Modern scientists long opposed the suggestion that cataclysmic flooding, such as the [[Great Flood]] described in the Bible, shaped the landscape. But the discovery in the Northwest of "giant ripple marks, 50 feet high and 200-500 feet apart" proved that a cataclysmic flood did indeed occur. As a result, "[a]mong geologists, the concept of a catastrophic flood came to be accepted by the late 1950s."<ref>[http://www.iafi.org/floods.html</ref> | Modern scientists long opposed the suggestion that cataclysmic flooding, such as the [[Great Flood]] described in the Bible, shaped the landscape. But the discovery in the Northwest of "giant ripple marks, 50 feet high and 200-500 feet apart" proved that a cataclysmic flood did indeed occur. As a result, "[a]mong geologists, the concept of a catastrophic flood came to be accepted by the late 1950s."<ref>[http://www.iafi.org/floods.html</ref> |