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Still searching for the truth

The accuracies—and inaccuracies—of a recent National Geographic Channel “Search for Noah's Ark” special

October 24, 2006

What can science tell us about Noah's Ark and the Flood? Anything? A recent National Geographic Channel program aimed to find out:

A wicked world. An angry god. A righteous man named Noah who built an Ark, and survived a flood. But did it happen the way the Bible describes it? While some scientists are looking for answers, others search for confirmation on the biblical account. Will they find it? Or, was the story of Noah simply a story? Of God … and man … and a promise?

The story of a man, and a boat, and a flood first appears in the Middle East—the same part of the world that gave birth to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It's told in both the Bible and the Qur'an. The account of a catastrophic event that happened very early in human history, not too long after the creation. Many of us learned the story when we were kids, even if we didn't go to Sunday School. But how seriously should we take the story of Noah and his Ark? Did it happen the way the Bible tells us it did?

With that intriguing introductory narration, the program embarks on a review of major theories for what caused the Flood, whether the Flood was global or local (or entirely mythical), whether there is geological evidence for the Flood, whether Noah's Ark could have been built to survive the Flood, and so on. Interviewees range from Tom Vail, a creationist who heads up AiG Grand Canyon raft trips, to Alan Gishlick, a geologist for the staunchly anti-creationist National Center for Science Education.

One of the books referenced in “Search for Noah's Ark” is Grand Canyon: A Different View, compiled by Grand Canyon raft leader Tom Vail of Canyon Ministries.

The program makes its first mistake early on when the narrator explains that both the Bible and Qur'an contain “the account of a catastrophic even that happened very early in human history—not too long after the creation.” Actually, according to the chronology the Bible presents, the Flood happened over 1,500 years after the creation.

The viewer is then shown a scene less common now than it one day was: a Sunday School classroom full of children learning about Noah and the Ark. After the narrator comments that most of us learned the story as children, he asks, “But how seriously should we take the story of Noah and his Ark? Did it happen the way the Bible tells us it did?

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