If water covered the entire surface of the Earth in the days Noah's , where did all that water go?

Question

I'm very skiptical about the whole Noahs flood story.

Answer 1

It went to the current oceans...
the oceans are deeper and mountains higher now...

if the earth was perfectly spherical there is enough water to cover the earth for 2 miles... so... the contenants sank... same say runaway subduction of the tectonic plates... basically... the continents sank for a year...

Answer 2

Ge 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
Ge 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Ge 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Ge 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Ge 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Ge 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Ge 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Look at the results of the Flood today!Grand Canyon,Niagra Falls and the Mamooth Cave. Just a few for example.

Answer 3

Genesis 8:1-14
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Answer 4

Hmmm, nice honest thought. Ask God, He loves truth.
Perhaps a large part of it went underground, into all the aquifers/groundwater. Some may have ended up in rivers, lakes & oceans, glaciers, polar ice, mountain-tops, snow, water vapor, clouds & rain, etc. Since people, animals, birds, etc. have a high water content, some is accounted for that way; AND, we do have quite a population boom on planet earth. --- Hey, some of it is in you!
Since water is made up of hydrogen & oxygen, the real question is more like where is all of that hydrogen & oxygen, right?? Wow, now we get to science, and I don't know the necessary data on that aspect of the dilemma. That really spills into a whole new arena, since those two elements don't always stay together. Sometimes, water comes dripping out of other chemical reactions; so, it can be formed. Therefore, it seems that it could be separated, too. Where can those two elements separate to? ... I don't really know my science all that well.

Answer 5

Noah's ark story is really the ice age. The north pole was temperate at one time. So the climate shifted the cold weather south and the warm weather went to the poles. Many animal species were found in the north pole with temperate grasses in their stomaches only part digested. I believe they were elephant species. They met a quick, violent death. This is because they didn't have time to even digest their food. I don't know the exact amount of elephants that were found but the number was quite high. Climate shifts have happened all the time throughout the history of the earth.

Answer 6

Probably right back up into the air where it came from. That much water covering the earths surface, would have insulated the earths surface causing the earths surface to heat up, thus causing the water to evaporate over time. Or God may have intensified the heat from the sun to speed up the evaporation process. Perhaps Both. Only God knows for sure.

Answer 7

Have you ever heard of tides? In the northern latitudes the tides can be over 60 feet high.. Were you aware of that? Have you ever heard of interplanetary bodies that have come close to or even struck the earth? What would the tides do if a moon sized rock can withing 100 or 200 miles from the earth? Do you think the tides would be high.. They would be, they would be real high!! I have been thinking about how this would have happened and this is a reasonable idea. God invented natural processes. Why wouldn't He use them? Jim

Answer 8

I think some evaporated back into the atmosphere, and/or soaked into the ground, and/or the pressure from all the water caused the earth shift under it so that land started to re-emerge. Actually the oceans make up 71% of the earth so a lot of it is still accounted for.

Answer 9

The story is, of course, fiction. An easy calculation shows that the amount of water required to completely cover the earth is roughly a billion cubic miles -- four times as much water as exists on the planet. There are at least six different evidences (any one of which is sufficient) to show that the tale is false.

Answer 10

The story of Noah is a Myth in the Bible to teach us that sin can destroy the earth and that God's forgiveness is there for those who choose to honor God.