Global Flood or Ancient Myth? What the Evidence Really Shows
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Is the story of Noah's flood just another ancient myth, borrowed from earlier pagan texts, or a record of a real historical catastrophe? In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity podcast, J. Warner Wallace applies his investigative experience as a cold-case homicide detective to examine the Genesis flood account. He compares it with stories like Atrahasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh, traces worldwide flood traditions, and asks whether all these ancient memories point back to a single, real event. Along the way, he explores questions about miracles, philosophical naturalism, geology, the scope of the flood (global or regional), the ark's feasibility, and the moral difference between the biblical God and the capricious gods of other ancient cultures.
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| 0:00.9 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran cold case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview. |
| 0:08.5 | Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author. |
| 0:13.6 | This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity. |
| 0:19.0 | Thanks for joining us at the Cold Case Christianity podcast. I'm |
| 0:21.8 | Jay Warner Wallace. Okay, today we're going to be talking a little bit about, a lot about for an hour. |
| 0:26.5 | We're going to be talking about the flood, Noah's, the story of Noah in the Old Testament. |
| 0:32.5 | And we're going to be covering a few issues related to that. And part of it is because I get so darn |
| 0:37.2 | many emails. And all of our is because I get so darn many emails. |
| 0:38.8 | And all of our, I had one presentation years ago |
| 0:41.8 | that I did at a church. |
| 0:42.9 | And you know when you present to a church, |
| 0:44.3 | you have a very finite kind of time allowing, |
| 0:49.1 | allowance rather, and kind of a tight structure. |
| 0:52.3 | You're coming in behind a worship team. |
| 0:53.9 | You're going to be given a short amount of time. And then you're, you know, whatever the requirements, people are going to have a view on the stage. And you're going to be doing this over and over again for several services. And that video has been so popular on our website that I often think, wow, I've had known, surprised, actually, that people are still this interested in the flood story. |
| 1:13.1 | But I think a lot of it is because it is, in some ways, |
| 1:17.9 | easy to attack from a skepticism perspective, |
| 1:21.7 | both in terms of the scope, |
| 1:24.2 | can you really get every animal on an arc, |
| 1:26.9 | the idea that there are other ancient stories related to floods, Can you really get every animal on an ark? |
| 1:31.0 | The idea that there are other ancient stories related to floods. |
| 1:36.5 | And the fact that it is so utterly supernatural in its claims. |
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