Creationist vs Egyptologist? Good way to phrase it. I remember that from when I was living in England, where basically regular people thought that the first "pyramidiot" as they put it was Napoleon (English people hate Napoleon). Napoleon was a contemporary and an inspiration for people like Clausewitz, Marx, and even the English Darwin. Seriously, before Nietzsche and his "master morality", which is related to masters and slaves in Genesis and Exodus (are you a Hebrew or an Egyptian), the primary leader in all the modernist atheisms is Napoleon Bonaparte. Funnily enough, ancient pagans were seldom atheists, usually they were very closed in nationalist people who thought there was more than one national god. As for the pyramids surviving the flood, that's really doubtful. The whole world covered with enough water to cover the highest mountain for forty days and forty nights? That should have rooted out even the pyramids, which are low lying compared to Everest, the Himalayas or the Andes, and in a low lying plain at that.