Like the Bible says. Did the top of every mountain on earth get covered in water like 4000 years ago.
2007-08-25 17:01:27 · 7 answers · asked by skip_holden 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
In his book "Innumeracy," John Palos computes that half a billion (500,000,000) cubic miles of liquid would be neede to cover the earth, with biologist Ralf Stephan estimating a required depth of 9,000 meters. Such an inundation would probably kill most of the plant life on earth, and even if the waters were to recede, the resulting salt deposits would prevent plants from growing for many years, thus leading many of the seeds and plants that could survive the initial flood itself to die out.
i'm not even going to start on the issues of saving animals, except to say that if it were to rain 40 days & 40 nights (as it does in the biblical version of the flood) then this would mean that the rain fell at an astonishing 15 feet per hour (9,000 meters in the 960 hour span), which is enough to sink any aircraft carrier, much less a hand made wooden ark loading thousands of animals
2007-08-25 17:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by nick m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every part of the earth has been underwater at one point of another of the last billion years. If read closely all tales of floods differ in how much land stayed dry for the population and how long ago the flooding took place. Also, most mountains were once flat plains the were pushed upword via the actions of plate tectonics--which explains aquatic fossils on mountain peaks.
2007-08-26 00:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. There is geological and other evidence that the the middle east experienced flooding. For instance what some believe is Noah's Ark is sitting atop a mountain in Turkey. The middle east did flood and at the time that was the entire (known) world.
Michael John Weaver, M.S.
2007-08-26 00:48:33 · answer #3 · answered by psiexploration 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every culture world wide has a story about a global flood. While some people think they're all about local floods, they're too consistent to think they're talking about different floods.
2007-08-26 00:11:38 · answer #4 · answered by javadic 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So they tell me. Terry's points are valid. Pangea was roughed up with all those millions of tons of ice melting.
2007-08-26 08:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by Sal D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Total flooding, no. Couldnt be. I am sure that their was some as we moved out of the ice age but total...no.
2007-08-26 00:22:46 · answer #6 · answered by Erie_Irish 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
2007-08-26 00:19:45 · answer #7 · answered by kskwwjd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋