Where did all the water go after the flood?

Question

Ok suppose the noahs ark crap is real; where did the water go? i'm sure god didn't suck it all up in the clouds. Also all that water would literally destroy vegetation and organisms that help produce crops and food so what the hell did noah eat after the waters went down? the animals??

After so much damage to the earth the soil would not of been able to produce or yeild crops for decades so how did Noah eat? i'm sure he couldn't of packed grains and food for 10 or 20 years.

Answer 1

You have too many sub-questions, so I'm just going to give you an answer for your original question. This comes from Answers In Genesis:

"There are a number of Scripture passages that identify the floodwaters with the present-day seas (Amos 9:6 and Job 38:8–11, note ‘waves’). If the waters are still here, why are the highest mountains not still covered with water, as they were in Noah’s day? Psalm 104 suggests an answer. After the waters covered the mountains (verse 6), God rebuked them and they fled (verse 7); the mountains rose, the valleys sank down (verse 8) and God set a boundary so that they will never again cover the earth (verse 9). They are the same waters!

Isaiah gives this same statement that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth (Isaiah 54:9). Clearly, what the Bible is telling us is that God altered the earth’s topography. New continental land-masses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from below the globe-encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre-Flood topography, while large deep ocean basins were formed to receive and accommodate the Flood waters that then drained off the emerging continents.

Without mountains or seabasins, water would cover the whole earth to a depth of 2.7 km, or 1.7 miles (not to scale).

That is why the oceans are so deep, and why there are folded mountain ranges. Indeed, if the entire earth’s surface were leveled by smoothing out the topography of not only the land surface but also the rock surface on the ocean floor, the waters of the ocean would cover the earth’s surface to a depth of 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles). We need to remember that about 70% of the earth’s surface is still covered by water. Quite clearly, then, the waters of Noah’s Flood are in today’s ocean basins."

Answer 2

Do you actually read the Bible? Or do you take an isolated story out, and make assumptions about it before seeing for yourself? Where does water go now, when it rains? Genesis 7 tells exactly, to the day, when Noah went into the ark with his family and the animals. Genesis 8, again, to the day, tells the process leading to when the earth was dry. That's being pretty darn precise. It was one whole year before the ground was dry enough for them to leave the ark, to the day. The simple answer? The water receded. Chapter 9, God tells Noah and his family what they can eat. Just read it, please. It's spelled out very clearly.

Answer 3

The bible doesn't say, but I would guess some combination of polar ice caps/dehydration/deepening of the oceans/raising of the continents.

"After so much damage to the earth the soil would not of been able to produce or yeild crops for decades so how did Noah eat?"
Fertilizer, of which I would assume he had a pretty good supply.

Answer 4

How much water was it? What?, you don't know? Wait, you mean you haven't done any research on the topic? You're just repeating questions that you've heard before or that you've copied from the internet? How much damage would 40 days of rain cause the crops? What is your source for "the soil would not of been able to produce or yeild crops for decades..."? Did you just make that up?

Answer 5

the water eveaporated over a period of time.
Like any flood, after its stops raining , and the sun starts to shine, and heat the earth, it evaporates. Why is the so hard to figure out.
As for the food. i'm sure they had stored, plenty of food. Noah was told how long it would take before the rain, stopped.
So he stored food for a certain period of time. If you read Genesis chp 8 v 1-6 you will find your answer.

Answer 6

What surprises me is that somebody with out glaring study skills in any respect would desire to alter right into a precise contributor. in case you probably did slightly analyze you may locate out that the earth in the previous noah replaced into basically approximately thoroughly dry land, and below the crust have been extensive vaults of water. while an earthquake in what's now the atlantic ocean split open the earth; the surge of water rippled the land for thousands of miles coming up issues like the appalachian mountains and particularly some different geographic formations. The explosion of water shot up into the ambience and fell for weeks like rain on barren area places that had in basic terms ever seen mists of water and underground springs, putting concern and awe interior the hearts of adult adult males. basically think of what the persons in Indonesia felt while a tsunami overwhelmed each and every thing they lived for.

Answer 7

It receded. Just like rainy days here, or hurricane katrina. How the waters receded is not some spiritual thing, it's science. Just like what happens to floods today. The waters recede and new plant life grows. It's not a big spiritual thing. Stop reading so much into it. And by the way, the story of Noah is real.

Answer 8

God is the one who made the flood and the one whom told noah to go....soo I am positive that God had all the provisions to sustain the life of noah and His family throughout the earths aft. flood problem of revegitation, as for the water,,,it seeped into the earth and settled to become the seas we have now... by reforming and shaping the deepness of the earth needed to hold massive amounts of water.....

Answer 9

It would be a mass about 1/10th that of the Moon. It's always amusing to hear the creative evasions for where it went.

Answer 10

You or some other asked the same question yesterday, I believe.

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