Below is the online edition of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood,
by Dr. Walt Brown. Copyright © Center for Scientific Creation. All rights reserved.
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First the flood. Two independent methods—one scientific and the other biblical—will be used to calculate the date the flood began. Over the last 2,000 years, dozens of conflicting biblical chronologies have been proposed. Bible scholars and archaeologists frequently debate those differences. Although all biblical chronologies are reasonably close to the scientific conclusion, which will now be explained, only five biblical proposals lie within the narrow statistical range of the scientifically derived date.