Flood geology is a pseudoscientific attempt to interpret and reconcile geological features of the Earth in accordance with a literal belief in the Genesis flood narrative, the flood myth in the Hebrew
Thomas Cole – The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge – 1829, oil on canvas
Animals boarding Noah's ark, 1846 painting by Edward Hicks.
The Ark Encounter, Kentucky, a representation of Noah's ark, operated by Answers in Genesis, a young Earth creationist organization.
In the 18th century, finds such as Hutton's Unconformity showing layers tilted, eroded, and overlaid, demonstrated the "abyss of time" in the geologic time scale.
Young Earth creationism is a form of creationism. Its central belief is that the Earth and the biosphere were created by various supernatural acts of the Abrahamic God between about 10,000 and 6,000 y
Flood geology
…earlier geological eras; after further investigation they agreed that these features resulted from local floods or from 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…
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, Natoire, 1740