Question about Noah's Ark?

Question

So, where did all the water come from? (yes I know it was rain but anyone who has been to school knows the process)
Afterwards, where did the water go to? There is only a fixed amount of water on earth.

Answer 1

The dinosaurs drank it.

Then they exploded, leaving only their bones.

Obviously.

Answer 2

It rained for thirty days and nights. After that God merely waited for the sewers to back up. No? Okay, then how 'bout this...
There is a theory being bandied about that, what is now the Mediterranean Sea is where the flood water water ended up. The theory being that the Straights of Gibraltar were at one time a solid wall that held the Atlantic Ocean out of the area that is now a sea. A cataclysmic upheaval caused the wall to break and allowed the Atlantic to rush into the area creating a sea. This would also explain the flood stories common to many of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean.

Answer 3

The water came from underground springs as well as from rain. Bear in mind that the earth was far different back then than it is now. I suspect that much of the ocean we have today is probably a remnant from Noah's flood. Do a google search on "underwater cities" and you'll see what I'm talking about. Now how'd those cities get so far underneath the ocean... HMMMM???

Genesis 7:11-12 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Answer 4

The story is fiction. There is a web site (I will not give you the URL, as it is too silly to contemplate) which supposes that the water was initially underground. It does not offer any explanation as to where the water went, and neither has anyone else. Scientific evidence from a dozen different and completely independent sources shows conclusively that no such event ever occurred.
Postscript: I need to offer a few facts apparently not known to some of the responders here. If every bit of the moisture in the atmosphere were to condense out as rain, the sea level would rise less than a foot. If every bit of the ice caps melted, the sea level would rise only a few hundred feet. The amount of water required to submerge the entire planet is about a billion cubic miles -- four times as much water as exists on the entire earth.

Answer 5

We get large puddles after just a few hours of hard rain. It rained for a matter of days in hurricane Katrina and look at what happened. The story of Noah shows it rained (I suppose hard and continually) for forty days and forty nights. Plus it says that the fountains of the deep were opened up (water springing up from the seas too?) That's a LOT of water. Water soaks into the ground, flows into streams, rivers, into the seas and ocean...nothing new about that. When you add everything up, Noah remained in the ark OVER a year AFTER the flood. Did the water have time to recede, evaporate, etc. in that amount of time? Sure....

Answer 6

Rain had nothing to do with the flood.
Their is a term that sounds something like this: "Latent heat of condensation". In English that means the heat produced during rain. If the flood was the result of rain then all the fish would boil and so would every one in the ark, aka their would be no point of the ark.
Take a look at this sight they have some nice things on it.
I just do no remember what part of the sight talks about it.

Answer 7

I saw something on TV that suggested it was a cataclysm (most likely a huge Earthquake) which
caused the area (now known as the Straits of Gibraltar) to flood.
The area was originally dry land, but now it connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
I'm still not sure about the Ark, though...

Answer 8

Even as a Christian, this, as well as the tale of the Tower of Babel and the story of Jonah, seem like completely fictional tales intended to display a poignant message (or possibly several messages). This is not to say that it is 100% certain that they did not happen, but it seems highly unlikely, and I don't think that takes away from the Bible one bit. For example, I'll show how the first part of Jonah is actually a form of Jewish poetry:

1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:
2‘Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.’
3And Jonah riseth to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and goeth down to Joppa, and findeth a ship going to Tarshish, and he giveth its fare, and goeth down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.

In the beginning of the passage, Jehovah is coming to Jonah; at the end, Jonah is leaving.
Next, he tells Jonah to rise and go to Nineveh; preceding the end, he is going down (as opposed to rising) into Tarshish.
Next, Jonah rises; preceding the previous point, he is going down into Joppa.
At the very center of it all is the fact that he is fleeing from the face of Jehovah.

The whole story of Jonah is meant to illustrate the principle of what happens when you knowingly flee from God.

Does this mean that it didn't happen? No, but the presence of poetic devices to this great an extent lends itself to the belief that the author wasn't attempting to describe an actual event. Once you have established that, it's much easier to see how other stories in the Bible could be the same way. The stories about Noah's ark display very fable-esque characteristics, such as where we get rainbows from and why there is rain, in addition to the idea of God is a just God and that we should not sin, because it leads to death. The symbolism is the same in both stories, too; because of their sin, the people are swallowed by water.

Answer 9

Rain for forty days straight. That was the first time it ever rained on earth. That is why everyone was making fun of Noah when he built the ark because they had never seen rain. The ground used to be watered by the firmaments underneath the ground.
The water took 1 year to go down enough so they could come out of the ark.
Have you heard of glaciers and icebergs? Remember that is the threat of so called "global warming"
"It's gonna melt them all and then the water will swallow up the earth and land" screams Al Gore

Answer 10

Some older translations also say that water came up from the ground. Leading many to belive water came from springs and underground rivers. Also that they returned there. It is possible that most of the water went to the polar ice caps. Because of the lack of people on earth, the earth could have just melted the icecaps really quick, and made it seem like all the world was covered. Everyone would have drowned because the known world would have been underwater.

Answer 11

I'm not a Christian but that story appears in a lot of mythologies. I say the water didn't flood the entire earth, it was from the melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age and it flooded a lot of the land around the settlements making it seem like it flooded the Earth.