Could there have been enough water???

Question

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OK according to Noah it rains for 40 days and 40 nights and covers the entire earth in water. Forget that there's no way for Noah to tell if the WHOLE earth is flooded, or fit 1 million species of animal / insect onto his boat...

Where did all the water go? There would be nowhere for the water to recede to, and there aren't enough clouds to hold the TRILLIONS of gallons of water that are missing.

Answer 1

I have calculated the missing mass of water at more than 1/10th the mass of the Moon.

Answer 2

Considering that almost EVERY major religion makes reference to a Great Flood -then Yes. There could have been enough water.

In response to the other points issued:

First: it is not according to Noah that the flood occurred. It is according to the Word of God that the flood occurred.

Secondly, Does it matter that Noah couldn't tell if the WHOLE earth was flooded? The God Almighty told him it was and certainly NOAH's entire world was covered.

Third, Who says there were 1 million species of animals/insects at the time of the flood?

Lastly, do you happen to know how much dry land there was on earth prior to the flood? Can you be certain that some of today's oceans and bodies of water are not left from that same great flood?

Try not to get too caught up in the details - that's where confusion and doubt lie.

Answer 3

You seem to have your mind made up. Why are you asking this question.
Just so you know Noah never wrote the book of Genesis, Moses did by Divine revelation. The water didn't all fall from the sky.
Genesis 7:11 : ... all the fountains of the great deep broke open and the windows of heaven were opened.
The Bible also talks about Noah taking every sort and every kind not of every species, there is a difference.
Most of the waters turned into the oceans that we now know and didn't exist before.

Answer 4

Was There Enough Water?
Some critics of a universal flood have claimed that sufficient water simply wasn’t available to cover the mountains as the Bible describes. “And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered” (Genesis 7:19).

Scripture records that the “windows of heaven” were opened and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:4,11). In addition, “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up” (verse 11). This appears to refer to subterranean aquifers, which were emptied—perhaps by tectonic upthrusting. Clearly enormous amounts of water became available rather suddenly.

One point about this objection is that it assumes the topography of the earth today is just as it appeared in Noah’s time. This apparently is not so. Genesis 1:9 states that the waters of the earth (seas and oceans) were gathered in one place. Today the landmasses of the earth are scattered about its surface and all the seas are definitely not in one place. It may be that the current topography of our planet is at least partially the result of the tremendous geologic upheaval of a universal Flood.

A fascinating news item that received little attention appeared on the Nature magazine Web site March 8 (www.nature.com/nsu/020304/020304-10.html). “Geologists have divined water where you might least expect it: 1,000 kilometres below the Earth’s surface,” stated the report. “Here, rocks heated to over 1,000°C and squeezed under high pressures may harbour around five times as much water as in all the world’s oceans” (emphasis added). It explained that a team of Japanese geologists had concluded that this enormous amount of water was locked up in the superheated, superpressurized molten minerals surrounding the earth’s iron-rich core.

The conclusion that such an enormous amount of water exists trapped within the earth raises some intriguing possibilities in light of the Bible’s statement that “the fountains of the great deep were broken up.” GN

Answer 5

You need to read the story again, because you have several points incorrect. The waters did not come from only rain. They came from rain, from the windows of heaven (firmament) and from underground. Also, there were no ice caps at that time, and much of our water in locked up in the ice caps. He took 2 of each KIND of animal, not two of each species. That means there were 2 bovine, not 2 buffalo, 2 cows, 2 yaks, 2 water buffalo, etc.

Answer 6

I see the continental shelf as a possible explanation of pre and post flood water levels.

Answer 7

When the mountains rose up and when the Atlantic trenches opened up the waters receded. (speculating)

Answer 8

I would go to s8int.com. It explains it in detail. I just say that the water went back into the Earth.

Answer 9

There isnt enough oxygen or hydrogen in our atmosphere to make that much water to cover the earth to that depth. Of course, we are forgetting that this tale was told when the earth was still flat as well...

Its actually a fable stolen from the Mesopotamians - who have Noah actually sailing off to avoid some debt he owed...not to avoid punishment from God - but from Man!

Answer 10

I am sure there would be sciensitigfice answer for your good question.

we know that matter and energy can change, energy can become matter, and matter become energy.

may be water exchange and produce other matters.