Fred W. Crockett writes of a "great deluge" at the time of Noah.
Fred W. Crockett, "The Personality of God," Improvement Era 1, no. 2 (November 1898): 15
God created man in His own image. This must be counted as a collateral evidence that there is at least a striking similarity between God and man. When we behold man, we behold also the likeness of the Creator Himself. In the book of Genesis we are told that after the great deluge when man was destroyed for his disobedience, the earth resumed its natural beauty. The Prophet Noe by way of gratitude and appreciation for the great kindness and favor of which he had been the recipient, built an altar to the Lord and offered up burnt offerings demonstrative of his thankfulness. The Lord smelled the sweet savor that arose from the altar and said in His heart, I will no more smite everything living as I have done (Gen. 8:21).