Flood Geology and Conventional Geology Face Off Over the Coconino Sandstone

Flood geologists have been using the Coconino Sandstone in the Grand Canyon to argue that a global flood reworked much of the planetary geologic record. Flood geologists’ arguments may seem convincing at first, but after analyzing their articles and videos as well as the conventional geology literature, it is found that the Coconino does not support a global flood. Flood geologists have been largely directing their efforts toward refuting generalized statements from critics in the popular science literature. By placing so much emphasis on finding data that could be used to refute critics, opportunities were missed to increase scientific understanding of the Coconino. Flood geologists’ findings were consistently framed to argue for aqueous deposition, which they implicitly equate to global flood deposition. It is shown that an astronomical difference exists between the two.