Biblical History of Man: The Flood part 2

Do other cultures have flood stories?

Yes.  An emphatic yes.  I found one source online that listed 262 unique flood stories from cultures on all 6 continents.  One source I researched claimed to have recorded more than 500 flood stories from many different cultures.

Some samples:

Hawaiians have a flood story that tells of a time when, long after the death of the first man, the world became a wicked, terrible place.  Only one good man was left, and his name was Nu-u.  He made a great canoe with a house on it and filled it with animals.  In this story, the waters came up over all the earth and killed all the people.  Only Nu-u and his family were saved.

Another flood story is from China.  It records that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters escaped a great flood and were the only people alive on earth.  After the great flood, they repopulated the world.

Where does the flood fit on the so-called geologic time scale?

The entire geologic time scale that contains fossil remains is sedimentary rock.  Sedimentary rock is laid down primarily by water, although some is deposited directly in the air.

Therefore, it is in the fossil-bearing rock that we will find the flood deposits.  This begins with the Cambrian layer and the marine fossils. 

By definition, the Pleistocene is the time of the latest glaciation or ice age.  We will see later that the ice age begins immediately on the heels of the flood. 

Therefore the flood deposits will be those from the Cambrian period through the end of the Tertiary period.  See the chart at left .