[SirLinksalot]

That religious belief was abandoned by early creationist geologists--who were trying to prove the global flood--about 1830.

Name names please.

[Coyoteman]

That religious belief was abandoned by early creationist geologists--who were trying to prove the global flood--about 1830.

Name names please.

Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University, and President of the Geological Society of London.

An article describing the capitulation of the last major holdout for the global flood in geology (made during a speech on February 18, 1831) appears here.