They have to believe forces like erosion and tectonic mountains happen quickly to pack Earth’s history into 7,000 years. Not joking. At all.
What’s really funny is that no one believed the Earth was that young until recently. It’s like The Rapture™ and cherubic angels, totally made up, non-Biblical, hasn’t been around for even 200 years. We’re talking about people who get Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno mixed into their “ancient” belief structures.
At the peak of the flood, approximately 33,000,000 cubic feet per second (930,000 m3/s) poured over the Snake River Plain at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and deposited hundreds of square miles of sediments eroded from upstream.[8]
Although the peak of the flood lasted a few weeks at most, erosion at Red Rock Pass continued for a few years before water ceased to spill over.
So much erosion for
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40 days…
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Why do people believe these stories?
Indoctrination from as early as they could think.
They have to believe forces like erosion and tectonic mountains happen quickly to pack Earth’s history into 7,000 years. Not joking. At all.
What’s really funny is that no one believed the Earth was that young until recently. It’s like The Rapture™ and cherubic angels, totally made up, non-Biblical, hasn’t been around for even 200 years. We’re talking about people who get Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno mixed into their “ancient” belief structures.
Was Milton the one who made the shitty movie adaptation, the shitty tv show remake, or the shitty tv show?
Aw, I kind of liked the 90s one…
I liked all of them! But I’m also currently watching the 2016 Suicide Squad on purpose. It’s nice to enjoy something terrible where no one gets hurt.
Wait, you’re intentionally and deliberately turning that on?
…you do you man.
To be fair, there is real geology behind the idea that erosion can happen fast in catastrophic food events.
From Wikipedia on the Bonneville Flood: