Astrid
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Me saying 'just to say' was a bit blase, I will admit, but before the mid 1700's, the prevailing theory at the time was that the geological layers of the Earth was formed through the Flood. John Woodward's 1695 An Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth, even had the idea that the Flood basically reduced the world to slurry, catching all the animals in it before hardening into the crusts and layers we see today (or at the time, rather). Though even he had to apply miracles to it to explain why lower layers of strata were not horrible crushed by the weight of the strata above.
At the risk of picky - technical, "just because" is not
at all a mstter of blase, but about complete
abandonment of scientific integrity.
Call it btw " prevailing belief orvassumption".
" Flood" never remotely achieved theoty status.
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