Christian creationists also use sciences, like geology to 'support' the mass flood and then there is that little thing called the good book ie the Bible which has over and over and over again shown to be an accurate history book. this is not ignorance, ignorance is when u ignore that there is truth out there and u dont seek it not for whatever reason [i dont know, like workin for the devil or stupidity or brain chemestry off or mental incapacity] Therefore taking like instances and 'cherry picking' is science not ignorance. when u investigate something u dont investigate everything else first to disquallify it all. u find similarities and then investigate. this has been called brilliance for thousands of years.

sunami, indonesia, mayby the term city is too broad perhaps 'peoples' or coastal populations' might be more appropriate or even the loss of massive amounts of information. this seems closer to the point, and then there is the alexandrian library which was thought to be destroyed by fire. now there seems to be a lot of recent underwater archeological findings in the area of alexandria that could account for the disappearance of the library.