when, according to the bible, there was no rain before the flood?
How did animals survive with no rain to grow the vegitation that many of them, still do today, eat to survive?
2007-03-16 00:34:17 · 8 answers · asked by trevor22in 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am just going by what a lot of the other crazy christians have said here. Like, it did not rain on earth before the flood.
2007-03-16 00:39:55 · update #1
They ate Spanish Moss? God knows everything? Uh, Maybe God doesn't know that carbon based life forms need water to exist.
2007-03-16 01:00:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible says "in those days a mist rose from the ground watering the plants", and there were lakes and rivers before the flood.
Scientists who have modled the flood, suspect there was a heavy canopy of water vapor surrounding the Earth. Dr. Baumgartner, the father of plate techtonics, built into his computer model the idea of a violent release of water from below the ground which shattered the continents. This release was so violent it upset and collapsed the water canopy. This planetary covering would have looked similiar to Venus' covering today, and would have created similiar thermal effects. It also would have shielded Earth from much of the solar radiation which may account for the longer life spans recorded before the flood, and explains the higher oxygen content we see in old amber pockets.
Using the figures provided by Dr. Baumgartner, other scientists have calculated the force of this ejected water would have carried it into the stratoshpere, where it would have returned to the ground frozen after raising the albedo of the planet temporarily. This would have been the cause of what we now call the ice age.
This flood is calculated to have created a wall of water moving at hundred of miles per hour, scrubbing the surface of the planet of its surface soils (and everything else). As the waters reached equilibrium, the soils and dead bodies were sorted by the hydraulic sorting principle into the layers we see today around the world.
Today, Dr. Baugartner's views are not very popular, but his model of plate techtonics works and is being used by the US Government in a variety of ways after over 300 attempts by those accepting uniformitarion geology failed. These scientists accept all of the data we have on the history of the world, their only disagreement is the time scale. Everything we see in the fossil record can be created in 6,000 years given the catostrophic nature of the flood. If we accept the prevailing view of mythical millions of years, there are many holes and gaps which cannot be explained.
I guess Dr, Baumgartner is another Copernicus. He's got the math. It works. But the prevailing world view doesn't like it. Today, his plate techtonics is accepted, but only the parts that don't interfere with the prevailing religion - evolution. Perhaps we've learned nothing from Copernicus.
There's nothing crazy about this, it's just you've been denied access to the latest scientific research of the last 25 years.
2007-03-16 01:00:05 · answer #2 · answered by "Ski" 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't recall reading in the Bible that there was no rain before the flood. Can you tell me where it is written? Animals would have survived the same as humans have survived because God made seeds to continue the vegetation. Why would he have made seeds without providing for them to germinate and grow? From my own experience, I know that God is able to provide for all my needs.
2007-03-16 00:49:59 · answer #3 · answered by lightellen3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may or may not have rained before the Deluge. Perhaps it rained but nothing like what Noah was told would happen.
Having said that, the Genesis account reports that a mist would go up from the land and water the ground. Genesis 2:5-6.
Hannah J Paul
2007-03-16 00:45:37 · answer #4 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The grass in my yard has a tendency to grow even when we don't have rain for several weeks. When I go outside in the morning it's always wet. Seems like condensation happens when the air is full of moisture and the temperature drops. Same sort of idea that keeps plants moist in a terrarium. The moisture doesn't have to drop down for it to nourish the plants.
2007-03-16 00:57:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes,there WAS rain and wells to irrigate the feilds. Most times,you planted your crops near a river in the moist dirt to insure your crop was going to survive till harvest.Did I spell "feilds" correctly,lol?
2007-03-16 00:39:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Like everything else in biblical times things just mysteriously happened.
2007-03-16 00:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I dont remember that but God can do anything....He gave all the food in the beginning....no references given here...
2007-03-16 00:38:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋