Alleged Discrepancies and the Flood Name a Bible subject that
has been scoffed at or ridiculed more than the account of the
Noahic Flood. Name a topic that has borne the brunt of more
jokes, or that the unbeliever has used more often to poke fun at
the Bible, than Noah’s ark. Likely it would be difficult to find
any Bible subject that has received more derision in modern
times, or has been the subject of more mockery than the story
recorded in Genesis 6-9. The biblical account of the great Flood
is one of the more prominent stories in Scripture, with more
space allotted to it in the book of Genesis than to the creation
of “the heavens, and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them” (Exodus 20:11; Genesis 1-2). Four of the first nine
chapters of Genesis are devoted to the record of Noah, his
immediate family, and the Flood. We know more about the Flood
than any other event (recorded in Holy Writ) from approximately
the first 2,000 years of man’s existence on Earth. What’s more,
there are several New Testamen