Orson Whitney teaches the earth was baptized by the Flood.
Orson F. Whitney, Conference Report (April 1908): 91
To Noah, also, came a dispensation of the Gospel. In his day the earth was baptized with water, prefiguring the baptism of fire, which our planet is destined to undergo, prior to its glorification. "For as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man."