Can there really have been a global diluge??

Question

For a global diluge like the one depicted in the Bible there would have to be enough water to cover the entire planet and water is almost a constant in earth so in physical terms it would not have been possible, would that mean that the global diluge is just a mith?

Answer 1

Most support for a global flood comes from the addition of subterranean waters flowing up from under the earth's surface. This hypothesis is incorrect, though, because it is known that water that originates under the crust of the earth is simply water vapor dissolved in magma and rock. This means the process for expulsion of subterranean waters is forced to be a slow process, and not one that could be provoked to occur all at once, under any circumstance of the earth's behavior.

Other support concludes a layer of sedimentary rock found everywhere around the earth must support a global flood. This, if used as evidence, would disprove support saying that any shift in plate tectonics was a cause for two reasons:
1) A shift in tectonics would result in metaphoric rock layers, and not sedimentary ones.
2) After the shift, the levels of rock would be shifted and would cause the reading of rock layers to time global events to be unusable.

A global flood just doesn't work in the long run. Desperate attempts to explain the nonexistent phenomena can be all disproved by geology.

Answer 2

The Genesis 7:11 reference to the windows of heaven being opened has been interpreted as the collapse of such a water vapor canopy, which somehow became unstable and fell as rain. Volcanic eruptions associated with the breaking up of the fountains of the great deep could have thrown dust into the water vapor canopy, causing the water vapor to nucleate on the dust particles and make rain.

Dillow, Vardiman, and others have suggested that the vapor canopy caused a greenhouse effect before the Flood with a pleasant sub tropical-to-temperate climate all around the globe, even at the poles where today there is ice. This would have caused the growth of lush vegetation on the land all around the globe. The discovery of coal seams in Antarctica containing vegetation that is not now found growing at the poles, but which obviously grew under warmer conditions, was taken as support for these ideas.[10]




A vapor canopy would also affect the global wind systems. Also, the mountains were almost certainly not as high before the flood as they are today, as we shall see. In today's world, the major winds and high mountain ranges are a very important part of the water cycle that brings rain to the continents. Before the flood, however, these factors would have caused the weather systems to be different.

Answer 3

I'm not an expert on the Bible, but I do know something about science. If the Bible portrays a deluge so vast that it covers all the land, the writer is mistaken. Even if the polar ice caps were to melt, and all the glaciers in the world were to melt as well, the resultant rise in sea level--albeit dramatic--would still not be great enough to cover the entire planet. If the Bible is referencing a great flood that actually took place during the history of humans, it would have to be the great floods which occurred about 9000 years ago, as the Pleistocene glacial period came to an end.

Answer 4

No, there could not; your analysis is correct. The amount of water required to inundate the earth can easily be calculated; it is one billion cubic miles, more than four times as much water as exists on the entire planet. Furthermore, such an inundation would have left worldwide silt deposits; no such deposits exist. It would also have left the soil saturated with salt: nothing could grow. So, yes, the tale is (as is much else in the bible) a myth.

Answer 5

A good deal of the islands we have now are "new" in the sense that they were vomitted up by oceanic volcanoes -after- the time the biblical flood would have occurred. Considering the fact that there wasn't as much land and that water, in any form, is relatively easy to come by then yes, there could have a global flood.

Answer 6

Of course it's possible BUT ....

However, there is no scientific evidence that such a flood as in the bible ever occurred.

Any flood like that would have left definite evidence behind on a global scale and such evidence is simply missing.

Answer 7

yes...in fact, the story of the Noah is actually a Sumerian myth...that comes from the epic of Gilgamesh. It was recreated by the Hebrews to reflect their believes and voila!! That's how we have the story of Noah...

There is no archaeological proof that a deluge ever occurred in the world. If there was, there would be a religious person on TV everyday remind us of it. The only people who profess that there is archaeological proof are super-religious people and they only do it around laymen...never around archaeologist where they would be refuted.

Answer 8

"Myth" no, in fact if you dig deep enough, literally you find that all areas of the Earth were at one point underwater, and if it is a myth it's no more odd than the geologists belief that at one point the entire Earth was covered by a sheet of ice at least a kilometer thick, not just land entire planet, based on a layer of iridium that's been found.

Answer 9

you`re right, there isn`t enough water on earth. but large tracts of land known to Bible writers could`ve been flooded at some time.
reserve a seat in the ark now.

Answer 10

Not at all, The water is stored in the firmament which is way high in the air. We are endangering the Earth by exploring space because one of our rockets or shuttles could poke a hole in the firmament and drown us all. Don't y'all read your Bible?

How's that for a dumbass answer?