How did flood geology conflict with modern science?

Flood geology attempts to reconcile Earth's features with a literal reading of the Genesis flood narrative. Early 19th-century diluvial geologists initially hypothesized that specific surface features proved a worldwide flood, but further investigation led them to conclude these resulted from local floods or glaciers instead. Modern scientific analysis has overwhelmingly refuted the key tenets of flood geology across multiple scientific disciplines.

What we know

• Flood geology is a pseudoscientific attempt to interpret geological features according to a literal belief in the Genesis flood narrative. [1, 2]
• In the early 19th century, diluvial geologists hypothesized that surface features showed evidence of a worldwide flood, but later agreed these resulted from local floods or glaciers. [2]
• Proponents of flood geology use internal biblical chronology to place Noah's Ark and the Genesis flood within the last 5,000 years. [2]
• Scientific analysis has refuted the key tenets of flood geology, contradicting consensus in geology, stratigraphy, geophysics, physics, paleontology, biology, anthropology, and archaeology. [2]

Where to go next

• the bigger pictureWhat is the history of modern geology?
• how it workedHow do scientists determine the absolute ages of rocks?
• how we knowWhat evidence supports plate tectonics?
• what followedHow did the publication of The Genesis Flood impact creationism?
• compared withHow does tectonophysics explain Earth's crustal movements?
• an unexpected connectionHow are Seventh-day Adventists connected to modern creationism?Creationist flood geology was mainly supported by a minority within the Seventh-day Adventist Church before being popularized by the 1961 book The Genesis Flood.

Sources

• [1]flood geology (Wikidata Q2732015) · CC0 1.0
• [2]Flood geology · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [3]Geology · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [4]Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954) · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [5]Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (after 1952) · CC BY-SA 4.0