I have some questions about the "Local Flood" of Noah

[John_Harshman]

@deuteroKJ

I referenced the Haarsma and Haarsma book above. AiG has tried to distance themselves from this dichotomy being a creationist invention. And, at times, the distinction has been assumed by those responding to YEC (this article makes the point you did).

That article makes the point, with an actual reference to the originator, that a creationist did indeed invent the historical/operational distinction.

The first recent major use of this concept by a scholar, in Mystery of Life’s Origin (1984) by Charles Thaxton, compared operations science (plural) with origins science, which is one type of historical science, or perhaps is a narrow way to view historical science.