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The Evidence For a World Wide Flood As Told in the Bible with John Whitcomb

The Evidence For a World Wide Flood As Told in the Bible

Overview Quiz

1. Which psalm does Whitcomb call God's own commentary on the flood? *

A. Psalm 19

B. Psalm 104

C. Psalm 90

D. Psalm 33

2. According to Whitcomb's reading of Psalm 104, how did the floodwaters recede? *

A. They evaporated into the vapor canopy

B. They drained into underground caverns

C. The mountains rose and the basins sank

D. They were absorbed by the dry land

3. What is the "vapor canopy" that Whitcomb describes? *

A. A layer of water above the pre-flood atmosphere

B. A ring of ice around the early earth

C. A cloud that covered only Eden

D. A modern weather phenomenon

4. What does Whitcomb say the fossils atop the highest mountains show? *

A. That the mountains were always that high

B. That creatures were buried in water, then lifted up

C. That fossils can form on dry land

D. That evolution produced new kinds

5. How many times does Whitcomb say Genesis 1 states that creatures reproduce "after their kind"? *

A. Three times

B. Seven times

C. Ten times

D. Twelve times

6. What is Whitcomb's explanation for how the Grand Canyon formed? *

A. Slow erosion over hundreds of millions of years

B. A single river cutting through hard rock

C. Rapid floodwater deposits, then swift carving

D. A large meteor impact

7. Why does Whitcomb use the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens? *

A. As a small-scale model of catastrophic processes

B. As proof that volcanoes cause floods

C. As an example of slow, gradual change

D. As the actual cause of the Genesis flood

8. What point does Whitcomb make with the Titanic and the prairie buffalo? *

A. That fossils form slowly over long ages

B. That dead creatures normally leave no fossils

C. That the ocean floor is a vast graveyard

D. That scavengers create fossil layers

9. Which Old Testament book does Whitcomb quote to urge a fresh look at nature? *

A. Job

B. Isaiah

C. Genesis

D. Psalms

10. What does Whitcomb say the second law of thermodynamics shows about the world? *

A. That it is evolving upward

B. That it is running downhill

C. That it stays perfectly constant

D. That it is billions of years old

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