Flood geology
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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.
History of geology
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The history of geology is concerned with the development of the natural science of geology. Geology is the scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the Earth.
Illustration from a 1767 account by William Hamilton of a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A portrait of Whiston with a diagram demonstrating his theories of cometary catastrophism best described in A New Theory of the Earth
Scotsman James Hutton is considered to be the father of modern geology.
Bust of William Smith, in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History