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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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, many conflicting views on biblical chronology have developed. Even today, archaeologists and Bible scholars debate those different positions within their respective camps. Although all biblical chronologies are reasonably close to the scientific conclusion, which will now be explained, only one biblical approach comes close to the scientifically derived date.