"Figure 4. Cliff face showing sediment deposited by eruptions of Mount St Helens, including an 8 m (25 ft) deposit of layered sediment."
Is it possible to believe in a recent worldwide flood AND be an old earth creationist?
"Figure 4. Cliff face showing sediment deposited by eruptions of Mount St Helens, including an 8 m (25 ft) deposit of layered sediment."
Is it possible to believe in a recent worldwide flood AND be an old earth creationist?
Interesting question. I’m sure I could justify it to myself somehow!? But at first glance - it might be difficult with the idea that the first time it ever rained was with the flood. Although there obviously were lakes and rivers before the flood - so the evidence of ancient water-erosion and deposits would have been able to get the water from that.
Not sure how lakes and rivers worked without rainfall though. Springs??
In eastern Washington state and along the Columbia river there is the “scablands” - landforms caused by the collapse of an ice dam for ancient Lake Missoula from the last ice age. There are ridges a mile long and hundreds of feet tall which are basically ripple marks left over from the flood!