THE GREAT FLOOD IN EASTERN WASHINGTON

 

I've never been interested in geology but today as I was reading, "The Stars Shine Bright (A Raleigh Harmon Novel)," by Sibella Giorello, I was struck by the fact she mentions in the book that scientists awarded the Penrose Medal to J. Harlen Bretz for his work proving that there was a great flood in eastern Washington of biblical proportions.  Here is the link to an encyclopedia write up. 

Genesis 7:4  "For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”