Abstract
One of the basic tenets of the young-earth creationists (specified in the Creation Research Society's statement of beliefs) is that the Noachian Deluge was world-wide. Almost all young-earth creationists believe that nearly the entire geological record was produced by this Deluge, Morton being one exception. Scripture makes no mention of God creating water specifically for use in a Flood; either the Biblical account cannot be taken literally or else the young earth creationists are duty-bound to find some reservoir in which forty days and nights of rain water were stored prior to the Flood. In order to explain the forty days and nights of rain, some kind of water canopy seems necessary.