Much as I pointed out earlier, even if be would interpret Genesis 1:1 as agreeable to the idea of catastrophism it still follows that the time frame indicated is too short to be discernible by physical evidence we actually have. Also evidence for any such catastrophe would be obscured at a minimum by the flood, if not also the abrupt nature of the creation described.
And to those who might want to jump on the mention of the flood, there is actually a fair amount of evidence for some great upheaval on the Altiplano of South America, but I suppose if you want to assert that, for example, continental drift has been steady that it was some pre-modern-human race farming those fields now well above the permanent frost line....
but I suppose if you want to assert that, for example, continental drift has been steady that it was some pre-modern-human race farming those fields now well above the permanent frost line....”
Genesis 10:25Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
The Hebrew term for “earth” was used in the sense of land, or the physical earth or ground. It was not used in terms of ‘peoples” though there were the accounts of Babel and God confusing the languages; God may have acted to physically separate the continents within a short space to further separate the peoples as well as create more mass symmetries to stabilize the Earth’s spin on it’s axis!