What happened to the water after Noah's flood?

Question

If the whole world was flooded due to 40 days of rain, I would assume the water evaporates, condenses, and then falls to the earth again as rain.
Gravity pulls water back down to the earth again, so where did the water go? It's not here anymore, but should be. Did it just "magically" dissappear also?

Answer 1

water cannot disappear it just get more accumilated in one place and less in another.,it is like a normal flood that you get in the philipines, it can rain heavily for a few days , washing the people away to drown.Now the 40 days rain was the same

Answer 2

How much of our planet is covered in water today? At least 70% though i think it is more. Also how much water is stored in ice? We are always being told that if it melts large areas of land will be covered. Also the bible says that the flood waters covered the mountains. Were these mountains as high as they are today?......Scientific Monthly magazine suggested that in earth’s earlier days “there were no high mountains forming physical or climatic barriers.” It was apparently the tremendous weight of the Flood waters that pushed mountain peaks to their high levels and produced more than six-mile-deep valleys in the ocean floor Then, too, in pre-Flood times there may have been considerably less of the earth’s surface covered by water. Regarding this the book The Genesis Flood observes: “In the past decade have been discovered great numbers of ‘seamounts,’ which are nothing but drowned islands out in the middle of the ocean. These are flat-topped, and therefore non-volcanic in formation, and are now in many cases more than 1,000 fathoms below the surface. Yet they give abundant evidence of having once been above the surface.”

Answer 3

"Also" assumes that something else "magically" happened first.
There are many theories and this is not necessarily the correct one. The Bible says that before the floodwater came up like a fog and watered the entire surface of the Earth. During the flood there was much water that came from the depths of the Earth (The Bible also says this). I know of an interesting theory in which hydrogen was supercooled (by the extremely low temperatures found in space) causing an extremely thin layer of metal that surrounded the Earth (Gravity held this in place as it completely surrounded the Earth) (The thin layer of supercooled hydrogen that allowed light to pass through has been created in Lab conditions, so it is possible that this could have happened in the past). This metal layer was so thin that much of the light from the sun came through but may have even stopped much of the negative solar radiation. Additionally this layer may have caused a more equal distribution of heat over the surface of the Earth which would have caused a smaller amount of water to be suspended than the post flood Earth as hotter air absorbs much larger amounts of water than cooler air.
There are many implications for this theory and I'm not going to even suggest that what I've written is 100% accurate, but it is an explanation that I heard, it explained how it could rain for 40 days straight without any "magical" intervention, it helps to show why our lives were so severally shortened post flood (as well as genetic reasons), and explained where the post flood water went.
If you have further questions please email me (especially for clarification if I haven't explained this as well as I hoped)

God Bless.

Answer 4

Someone who created the world could certainly figure out a way to evaporate water! But that is too easy and not as much fun of an answer; I think your question deserves a little more imagination. Think of how much water is stored in the ice caps and in glaciers. And think of how ice caps and glaciers grow and/or recede over time. Perhaps as the water evaporated, the climate got cooler at the poles and much of the water was locked up in the ice? Or perhaps the opposite happened and the climate warmed up. There may have been a prolonged drought which allowed the water to evaporate and seep back into the earth and not fall again as rain.

Answer 5

My thoughts on that after doing much research is that Noah lived in a civilization on a large fertile plain. At the end of the last major ice age, because of the melting of the ice, the Atlantic ocean broke through the Straight of Gibraltor and flooded that fertile plain and carried the boat eastward toward modern day Turkey. Remember the scripture said that besides the rain God opened the flood gates of the deep? And as to what happened to the water? It became what is now known as the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer 6

The known world was flooded, meaning the Middle East. Where I live, the flood waters are receding. They go away partly from evaporation, the wind blowing, and the ground soaking it up. It obviously went away like that since in all the other flood stories from the ancient peoples it did go and it didn't happen again.

Answer 7

Psalm 104:6-9 Also God could have moved the continents to their present place . The forming of the mountains receding the water ,That's how the grand canyon was formed .

Answer 8

It's kind of like the Big Bang Theory, except it's called the Giant Sponge Theory. Here's how it goes...

After the heavens opened up, everything not on the ark was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. But they said come hell or high water they were going to soak up all that water by the grace of god, and they did. The end.

Answer 9

You have an excellent analytical mind and a good motive for asking such question. Others ask just to put down practicing faith in bad light. That's why I gave you a star.

Answer 10

Trying to look at religion from a scientific standpoint just doesnt happen. A religion type person would answer God took it away. Which is of course bogus. They also believe the earth is 5000 years old and that the sun revolves around the earth. And that dna and evolution isnt real. And natives and japan and india all never existed.