Genesis 7:7-9

"And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah."

We find full agreement with Unger that the animals "were taken in by God... by implanted instinct."[7] Noah did not have to round up the animals and corral them and drive them into the ark; they "went in unto Noah."

"Because of the waters of the flood ..." This does not mean that they waited until it started raining, and then went in, but their knowledge, through faith, of what was to occur was the cause of their entry. This is clear enough from the statement in the very next verse. The supernatural nature of this whole narrative should not be overlooked. This is not the record, merely, of God's warning of a great natural disaster, which Noah heeded, but it is an account of divine punishment sent upon mankind for willful wickedness, a punishment nevertheless tempered with mercy in that God did preserve the seed, both of men and of the lower creations, for a new beginning.

The source of this record should not be sought in some local flood, as some have attempted. Evidence of great floods have been pointed out as occurring in the lower Mesopotamian valley,[8] but none of those findings are of sufficient dimensions to warrant mistaking them for what is in evidence here. Furthermore, the geological evidences of great floods here and there in the earth have in all likelihood, themselves been disturbed, rearranged, and scrambled by the countless geological disturbances that succeeded them. The theory that the present status of the continents would necessarily preserve any readable record of the events in this chapter is unfounded. The local flood idea cannot be harmonized with the epic dimensions so dramatically displayed here. Here is the record of a cosmological disturbance unlike any ever occurring on earth, either before or since.