When did the God make the hydrologic cycle?

Question

We all know that the water cycle did not exist for a while, because there was no rain. Then the flood came. Is this when the hyrdologic cycle got started?

If so, what happened when all that floodwater evaporated? Didn't it have to come back down, and therefore cause another flood? Noah couldn't exactly hit ctrl + alt + del to end this process, now could he?

Answer 1

read the bible , science is sin :-)

Answer 2

You assume that the flood water would evaporate at the same time. Here's what would happen, assuming that the story of a great flood is somewhat accurate:

Lots of water would be needed to create a flood, so it would come from the clouds, thus decreasing the amount of clouds in the sky to absorb heat. Then, the water near the surface of the flood would warm up. As a result, the top couple of feet of water would evaporate. Once those layers turned to gas, the heat could reach the next few feet of water, causing more to exaporate. However, because water has a high specific heat (amount of heat needed to cause a temperature change), and the heat from the Sun would not penetrate to the bottom of the flood-waters, the evaporation would occur gradually.

Eventually, the amount of water in liquid form would return to pre-flood conditions. I say this based on "Le Chatlier's Principle," which states that if a system is changed, the system will try to undo that change. In other words, the water molecules would evaporate and condense at such a rate that clouds would be formed quicker than they could turn into rain.

Besides, from a theological perspective, following the flood, God promised never again to create a massive flood.



Another key idea you forgot about was the simple concept that the hydrologic cycle existed before the flood started, so the hydrologic cycle did not begin with Noah.



Really short answer: No, assuming the veracity of the flood and Noah's ark, the hydrologic cycle would have begun before the flood, and the flood would not occur repeatedly.

Answer 3

Where did the waters go?
The whole earth was covered with the floodwaters (see Chapter 10, Was the Flood global?), and the world that then existed was destroyed by the very waters out of which the land had originally emerged at God’s command (Gen. 1:9, 2 Pet. 3:5–6). But where did those waters go after the Flood?

There are a number of Scripture passages that identify the floodwaters with the present-day seas (Amos 9:6 and Job 38:8–11, note ‘waves’). If the waters are still here, why are the highest mountains not still covered with water, as they were in Noah’s day? Psalm 104 suggests an answer. After the waters covered the mountains (verse 6), God rebuked them and they fled (verse 7); the mountains rose, the valleys sank down (verse 8) and God set a boundary so that they will never again cover the earth (verse 9).18 They are the same waters!

Isaiah gives this same statement that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth (Isaiah 54:9). Clearly, what the Bible is telling us is that God altered the earth’s topography. New continental land-masses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from below the globe-encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre-Flood topography, while large deep ocean basins were formed to receive and accommodate the Flood waters that then drained off the emerging continents.


Without mountains or seabasins, water would cover the whole earth to a depth of 2.7 km, or 1.7 miles (not to scale).19

That is why the oceans are so deep, and why there are folded mountain ranges. Indeed, if the entire earth’s surface were leveled by smoothing out the topography of not only the land surface but also the rock surface on the ocean floor, the waters of the ocean would cover the earth’s surface to a depth of 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles).19 We need to remember that about 70% of the earth’s surface is still covered by water. Quite clearly, then, the waters of Noah’s Flood are in today’s ocean basins.

Answer 4

First, is not the idea of the whole earth’s being flooded too farfetched? Not really. Indeed, to some extent the earth is still flooded. Seventy percent of it is covered by water and only 30 percent is dry land. Moreover, 75 percent of the earth’s fresh water is locked up in glaciers and polar ice caps. If all this ice were to melt, the sea level would rise much higher. Cities like New York and Tokyo would disappear.

Further, The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “The average depth of all the seas has been estimated at 3,790 metres (12,430 feet), a figure considerably larger than that of the average elevation of the land above the sea level, which is 840 metres (2,760 feet). If the average depth is multiplied by its respective surface area, the volume of the World Ocean is 11 times the volume of the land above sea level.”14 So, if everything were leveled out—if the mountains were flattened and the deep sea basins filled in—the sea would cover the whole earth to a depth of thousands of meters.

For the Flood to have happened, the pre-Flood sea basins would have to have been shallower, and the mountains lower than they are now. Is this possible? Well, one textbook says: “Where the mountains of the world now tower to dizzy heights, oceans and plains once, millions of years ago, stretched out in flat monotony. . . . The movements of the continental plates cause the land both to rear up to heights where only the hardiest of animals and plants can survive and, at the other extreme, to plunge and lie in hidden splendor deep beneath the surface of the sea.”15 Since the mountains and sea basins rise and fall, it is apparent that at one time the mountains were not as high as they are now and the great sea basins were not as deep.

What happened to the floodwaters after the Flood? They must have drained into the sea basins. How? Scientists believe that the continents rest on huge plates. Movement of these plates can cause changes in the level of the earth’s surface. In some places today, there are great underwater abysses more than six miles [more than 10 km] deep at the plate boundaries.16 It is quite likely that—perhaps triggered by the Flood itself—the plates moved, the sea bottom sank, and the great trenches opened, allowing the water to drain off the land.

Answer 5

Some people believe (and I think it makes sense) that before the flood, there was a water canopy over the earth. (In Genesis 1, God separates the water above from the water below and calls the expanse "sky".) It did not rain, and there were no clouds. People also lived longer, because the water canopy protected certain things from getting into the atmosphere. After the flood, some of the water stayed as oceans. Some of it became clouds, and some became ice in the arctic and antarctic. There is also humidity in the air. And water can be in chemical reactions to make other things. God could also have taken away water. But there wasn't another flood of that magnitude, and there never will be. God sent the rainbow when he promised that the flood with Noah would be the last major flood (over the whole planet).

Answer 6

What happened to the Flood waters?

A clue to the answer may be found in Psalm 104:7-9, a passage that describes the earth’s creation. The Genesis Flood is also in view in this reference, since it mentions the rainbow promise of no more worldwide floods:

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

The Flood waters are said to have flowed over the mountains and down to the valleys. Today, the greatest valleys on the entire earth are the submerged ocean basins, some as deep as seven miles beneath the sea surface. And great mountains exist on the ocean floor, the peaks of the highest ones forming islands. As the Flood concluded great tectonic activity evidently pushed the continental land upward and the ocean basins downward. Of course, every physical change on earth occurs by the hand of the Lord, using either natural or supernatural means. The conclusion is that the Genesis Flood waters are still present on the earth, as close as the nearest shoreline. Great heights such as Mount Everest were formed after the Flood, having been pushed upward as the ocean valleys were lowered. Various sedimentary rocks, marine fossils, and shells are frequently found on today’s mountain tops. The highest peaks also appear to be relatively youthful and only recently eroded. Thus most are post-Flood formations. Of course, some mountains also existed prior to the Flood, according to Genesis 7:20, although their heights are unknown. Perhaps these mountains were located in a lowland area so that their actual height about sea level was not great. Either the waters rose high enough to cover these pre-Flood hills and mountains, or they may have been worn downward by the Flood waters. Whichever the case, the testimony from Scripture and from the earth declares a worldwide flood of judgment in the days of Noah.

Answer 7

god does not understand this word: hydrologic.

Job 38:22
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail?

Genesis 1: 6-7
And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven.

Genesis 7:11-12
[O]n that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

http://geocities.com/paulntobin/astronomy.html#hydro

the bible = not scientifically sound.

Answer 8

The "great flood" as known to man, was the straight of Gibraltar collapsing and flooding the Mediterranean Valley, known to us now as The Mediterranean Sea

Answer 9

all the water that ever existed is still with us today, we drink the same water as the dinosaurs and the cavemen. It's a matter of distribution , sometimes its in the sky sometimes it all comes crashing down. The earth is a bit like a sponge at times depending on volcanic activity, it can hold oceans then it can spew it all out.

Answer 10

LMAO. good question... hmmm very good question. perhaps this "world wide flood" actually only covered part of the KNOWN world. after all i doubt noah circumnavigated the globe to end up near where he left.

did he go across the world say, oooo look america is underwater too. and so is australia, thats it i declare this world wide..

(last i checked they thought the world was flat....)

Answer 11

What do you say to someone who thinks it didn't rain before the flood???? Anybody home???