with any degree of assurance those things that may have taken place in the earth before the Flood. The evolutionary interpretation of the fossil record would have to be abandoned, with the sedimentary rocks and their fossiliferous contents reinterpreted in terms of the great hydraulic cataclysm. And if the fossils do not give evidence of evolution, there remains no evidence that life has evolved at all. Consequently and of necessity, those who are committed to belief in evolution must maintain that