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The Genesis Flood " became a best-seller in the Fundamentalist world and polarized Evangelical opinion.

" In 25 years, The Genesis Flood went through 29 printings and sold more than 200, 000 copies.

An old-earth creationist book, written specifically to challenge young-earth geological theories, called the late twentieth-century revival of interest in flood geology " astonishing and perplexing ," especially " in the face of increasing geologic and astronomical evidence for the vast antiquity of the Earth and the universe.

" Again, in the words of a critic, Arthur McCalla, the growth in young-earth creationism occurred not only because modern fundamantalists were more ignorant than in previous generations, but also because young-earth creationism " better defended a plain-sense reading of the inerrant Bible than did the old-Earth creationism of Ramm and the earlier Fundamentalists .... Legions of Bible believers responded gratefully to Whitcomb and Morris because their system eliminated once and for all the need for interpretative contortions that twist and bend the words of the Bible in order to reconcile them with the findings of modern science.