[Fester Chugabrew]

Clearly I cannot present the physical world as it was prior to a global deluge. About the best I might be able to do is take certain catastrophic occurrences we have been able witness, and then consider what might happen if these were amplified in magnitude so as to effect the entire planet.

At bottom, I am working with a text that is outside of myself. I trust its veracity as it relates in general terms where I came from and where I am going.

Given a planet that clearly demonstrates geological processes of incredible magnitude, it simply does not smack of fairy tales and pink unicorns to speculate about conditions that precede my generation by several thousand years. A good many people alive today haven't the foggiest notion of history only 2,000 years ago, let alone 10,000 years ago. Science hasn't even got much of a handle on time and space.

But in simple terms, I consider the fossil record as fairly good evidence of a global deluge. I do not assume geologic processes have always taken place at the same rate in the same way throughout all time. Neither do most scientists.

[Junior]

About the best I might be able to do is take certain catastrophic occurrences we have been able witness, and then consider what might happen if these were amplified in magnitude so as to effect the entire planet.

Which is exactly what geologists did and what led them to realize there had never been a universal flood.