From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:48:44 -0800, Paul S Person wrote:   
      
   > That only makes sense if a very literal interpretation is implied.   
      
   Nothing “implied” about it. Right up to about the 19th century,   
   Christian people commonly believed there had been a world-wide flood,   
   exactly as depicted in their Bible. The beginnings of geology started   
   with this assumption, that the landscape we see today is the leftover   
   relic of such a flood. Gradually, as more and more evidence was   
   uncovered that did not fit this assumption, only then did it begin to   
   fall apart.   
      
   > Only an idiot who though that floods didn't occur before, say, 1800   
   > AD (or whenever the earliest /recognized as historical/ flood   
   > occurred) would have a problem.   
      
   There was this common idea that the Earth was 6000 years old. Who knew   
   any better, at the time? It was only advances in science from about   
   the 19th century onwards that pointed towards a greater age; first   
   maybe a few million years, then maybe a few tens or hundreds of   
   millions of years, and finally the modern figure of billions of years.   
      
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