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navigation, search Thomas Cole - The Subsiding of the Waters of
the Deluge - 1829, oil on canvas  Flood geology (also creation
geology or diluvial geology) is the concept that geology
describes features of the Earth which have been shaped by the
global flood described in Genesis 6-8. In the early 19th
century, diluvial geologists hypothesized that specific surface
features were evidence of a worldwide flood which had followed
earlier geological eras; after further investigation they agreed
that these features resulted from local floods or glaciers. In
the 20th century, young Earth creationists revived flood geology
as an overarching concept in their opposition to evolution,
assuming a recent six-day Creation and cataclysmic geological
changes during the Biblical Deluge, and incorporating
creationist explanations of the sequence of rock strata.  In
early stages of development of the science of geology, fossils
were interpreted as evidence of past fl