Testing the Global Flood Hypothesis: A Multi-Domain Falsification of the Noah’s Ark Narrative Against Independent Physical Evidence

The claim that a literal flood covered the planet within the past five to six thousand years, survived by eight people and paired animals aboard a single vessel, is widely dismissed but rarely tested as a formal hypothesis. This paper states the hypothesis precisely and tests it against seven independent domains: hydrology, glaciology, dendrochronology, population genetics, biogeography, historical continuity, and naval architecture. It fails throughout. The paper identifies excavated Mesopotamian flood strata as the tradition’s probable kernel, amplified by the mechanism documented for the Sumerian Kings List.

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