Gorge

Ahora Gorge

Ararat Anomaly

Ararat Anomaly

Ararat Anomaly

Mount Suleiman

Mount Suleiman

NAMI Expedition

NAMI Expedition

The Island of Ruad

The Island of Ruad

Durupinar Site

Durupinar Site

Durupinar Site

2 Peter 2:5 “...Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment…”

Genesis 7:9-10 They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.

John 10:9 (NASB77) “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved…”

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.