From Creationism and Baraminology Research News, a report on this paper about why Scriptural Geology (aka flood geology--understanding the rock strata as products of a global flood) was quashed as movement during the 19th century.

GRISDA has a paper by Warren Johns explaining why he thinks that scriptural geology failed in the 1800s. It has some good ideas. Here are his suggestions:

• Restricting flood layers to higher and higher portions of the geologic record


• Lack of human fossils in geologic strata


• The shift away from the hard facts of geology by the scriptural geologists


• The major journals and educational institutions were hostile to traditional religious beliefs


• The professionalization of geology made it difficult for part-time geologists (such as the scriptural geologists) to have a voice


• Liberal theology was replacing orthodox theology as the dominant view