Regarding Jan. 2 article regarding a local engineer's theory about a global flood.

As a geologist, I find the article written describing "proof" of Noah's flood to be very uninformative, nonscientifically based and rather misguided.

I have no problem with religion in this country and believe it is the cornerstone of freedoms which makes the U.S. so great, but to present these Mesozoic Era sediments as anything other than sand dunes is misinforming to say the least.

Comparing Missoula Ice Age floods to this supposed flooding event is completely unsubstantiated.

Geoscientists who have made it their life's work to study our local, rare and spectacular cataclysmic flood deposits and those who have studied these wonderful sand deposits mentioned in the article would quickly look at the claimed "locked waves and whirlwinds" within the clearly eolian (wind blown) sandstone and dismiss such claims.

Contradicting conclusions that "waves" were created in a "deep ocean," but it was a "cataclysmic flooding event" similar to our local Ice Age flood deposits is without merit.

To present your article and the findings as scientific evidence of a biblical event is very irresponsible and a slap in the face of the ridiculously overwhelming majority of geoscientists who would disagree.

Chris Lewallen, Kennewick

Editor's note: Read the article referenced in this letter online at tinyurl.com/TCH-Flood.