Abstract
Many people have assumed that all the rocks at the surface of the earth were deposited during the flood associated with the name of Noah (Gen. 6-8). This position, if it were to be substantiated, would eliminate all of geological history. It would nullify all the observational procedures that thousands of experienced geologists have used over many years of field work to record and understand the stratigraphic sequence. It would also destroy the geological principle, "The present is the key to the past."