Noah's flood...Where did all that water come from?

Question

I haven't thought about this, but I just saw a post by another User....Is there enough water to cover every mountain? And where did it all go?

Answer 1

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/flood.htm

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EDIT: I see I'm getting thumbs down, probably for posting a link with no text. That's OK, Eleventy knows why. Glad it caught your eye.

Answer 2

It came from outer space in the form of an ice ball or comet. As it passed near the Earth, it broke up under the influence of the Earth's gravity (a phenomenon known as Roche's Limit). The ice particles (which were close to Absolute Zero) fell to Earth. The enveloped some of the animals, such as the woolly mammoth. This is the only explanation of animals of that size being quick frozen with vegetation still in their mouths.

Also, the gravity of the ice ball before it broke up, cause the release of sub-terrainian water by causing fissures in the Earths' crust. In all probability, the mountains were not as high as they are now. The fissures in the Earth's crust caused folding which resulted in new, higher mountains.

As the structure of the Earths crust continued to move, the water settled in the lower areas resulting in the oceans. As the climate changed, the polar region (formerly tropical) became quite cold. Some of the water formed the polar ice caps.

Answer 3

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Where did the waters go?

Gen 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 asswaged;

Gen 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

the rain from heaven was restrained/stopped.

Noah was on the ark for one solar year.

Answer 4

There is enough water because the oceans are deeper than the mountains are high and a good percentage of the earth is covered by water.

And yet, does that mean that it happened?

If it didn't, what would incite people to say that it had?

Answer 5

If you do the math it would require 6" per min. to cover Everest in 40 days. The resulting vapor pressure would not leave enough oxygen.

It is such a patently absurd story that I can't believe that anyone could even think that.

Oh ya, the 3 species of Elephants would need more food than the displacement of the largest wooden ship by 100 tons. That isn't counting the ship, 6 elephants, the rest of the animals, or Noah.

Answer 6

The Bible says it reined, and that the depths of the earth opened up.
This raises the question, was it a local or global flood?
But even then, was the land mass all together? If so, maybe the mountains weren't very high, if at all. If the land separated, then possibly the mountains formed.
But having said this, I believe in the flood, as the Bible mentions is.

Answer 7

Nope, not even close.

Everest is about 5 miles high. If all the ice around the globe melted, it would only raise the level of the oceans by a fraction of that.

The story of the Great Flood is a fabrication.

Answer 8

Scientificly we know that there was never a world wide flood.

There have been localized floods. In fact nearly every culture has a flood story. However these stories do not connect to being the same time in history.

Face it the bible is fantasy not reality.

Answer 9

Forty days and forty nights of torrential downpour could very well have covered every mountain at that time (geography has changed). The theory I propose is that when the rains stopped, the water took its natual course gravity wise to the oceans, lakes and streams - probably creating new ones. Jeez this answer sounds too serious - it's only theory!

Answer 10

The planet does not have enough water (in liquid, ice, or vapor form) to cover all the land on the entire planet. Not even close. The ocean levels would have to have risen miles.

I like the answers you got that say it came from "rain." The epitome of ignorance, from people who do not understand where rain comes from. The elementary school system has failed these people drastically.

Answer 11

"The fountains of the deep" would indicate to me water springing up out of the earth (eg from the Artesian basin), as well as what fell from the sky.

I believe the whole earth was covered with water - it was her baptism - but its possible that other families were saved in a similar manner to Noah's.