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The world before the flood : The physical world before the flood -- The duration of the first world and its population -- The civilization of the antediluvian world -- The biblical account of the flood : Warning of the coming flood -- Some problems concerning the ark and its cargo -- Was the ark discovered? -- The beginning and the duration of the flood -- Further problems connected with the flood -- Extra-biblical evidence for the flood : Flood traditions among the nations of the world -- The Babylonian flood account -- Other historical evidence for the flood -- Geological evidence for a universal flood -- Glacial and fossil lakes, coal beds, and oil deposits -- Fossils in every part of the world evidence for a universal flood -- The mammoth and the flood -- The world after the flood : Harmonizing Genesis and geology; the geological timetable -- Other difficulties involving Genesis and geology -- The glacial theory and the flood -- The flood the most reasonable solution for the glacial theory phenomena -- The flood a prototype of the final judgment.