Simon - “I think there were occasional attempts at "proving bible science" but they were pretty occasional and usually rather laughable...”
Yeah, that hasn’t happened in a while.
Old Freddy Franz was clearly a fan George McReady Price’s “flood geology”, but like so much other Creationist-related stuff, it’s been too successfully refuted.
In fact, it almost seems like the more you go looking for hard evidence of Biblical literalism, the more you find evidence to the contrary (gosh, who’d have thought?).
The die-hards end up having to either accept it or - as peacefulpete said - subscribe to increasingly nutty and implausible conspiracy theories to justify dismissing it.