Where did all the water from the great flood go?

Question

Does God have a big straw or something?

Because the last time I checked, water never leaves the Earth unless of course it's on a spacecraft.

And it's not frozen because of a little thing
known as global warming

And if the ice caps did melt, you're talking about maybe a couple of feet. That's not really enough to drown everyone especially in Turkey where Noah was in the first place.

Answer 1

There is also these little things knowns as clouds always in the sky. There will never be a time when they are not there. However, if they all condensed and became rain, the earth would be flooded again. Not to mention the fact that global warming has only been going on over the past couple of thousand years. If all the ice caps melted, there is more than enough water to cover the earth.

Answer 2

First you have to know where the water came from. Some came from underground. Most, I believe came from a cosmic ice ball, or comet that came too close to the earth. When it got close enough, a phenomenon known as Roche's Limit caused it to fragment, raining super-cold ice (and water) on parts of the earth. This is the only mechanism that can explain the woolly mammoths that are found in the polar regions. No process on earth could quick freeze a living animal of that size with vegetation still in its mouth.

The gravity of this iceball caused a fracturing of the crust of the earty, which released the sub-terranian water. Eventually, these fractures resulted in the earth's crust folding which created much higher mountains (and a deeper ocean).

That is where the water went. As for polar ice. when it melts, the resulting water stays at the same level. The reason that ice floats is because of the air. This air is released when the ice melts, and the water takes the place of the displaced ice.

Incidentally, there is NO global warming. It is the lastest hoax being perpetrated on the American people. It is as real as Y2K.

Answer 3

fifimsp1 - Try reading the water cycle sometime. Rain is fresh, then rivers, lakes and into the oceans that are salt. The water in say Lake Michigan is drained an replenished over about 20 years or so I believe so if it had started out as salty it would long ago have been flushed clean. There are huge salt mines under Windsor in Canada I know so you might have some of that ancient sea on your table.

By the time the ice is done melting large parts of the world will be underwater and if the land was not pushed up to form continents the oceans could easily cover the whole earth.

Man at that time was mostly in the middle east and a flood of the "whole earth" could have easily been regional and wiped out all mankind.

Answer 4

I'm not personally a big believer in the great flood idea.

However, there is a great likelyhood that historically there may have been a catastrophic flood in the regions of the persian gulf and also in the mediteranean when a whole bunch of trapped water finally rushed in flooding the low lying areas for many miles.

Since you can't see more than like 25-30 miles on a clear day before you are seeing horizon, it would appear as if the entire world was flooded.

And then because it was a catastrophic one off event - it did take a while for the water to subside. But this was hardly covering all the mountains...

On the other hand, I'm not sure that any of that really takes away from the story. Effectivelly for poor, un-educated goatherders building boats - the whole world was flooded.

Answer 5

There were ice ages too, you know! There is also something called evaporation. I would be curious to know just how much of the earths water is floating around the planet as clouds on any given day? Or how many gallons get turned into snow that is still atop the mountains? Or get consumed by people and turned into urine? In underground caves & the water table? Or how many gallons are in the ice caps, or in Greenland? Did you see An Incontinent Truth? They talk a lot about water displacement.

Answer 6

good question, let's start with where did the water come from to flood the earth?. check out christiananswers,net for some possible answers. the most humans can do is study is scientifically. we prolly won't have a conclusive argument where the water went because we weren't there with pen, paper, and seismograph. that's why i don't get why people believe evolutionsists. many christians say the earth is only 6k years old. so noah's time was like 5,500 years ago. how long ago were the dinos? 365 million years and somehow we know the where, how, and when of them.

Answer 7

Ha, you might have something here. It is called THINKING.

1. There was no "GREAT FLOOD", little ones yes, and the grand canyon is not proof of a great flood. The river that made it is still right there.

2.God probably SUCKS, but not through a straw.

3. Intelligent design gave us cancer, AIDS, MS, Alzheimers... c'mon get real.

Thanks for helping dispel the myth that everybody is loony in the USA about God.

My Answer to email from someone saying that water doesn't flow uphill, how come the river is below the level of the rocks at the entrance to the canyon follows:

Thank you for asking a question, that is often the first step in learning how to think.

Of course water does not flow downhill,(typo, I meant UPHILL) however the central plateau of the United States, (like any area where subduction plate tectonics collide) is going UP. The rocky mountains, and the Colorado plateau grow higher by about ONE INCH each year right now as we type!

12 years is one foot of uplift!. The land that is now higher than where the river is, was once WAY lower. That is unless you also believe that the earth is only 6000 years old? Water wears away stone. New stone is constantly being made, through volcanic action, plate tectonic uplift, etc. Look at the Rocky Mountains where there are beds of Cretaceous limestone that used to be level, and are now at 45 degree angles to the horizontal. These cretaceous rocks are MILLIONS of years old, and they are UNDER some basaltic granite that is even older! Study geology, study science, don't be afraid to ask questions. Any time you want I will write to you.

Bob

Answer 8

First off..Sarcasm with the Lord as your Punch-Line, is very wrong.

The Northern and Southern regions of our planet, are Engulfed in Enormous Ice Blankets. In fact, the melting of them in recent years is causing some concern. Possibly another "Great Flood"..

Neither Religion nor Science hold all the answers to questions we can not comprehend the answers too. You need to make the coin toss and decide which to believe in..

Answer 9

Come on dude water is being evaporated every second that goes by. If you are trying to say the bible is wrong why not just use the walkin on water water into wine and noah collecting 2 of every species known to man bit cause it works realllll good.

Answer 10

The water shield around the earth up in the firmament, it had to fall, as it had never rained in the 1656 years to the flood. Who can survive 40 days and 40 nights rain any where?
This is how the life sustaining earth was lost and why there has got to be a new heavens and a new earth. 2Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5l Isa.65:17l 66:1,22;