Considered the handbook of creationism, "The Genesis Flood" is in its 44th printing, having sold 250,000 copies in English.
I read some of Henry Morris' books, in particular, The Genesis Flood.
After spending over two decades teaching in various institutions he published The Genesis Flood in 1961.
Catastrophism and any kind of Genesis Flood depend upon supernatural intervention, and cannot be explained by natural law.
The Genesis Flood was considered as a basis for explaining geological data and an old-earth cosmology was not an inevitable conclusion among the educated.
Morris had published several books previously, but none had the impact that The Genesis Flood did.
Whitcomb completed his dissertation on 'The Genesis Flood' in 1957.
Outside conservative religious circles, The Genesis Flood created "hardly a ripple of recognition."
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.