Athelutionist: If there was no global flood, how do you explain rainbows?

Answer 1

Could it be...Satan? The moisture in the sky bends the light at different angles according to its wavelength sorting it by color.

Answer 2

Rainbows are caused by the diffraction of different frequencies of light at different angles. The mathematical formula for the rainbow is almost as beautiful as the rainbow itself, in its own way.
If indeed there was a Great Flood (probably a cultural or racial memory of floods in coastal areas where humans tend to colonize), the rainbow could have been connected in the mind of primative humans with the hope that "we survived and it won't happen again". However, there's nothing in the event of a Great Flood to indicate that this would have been the first time a rainbow ever occurred, or that a rainbow couldn't have happened before.

Answer 3

You're not actually serious are you?

Ok... The rainbow's appearance is caused by dispersion of sunlight as it goes through raindrops. The light is first refracted as it enters the surface of the raindrop, reflected off the back of the drop, and again refracted as it leaves the drop.

The overall effect is that the incoming light is reflected back over a wide range of angles, with the most intense light at an angle of 40°–42°. The angle is independent of the size of the drop, but does depend on its refractive index.

Seawater has a higher refractive index than rain water, so the radius of a 'rain'bow in sea spray is smaller than a true rainbow. This is visible to the naked eye by a misalignment of these bows

Answer 4

Not being an "Athelutionist I still would like to comment.

There is an explanation for rainbows involving the drops of water refracting sunlight into its component colors. That seems to cover the situation without need to refer to a global flood. (Or you could view it as the rainbow being caused by these optical rules as a way of keeping a promise of no more floods.)

Answer 5

Light refraction. Rainbows have nothing to do with floods. Unless you were around the time of the great flood, you can't say that there weren't rainbows around before it.

Answer 6

How does a flood explain rainbows?
If there was no global flood, how do you explain inkjet printers? or mobile telephones or anything else.

Maybe it is only me this appears to be a Zen question. If it is the answer is probably somethink like seven but I have no idea why.

Answer 7

what! you can't be serious? rainbows come from the water crystals that are left in the air after it rains, the sun shins thru them and creates a rainbow in the distance! you can't possibly believe that God puts a rainbow there as a reminder not to flood the earth again!

Answer 8

HAhaha, Rainbows are just tricks of the light.all it is just light being reflected through water.
Good way to prove it is you get a hose and spray it out in the sun. the light will reflect through it and BAM got ya self a rainbow.

Answer 9

let's see... rainbows are explained by the global flood? you must be the same guy that claimed mount rushmore was proof that god really did exist.
what can i say? i bow to your superior wisdom.
(i have been recently told that sarcasm doesn't cary over the net, so in case you missed it, just for the record, that was a highly sarcastic reply)

Answer 10

You can have a rainbow with a light rain. That is a fact and I don't see the point nor the reason for anymore thought into this particular question.

Answer 11

Oh yeah? With all the hunger in the world, how do you explain CONCRETE?

Huh?

Huh?

C'mon!

You can't do it, can you.

Therefore there is no God (or at least no sense to your question).

In other words, I can create a rainbow with a garden hose. It's a simple problem of refraction and diffraction with an angle proportional to the wavelength (or wavenumber, I can't remember)

Simple, idjit.