Help... I need some "ammo" over in Religion & Spirituality?

Question

This is a two fold question from a non-scientist.

1. How much water would it actually take to flood the entire earth to the point of a boat landing on tom of Mt Ararat in Turkey?

2. Would that be sufficient weight to screw up the earth's orbit? What would happen?

Rosie: which side am I on? Who cares? I want a true anser! :-)

Answer 1

!) If both icecaps melted and all the ground water on earth came to the surface, evaporated into rain and fell in the area around southern Europe, Northern Africa, The near and middle East; it would be sufficient to flood the Mediterranean basin to the top of Mt Ararat. This is highly unlikely. It would have inspired drought myths in the rest of the world from that time. Some geologists believe that quite dramatic, greater than normal flooding of rivers in the distant past might have influenced the flood myths. One of the latest, and quite controversial, theories of this type is the Ryan-Pitman Theory, which argues for a catastrophic deluge about 5600 BC from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea. Many other prehistoric geologic events, including tsunamis, have also been advanced as possible foundations for these myths. For example, some have asserted that the original versions of the Greek myth of Deukalion's flood likely originated from the effects of the megatsunami created by the eruption of Thera in the 18th-15th century BC.[17] More speculatively, some have suggested that flood myths could have arisen from folk stories of the huge rise in sea levels that accompanied the end of the last Ice Age some 10,000 years ago, passed down the generations as an oral history. Another controversial theory is that a deluge was caused by one or more asteroid impacts which released a large amount of water vapor into the atmosphere and low space.
2) If and asteroid the size of the moon hit the earth (Most paleontologists now agree that an asteroid that size did hit the Earth about 65 million years ago) It could skew the rotation And drastically effect the weather patterns; but Earth is rotating at a speed of about 1100 miles per hour. If our planet suddenly stopped rotating, the atmosphere would still be in motion at that speed. The atmosphere would be moving so fast it would literally sweep the land masses clear of anything not anchored to bedrock, this would mean rocks, soil, trees, buildings, people and animals. All would be swept up into the atmosphere.

Answer 2

If you read Genesis 7 : 17-20, you will find that the waters , during the 40 days & 40 nights of rain , rose 15 cubits( 20 ft.) above the top of the mountains. That is plenty of water to allow the ark to settle on Mt. Ararat when the waters started receding. When it started raining, there already was water and dry land, so 40 days & nights of steady hard rain would amount to an unbelieveable amount of water. As far as the flood doing something to the earth's orbit, I have never personally heard or read anything that would even begin to suggest that. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

The volume of earth's water may have decreased over time (but long prior to human evolution).

There have been a few papers that address the concept that water may be lost to the hydrologic cycle through subduction and seafloor water-rock interaction that leads to the formation of hydrous minerals that contain water in their crystals. Such minerals include things like serpentenite, which is hydrously altered basalt.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Read "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Schermer. Also go to Scientific American Magazine website sciam.com and look up 15 Answers To Creationist's Nonsense. It is a great article.

Answer 6

What side are you on?

Flash floods can cause local flooding. It doesn't have to be enough water to cover the globe by the height of the mountain.

Mind you - that is one hell of a flash flood - they normally occur in restricted areas.

Answer 7

Here's some good ammo against a global flood.. just ask some of the questions they pose here:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html#flood

here's another good site:
http://www.fsteiger.com/flood-report.html