THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The answer
Disagree. Geologists report no synchronous worldwide flood layer in the sediment record. What the record shows instead is local flood deposits of many different ages — including genuine, catastrophic river floods under the cities of Mesopotamia.
Why it’s interesting
What the ground shows and what the story means are two different questions — the first is geology’s to answer, and the second was never in the silt.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.