Bill Barrick on Noah’s Flood

Here’s a free PDF of the following article (posted with the publisher’s permission):

William D. Barrick. “Noah’s Flood and Its Geological Implications.” Pages 251–81 in Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth. Edited by Terry Mortenson and Thane H. Ury. Green Forest, AR: Master, 2008.

A lot of this discussion is above my pay grade (esp. re geology), but it’s disappointing when non-young-earth-creationists marginalize exegesis like this.

Outline:

1. The A Priori Status of the Biblical Record of the Flood

2. The Biblical Chronology of the Flood Narrative [Literary Issues]

3. Translation with Chronological Notations

Introduction to the Flood Narrative Proper (7:6–10)

I. First Section of the Flood Narrative (7:11-18)

II. Second Section of the Flood Narrative (7:19–8:4)

III. Third Section of the Flood Narrative (8:5–12)

Conclusion to the Flood Narrative Proper (8:13–14)

4. Two-Fold Purpose of the Flood

5. Prevailing Phase

6. Subsiding Phase: A Key Interpretative Issue Involving Mechanism [three observations]

7. Summary of Chronology

8. Geological Inferences [Global Tectonics]

9. Continental Erosion and Deposition

10. Paleontological Considerations [Sea Level Curve]

11. Conclusion