Evidence for a Biblical Flood

The liberal scholars debunk the idea of a great Flood, and call it a "myth." However, the Bible records a catastrophic Flood in Genesis 6-8. Furthermore, the Bible is not the only book that contains an account of a great Flood. Many civilizations, including Sumarian, Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh), Islamic, Chinese, Indochina, India, Australian aborigines, New Zealand Maori, Malaysian Temuans, Greeks, Germanic, Irish, Finnish, Aztec, Inca, Maya, Hopi, Caddo, Menominee, Mi'kmaq, and Polynesians also have similar accounts of a great flood brought on by a deity because of evil deeds of mankind.7 The Elba Tablets referred to above also show an account of a great flood.For a remarkable Chinese opinion concerning how their own ancient characters tell the story of a flood and an ark, and how these ancient Chinese characters can be traced back to 2500 BC, please see the 8th reference in the Endnotes.8

Below is a picture of the Flood Tablet, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is now located in the British Museum.9 This tablet is from the great library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal:

If indeed the Flood was mythical and never really happened, how then could the account of Flood be so disseminated throughout the earth among so many different ethnic groups, many of them who are, and have been, so isolated from each other? Only if it really happened, and all these people looked back on it as something in their own history, could the story have been sustained in some form for eons of time. Something big must have happened.

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Taken from: http://www.wayhome.org/FromAdamToTheFlood.html