[VadeRetro]

But there is a worldwide record of death buried in the earth's sediment; a record showing beasts of the sea in what are now deserts, showing former life in polar regions that are now uninhabitable. This would be expected if the biblical text is accurate.

The segregation of those sediments into fine layers would not. The apparent faunal succession in them would not. The exquisite preservation of tranquil surface features at various depths in one place would not. The preservation of glacial scraping and dry-land volcanic ash deposition would not. The list goes on and on.

When honest creationist geologists went looking for the Flood residues in the 1700s and 1800s, they couldn't find them. After a while, all the honest people stopped trying to force the result.

[Fester Chugabrew]

If one looks at the geologic record with the assumption that the same processes have carried on in the same way throughout all ages, then I suppose he can only come to the same conclusion as many have. I believe the earth's surface was significantly different prior to the worldwide deluge; that catastrophic activity occurred on many levels as a result of water being displaced on such a large scale; that this single event forever changed human history, including geography, in a dramatic way. It seems to me the biblical texts indicate the earth was covered with water first, and then the dry land appeared.