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Horsefeathers! By 1830 the protogeologists in England and France had given up on a young earth, a lifetime before radioactivity was even discovered. And several of them, like William Buckland, were lifelong Christians and defenders of the faith.

The Granite Wash in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle puts the lie to this. A huge extent of igneous rock - granite included - that washed out of the ancient Wichita Mountains and are now buried under two miles of ocean-laid sediments. Like limestones and shales and stuff.

How did the Fludde pick up the Horseshoe Reef - 200 meters thick, 30 by 200+ km in extent, and set it down in West Texas? How did it pick up the Coconino Sandstone and drop it in the Grand Canyon with its dunes still at 30-degree angles of repose? Was Fludde water more viscous, for better carrying, and also less viscous, than today's water?