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{{cquote|'''Genesis 6:13'''<br />...The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.}}

{{cquote|'''Genesis 6:13'''<br />...The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.}}

[[Image:Schönfeld The Flood.jpg|thumb|320px|The Flood by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld.]]

[[Image:Schönfeld The Flood.jpg|thumb|320px|The Flood by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld.]]

The '''Great Flood''' refers to the most catastrophic [[geology|geological]] event that has ever taken place in human history.  

According to bible mythology, The '''Great Flood''' refers to the "most catastrophic [[geology|geological]] event that has ever taken place in human history. " 

It was a unique, historical, and global catastrophe that lasted for about one year.<ref>Mortenson, Terry (July 2, 2018). [https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/global/biblical-necessity-global-flood/ Noah’s Flood: a Unique, Historical, Yearlong, Global Catastrophe]. ''Answers in Genesis''. Retrieved July 4, 2018.</ref> Virtually nothing historical, from writings to civilization to long-living organisms like trees, has survived from before about 3000 or 3300 B.C., when the Great Flood occurred.<ref>''See, e.g.'', http://www.ohtm.org/strut99.pdf</ref>  Today 43–60% of Americans accept as truth the [[Bible|Biblical]] account of the Great Flood,<ref>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040216-113955-2061r.htm</ref><ref>https://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx</ref> and many cultures record a world-destroying flood in their oral or written histories.

According to mythology, It was a "unique, historical, and global catastrophe that lasted for about one year."<ref>Mortenson, Terry (July 2, 2018). [https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/global/biblical-necessity-global-flood/ Noah’s Flood: a Unique, Historical, Yearlong, Global Catastrophe]. ''Answers in Genesis''. Retrieved July 4, 2018.</ref> The myth goes further, to allege that "Virtually nothing historical, from writings to civilization to long-living organisms like trees, has survived from before about 3000 or 3300 B.C., when the Great Flood occurred".<ref>''See, e.g.'', http://www.ohtm.org/strut99.pdf</ref>  Today, uneducated Americans accept as truth the [[Bible|Biblical]] account of the Great Flood,<ref>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040216-113955-2061r.htm</ref><ref>https://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx</ref> and many cultures have similar myths of a world-destroying flood in their oral or written histories.

The ''Iceman'', an experienced hiker, was frozen by a massive surprise ice storm in the Italian Alps 5,300 years ago—when the Great Flood likely occurred.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/iceman-last-meal.html</ref>

The ''Iceman'', an experienced hiker, was frozen by a massive surprise ice storm in the Italian Alps 5,300 years ago, which has nothing to do with flood mythology.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/iceman-last-meal.html</ref>

"Among geologists, the concept of a catastrophic flood came to be universally accepted by the late 1950s," after a discovery in the American Northwest of "giant ripple marks, 50 feet high and 200–500 feet apart."<ref>[http://www.iafi.org/floods.html The Ice Age Flood Institute reports on the massive floods in the Northwest.]</ref>  This evidence of a massive flood in the Northwest suggests that the Great Flood was not merely a local flood in the Middle East.  All cultures, not merely [[Christian]] ones, have an account of a great flood.  [[Jesus]] specifically mentioned the Great Flood.<ref>[[Matthew 20-28 (Translated)#24:37|Matthew 24:37-39]].</ref>

"Among some geologists, the concept of a catastrophic flood came to be universally accepted by the late 1950s," after a discovery in the American Northwest of "giant ripple marks, 50 feet high and 200–500 feet apart."<ref>[http://www.iafi.org/floods.html The Ice Age Flood Institute reports on the massive floods in the Northwest.]</ref>  This alleged evidence of a massive flood in the Northwest, while not evidence, is used to support the false belief that the Great Flood was not merely a local flood in the Middle East.  All cultures, not merely [[Christian]] ones, have myths of a great flood.  [[Jesus]] specifically mentioned the Great Flood.<ref>[[Matthew 20-28 (Translated)#24:37|Matthew 24:37-39]].</ref>

The [[rainbow]] is attributed by the [[Bible]] as confirmation of [[God]]'s promise never to impose another Great Flood.<ref>[[Genesis]] 9:13-17</ref>

The [[rainbow]] is light refracting through a prism.<ref>[[Genesis]] 9:13-17</ref>

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