"Davis Young rightly recognizes that the church's response to extrabiblical evi-dence lies near the crux of twentieth-century conflicts between science and biblical interpretation, whether the topic is creation, evolution, or the flood. Historically comprehensive and geologically sound, this is a book that no evat gelical theologian, interpreter, expositor, or teacher of the Book of Genesis cart afford to ignore. A correct understanding of this issue is increasingly import for the evangelization of scientifically literate society."

-JOHN SUPPE Princeton Univer

"Although leading evangelical scholars discarded over a century and a half ago the notion of a geologically significant biblical flood, the Noachian deluge con-tinues to serve in fundamentalist circles as the centerpiece of 'scientific cre-ationism.' In this treasure trove of opinions about the flood, Davis Young takes readers on an intellectual tour from antiquity to the present, examining the changing ways in which Christian apologists have used and abused contempo-rary scientific knowledge."

-RONALD L. NUMBERS
University of Wisconsin-Madison