I think you could say that about the proponents of Plate Tectonics...we have had that discussion before, the youngest crust of the planet is at the deepest part of the ocean, the oldest is at the margins of the continents. Plate tectonics would have the continents slipping about like eggs in a skillet, with sometimes landmasses sliding beneath each other - yet there's no evidence subduction exists.
I think these early english naturalists were observing and writing before the first impact craters had been found or identified. It was either Noah's Flood or they just refused to believe their eyes. And the Bible was full of miracles, not phenomenon observed and described by witnesses. Example, in the time of Peleg when the fountains of the deep were revealed and the earth was divided; if the believers had really believed, they would have understood this statement to be the description of a catastrophic event...but the man in the pulpit reading to the congregation of the Wrath of the Lord wasn't a scientist.
I'm sure you would find Worlds In Collision of interest. I highly recommend it, the work is utterly faithful to the accounts in the Old Testament.
Well, then we would have to assume the recording of these "miracles" were flights of fancy? Made from whole cloth? Nobody saw nothin'? The catastrophic EVENTS described from Genesis through The Revelation may have been or will be attributed to God but were they and are they not still EVENTS? Regardless of attribution? The list of "miracles" is VERY long. Consider just the plagues in Exodus for starters. Very nasty EVENTS described whether one believes God was the source or not.
And thanks for the heads up but I have already followed your recommendation from a year or two ago. I've read WIC twice and will probably go for a third reading.