Noah's Flood: Could the Water Cover Mt. Everest?

Question

Mount Everest is more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) high. How, then, could the flood have covered “all the high hills under the whole heaven”?

Answer 1

Mt. Everest and all the Himalayas are young mountains. I am not sure that they were then in the days of Pangia. Still there are ways to pull the waters of the earth that high. It would take a strong gravimetric pull but it could happen... Jim

Answer 2

Who says there replaced right into a Mt Everest earlier the flood...purely because of the fact the 1st submit replaced into asserting. we've not any concept how lots the earth replaced into replaced from earlier the flood to the era after the flood. We purely be attentive to what we now see at present.

Answer 3

Who says there was a Mt Everest before the flood...just as the first post was saying. We have no idea how much the earth was changed from before the flood to the period after the flood. We only know what we now see today.

Answer 4

O ye of little faith!! What wonders god can do.

I don't worry so much about the height of the water as the fact that noah's small band of survivors would have had to engage in fornication in a most incestuous manner in order to repopulate the earth. Add that to the Adam[s] family's inbreeding program and you can understand all the genetic mental shortcomings displayed daily on the internet.

Answer 5

The Bible refers only to “high hills,” and the mountains today were formed only toward the end of, and after, the flood by collision of the tectonic plates and the associated upthrusting. In support of this, the layers that form the uppermost parts of Mount Everest are themselves composed of fossil-bearing, water-deposited layers.

This uplift of the new continental landmasses from under the Flood waters would have meant that, as the mountains rose and the valleys sank, the waters would have rapidly drained off the newly emerging land surfaces. The collapse of natural dams holding back the flood waters on the land would also have caused catastrophic flooding. Such rapid movement of large volumes of water would have caused extensive erosion and shaped the basic features of today's earth surface.


Thus, it is not hard to envisage the rapid carving of the landscape features that we see on the earth today, including places such as the Grand Canyon of the United States.

The present shape of Uluru (Ayers Rock), as sandstone monolith in central Australia, is the result of erosion, following tilting and uplift, of previously horizontal beds of water-laid sand. The feldspar-rich sand that makes up Uluru must have been deposited very quickly and recently. Long-distance transport of the sand would have caused the grains to be rounded and sorted, whereas they are jagged and unsorted. If they had sat accumulating slowly in a lake bed drying in the sun over eons of time, which is the story told in the geological display at the park center, the feldspar would have weathered into clay.


Likewise, if Uluru had sat in the once-humid area of central Australia for millions of years, it would have weathered to clay.[3] Similarly, the nearby Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) are composed of an unsorted mixture of large boulders, sand, and mud, indicating that the material must have been transported and deposited very rapidly.

The erosion caused by receding flood waters is the reason that river valleys are far larger than the rivers now flowing in them could have carved. The water flow that carved the river valleys must have been far greater than the volume of water we see flowing in the rivers today. This is consistent with voluminous flood waters draining off the emerging land surfaces at the close of Noah's flood, and flowing into the rapidly sinking, newly prepared, deep ocean basins.

Our understanding of how the flood could have occurred is continually developing. Ideas come and go, but the fact of the flood remains. Genesis clearly testifies to it, Jesus and the apostles confirmed it, and there is abundant global geological evidence for a global watery cataclysm.

Christian Chaplain

Answer 6

Compare Mt. Everest to Mauna Kea. Which is taller?

Answer 7

First... it was God who did it... and God can make all the water he needs.... where did the water got after... same answer...God can do with it whatever he wants..... then you can look at it this way... in the solar system there is all the water that is needed to completely cover all the mountains of the Earth... again... God could well have brought the water from a moon around Jupiter if He wanted to... and put it back when he was done with it.... He is God after all... And God makes The Rules.... if God says it is going to rain... then by God it is going to rain as much water as God wants....

Answer 8

In Noah's day the mountains were not as high as they are now. The tremendous force of the water from the flood is what made them higher and the oceans deeper.

Answer 9

guess it did its purpose, which was not exactly to cover Mt. Everest.

Answer 10

I was told that their isn't enough water on this planet to cover the Earth.