If you believe this actually happened then where did all of the water go? Even if you melted all of the ice in the poles and completely desaturated the atmosphere there still wouldn't be enough water to flood the world as the Bible describes. So where did it go?
2007-01-29 06:51:05 · 13 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God sucked it up through a giant straw.
2007-01-29 06:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Gene Rocks! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since, as the Genesis account says, “all the tall mountains” were covered with water, where is all that water now? Evidently it is right here on the earth. It is believed that there was a time when the oceans were smaller and the continents were larger than they are now, as is evidenced by river channels extending far out under the oceans. It should also be noted that scientists have stated that mountains in the past were much lower than at present, and some mountains have even been pushed up from under the seas. As to the present situation, it is said that “there is ten times as much water by volume in the ocean as there is land above sea level. Dump all this land evenly into the sea, and water would cover the entire earth, one and one-half miles deep.” (National Geographic, January 1945, p. 105) So, after the floodwaters fell, but before the raising of mountains and the lowering of seabeds and before the buildup of polar ice caps, there was more than enough water to cover “all the tall mountains,” as the inspired record says.—Ge 7:19.
2007-01-29 06:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by Janos 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i'd like to see sources on this statement:
Even if you melted all of the ice in the poles and completely desaturated the atmosphere there still wouldn't be enough water to flood the world as the Bible describes
then i would like you to consider ground water.
there is clearly enough water to completely flood the Earth. People claim that the ice caps melting alone could flood it. also, one must take into account that there have been drastic techtonic changes to the world as well.
2007-01-29 06:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
If you read in Genesis it specifically let you know it took more than one day for the earth to dry up.
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 assuaged;
8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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.
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:
8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
2007-01-29 07:03:55 · answer #4 · answered by Child of God 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Two thirds of the worlds surface is covered by water, if the mountains were lower and the sea beds were shallower there is more than sufficient water to cover the globe.
At the end of the catastrophic flood period, it is more than likely that the topography of the Earth altered, with sea beds sinking and land uplifting. There is certainly evidence that mountains were once covered by sea, as marine fossils have been found at their summits.
2007-01-29 07:18:55 · answer #5 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Try the article at the link below if you are seriously looking for some type of answer. Otherwise, I am too lazy to cut & paste an answer to a question that has been asked a hundred times before:
2007-01-29 07:11:29 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no big problem for The Creator of The intire Univers.... there is more than enough water in the soar system to cover the intire earth... God just put it back when he was done with it.
2007-01-29 07:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
back into the rocks, I don't really know, but if you believe this you believe God can take care of the water
2007-01-29 06:54:44 · answer #8 · answered by chavito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was absorbed into the earth. Many Aquaducts developed. So there you are Mr. Pimple.
2007-01-29 06:56:32 · answer #9 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It was frozen and turned into the moon. =0)
2007-01-29 06:54:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋