On Balancing Faith in Mormonism with Traditional Biblical Stories: The Noachian Flood Story

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often assume that their religion requires them to believe in Noah's flood as a worldwide occurrence. Many Latter-day Saints do, in fact, hold this view of a worldwide flood. But there is more room in this ark than one might expect. Here, White and Thomas assess the competing claims regarding the historical core of the biblical story of Noah's flood.