World Wide Flood?

Question

if the earth was at one point covered in water, how come some bodies of water are saltwater and others arent? and how come some fish are freshwater and others are saltwater, neither can live in the others habitat?

Answer 1

Because at the Tower of Babel God confused the Babel fish. Now no other fish can communicate between fresh and salt-water without first going through decompression due to fear of lysing.

Answer 2

Today we are several thousand years, by some Christians Counting, from The Flood.... not the same as then... some got salty and some stayed fresh.... anothe question where did all the extra water go?.... well.... God did it... there is losts of water in the solar system...God made, or brought in, all the water he needed to cover every thing... and he put back the extra when he was done with it... if he could do that then he could keep the fish safe for the time all the water was mixed up... He is God after all.

Answer 3

a lot of fish probably died, but remember, you only need two fish from each species to live in order to reproduce the species.

saltwater fish already had the majority of the water - obviously in the ocean - so when the supposed freshwater from the hydrosphere fell, it probably just deluded the water a little more. as for the salt infiltrating the freshwater regions, perhaps the freshwater fish that we see today survived by staying near freshwater springs (which would have been under water at that point) where there was not enough salt in the water to harm them. remember that the fish in the deepest parts of the ocean would probably not have been affected.

who knows how many species of fish went extinct? maybe the water reached the right delusion where salt and fresh water fish would be accommodated.

Answer 4

Simple science - when water evaporates it doesn't carry the salt and since the Earths surface has been through many changes it has redeposited as fresh water ( and the seas are only salty from runoff they didn't start that way )

you do know that there are desert regions around the world that are dried up sea's didn't you - like a large portion of the American Southwest ?

BUT THIS DOES NOT PROVE THE GREAT FLOOD - that would be under religion ( faith no science ! )

BUT IF YOU WANT BOTH ! there has been a theory floating around for years that the 'Great Flood" was a racial memory from when the ocean broke through the mountains ( Straits of Gibraltar ) and formed the Mediterranean sea ( we were around when this happened and it's in the same area as the formation of Christianity )

Answer 5

I have not heard about the earth being completely covered in water so I cannot answer that, but bodies of fresh water are formed from rain, which does not contain salt. Different animals thrive in fresh or salt water due to adaption and evolution.

Answer 6

Fresh water is less dense than salt water, so I suppose that it is possible for there to temporarily exist a layer of brackish (slightly salty) water over the salty ocean water beneath. This may have allowed fresh water fish to survive for the time that it took for the flood waters to recede.

If you honestly want a creationist's perspective on things, then try browsing through the article at trueorigins dot org :

Answer 7

My guess would be that most of it was fresh water to begin with (from the rain).

Some life probably already existed in salty water before the flood and was able to survive through it.

It's also possible that life gradually adapted to water that slowly became salty over time.

Those are just guesses obviously.

Answer 8

Because when the waters receded they backed off, but the holes left by the raise of mountains, hills and dells we call valleys where then filled with the fresh water rain, that made the difference. As for the fishes, they like everything else either learned to adjust and live in the environment that they were dealt or die off......

Answer 9

But Chiippy, God is magical!! All he had to do was magically control the water, telling the salt water to go only into oceans and bays, while freshwater stayed inland in lakes and rivers....


Or, there was never a global flood - but lets not take that away from the fundies, eh??

Answer 10

I know it is ad hominem but Jeebus Mary and Joseph!!! These creationists are making my brain hurt! What the heck kind of crazed science are you quoting? Saltwater came from the Utah Mountains? What about saltwater outside your little town? Did it float from Utah to the rest of the world?