All this week we’ve seen how genetics confirms the Bible’s history. Humans haven’t been around for hundreds of thousands of years. We’re all descended from Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago. But what about the animals?

Scientists have measured the mutation rate for several different species. And they found there aren’t enough mutations to account for even tens of thousands of years of history. Mutations don’t support evolutionary ideas about the past.

But this rate is what’s predicted based on the history in God’s Word! Creationists can make accurate predictions, well, because we start with the right history in Genesis.

All humans can be traced back to three major genetic groups. These groups are Noah’s daughters-in-law. Now, all of us are ultimately descended from one woman—Eve. Ten generations later, only four women survived the global flood, and since then, there have been about four hundred generations.

Now, if this Genesis is true, we’d expect to find few genetic differences between Noah’s daughters-in-law. Since there weren’t many generations before the flood, there wouldn’t have been time for mutations to stack up. And well, studies show those three women had only a few genetic differences. The evidence, well, it confirms God’s Word.

This week we’ve learned there are not enough mutations in our mitochondrial DNA to support a long history for mankind. Now, this DNA is the genetic information passed along by mothers. So I got mine from my mum, and my kids got theirs from my wife.

Now, even evolutionists recognize you can trace anyone on earth’s mitochondrial DNA back to one of three major genetic groupings. So three women are behind all of the diversity we see today. Who were the three great-great-grandmothers of us all? The Bible gives us the answer!

Noah’s three daughters-in-law! We’re all related through Noah’s family, just as the Bible says.

The rate at which mistakes pile up in the DNA we inherit from our mothers contradicts evolutionary ideas. If humans really have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, we’d expect to see hundreds of mutations. But we don’t see that!

This is a big problem for evolution! Mutations are supposedly the driving force of evolution. And yet evolutionists can’t explain the low numbers of mutations. The driving force for evolution doesn’t match evolutionary predictions!

What it does do is support a biblical timescale. God created humans just a few thousand years ago, so there hasn’t been time for mutations to pile up.

Evolutionists believe modern humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. If that’s true, there should be hundreds of genetic mistakes in the DNA we receive from our mothers.

You see, every six generations, a mutation occurs in that DNA. If there’ve been thousands of generations, there should be huge genetic differences.

But the most differences scientists have found between two people is only 123. This completely contradicts the evolutionary timeline.

But this is the exact maximum number we’d expect in a biblical timeline of just a few hundred generations! The evidence confirms God’s Word.

You know, many skeptics claim that millions of species could never fit on the ark. Well, they’re right—but Noah didn’t have to cram millions of species onto the ark.

You see, God told Noah to take two of every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal. In our modern classification system, “kind” is roughly equivalent to “family.” So Noah didn’t need two tigers, two lions, and two leopards. He only needed two of the cat kind. Noah also didn’t need to take sea creatures on the ark!

So how many animals did Noah need? Probably less than seven thousand. There was plenty of room on the ark for these animals, supplies, and for Noah’s family too.

Many skeptics claim there’s no way there’s enough water to cover the whole earth for a global flood. But the pre-flood world didn’t have the same mountains. Our mountains are full of fossils, which means they were formed during the flood.

And the Bible says much of the water came from inside the earth. And there’s actually evidence there’s still more water under the earth than on it!

Most geologists believe there was a global flood on Mars, and yet, there’s no liquid water there today! And yet, they reject the idea of a global flood on a planet covered with 70% water. The problem isn’t the evidence, it’s they’re rejecting the truth of God’s Word in Genesis.

The ark was a massive wooden vessel. Would such a ship float? Well, with the right design the ark would have no problems floating for just five months.

Ancient cultures used to build huge wooden ships that successfully floated. Actually, as recently as the early twentieth century there was a wooden schooner, The Wyoming, in use. Now, skeptics often bring up The Wyoming to say the ark could never have floated because this wooden ship twisted in the water and sank.

What they don’t tell you is that this ship transported coal for fourteen years before it sank!

History shows us properly designed wooden ships certainly float.

Our full-size Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter in Northern Kentucky depicts the ark as a massive wooden ship. Many people wonder why we didn’t build the ark in a box shape.

Well, the Bible doesn’t give us very many details about the ark. It gives the dimensions and a few other small features. Now, these don’t imply it was a box. After all, we can use dimensions to describe a car but that doesn’t mean it’s box-shaped.

We designed our Ark as a ship because that shape and features like keels provide the maximum in comfort and stability.

Since the Bible doesn’t tell us, we can’t be dogmatic about the ark’s shape.

Where does the idea that the global flood of Noah’s day was just a local flood come from? Definitely not from the Bible! It’s a forced interpretation in an attempt to fit millions of years into the Bible.

But a local flood has many biblical problems. How were all the mountains covered with water? Why build an ark? The animals, birds, and even Noah and his family could’ve just moved out of the area. How could every land-dwelling thing be destroyed? And God said he’d never send another flood like it, but there’ve been hundreds of local floods since then.

The idea of a local flood? It simply does not match with the Bible’s history.