The "great flood" supposedly covered the tallest mountain, therefore it was over 29,000 feet deep (Mt Everest)

Question

......The entire world was covered with water 29,000 feet above the level of the oceans today (just a bit preposterous, is it not?). We could use all that water today, if we just knew where it all went. Exactly WHERE did all that water go? Did it just "soak in?" Did "god" create an Immaculate Receding? Fundies, feel free to explain, but please don't waste pixels and look bad by saying it "evaporated", our atmosphere could not hold one perecnt of that amount of water.

Gee, where are the fundies, who just a few minutes ago said that they KNEW the story of the Noah and the "great flood" was true? They are not helping us with an answer.

Dear pilgrim1: So Mt Ararat was there, but Mt Everest, and presumably K2 and the rest of the Himalayas were "created" after the flood? Yes, I am sure that is is highly likely. Are you beyond embarrassment?

Don't you love the cut and paste crowd?

Answer 1

Satan hadn't built the mountains yet; he was still burying dinosaur bones.

Answer 2

The flood probably destroyed the world as Noah would have understood it. Let's remember that in that time most people (especially a farmer ) would never have travelled far from their place of birth and that even those who did would have had no understanding of how big the world really is. A flood that covered an area the size of Connecticut would seem to have innundated the entire planet (which they still didn't know was round).

There are those who don't believe that we should take all of these stories literally , that they are parables used to illustrate a point. A story like the flood would be flawed anyway since the persons who were there to bear witness to it (Noah and his kin) would have been dead long before it was written down.

I believe that there was a flood. It probably took place around the end of the last ice age and killed everything in sight except for a few who prepared (perhaps by chance perhaps by guessing according to contemporary weather patterns that there would be an innundation) and that they understood what happened as God punishing the wicked.

There is evidence for this based on the FACT that there are similar flood stories from different cultures around the world. Also there WAS an ice age 17,000 years ago .

At this time there were already societies and cultures developing and human beings were all around the globe.

When the ice sheets receded there would have been terrible floods and Earthquakes for centuries and these no doubt would have affected people everywhere and seemed to them like divine intervention.

Finding a deeper significance in tragic situations such as this and passing down ones understanding of these events is a very human trait.

Answer 3

Do you know how deep the Pacific ocean is?

70% of the Earth's suface is still covered with water.
It is obvious that at the end of the flood the ocean basins sank down to lower than before the flood, and the land rose up. So mountains are higher now than before the flood and oceans deeper. You would not have to lower the mountains by very much and raise the sea beds by very much to cover all the land with water. There is certainly sufficient water in the present seas and oceans to cover all the land to a great depth.
We know for certain that the sea covered Mount Everest at one time, because there are sedimentary layers at the top of the mountain with millions of fossilised bivalves (shellfish) in them. These shellfish were buried alive and rapidly with a sudden inundation of sediment, we know this because the bivalves are mostly tightly closed (all bivalves open up when they are dead) so the were closed (alive) when they were buried and the sheer weight of sediment on top of them kept them closed.
Scientific evidence supports the worldwide flood described in the Bible, and so do the folklore, tales and legends from dozens of nations and tribes throughout the world.

Answer 4

Could it be possible that the mountains were not as high 5,000 years ago?

Also, as far as where the water came from, the Bible tells us. Ge 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Answer 5

The himalayas grow to be continually respected by capability of the ancients, and unearths point out interior the classic scripts. Mount everest grow to be continually the tallest mountain interior the worldwide, because of the fact that guy has been fascinated in capability of the optimum peaks.

Answer 6

The story is a myth. The same story is in the Gilgamesh poem. Anthrasis is another story from Samaria.

The last ice age did have a meltdown approx 6000 yrs ago. The water covered much of the land masses around the world. Perhaps that is why the stories were developed.

Answer 7

Why did recorded life spans decrease after the flood?

I just think you are asking the wrong questions. Why does every continent have a flood story? Why would there be evidence of a flood?... It'd look a lot like years of erosion. But maybe it's explain why it takes 10 feet of vegitation to make one foot of coal,.. and there are coal beds 30 feet thick.

Answer 8

The Bible book of Genesis says that God used an earthwide flood to destroy the wicked people in Noah’s day. Some persons, however, have assumed that the Biblical account is exaggerated. They think it may refer to a local flood of unparalleled magnitude that likely occurred in the Mesopotamian valley. But they believe that the Bible overstates matters when it says that all humans on earth except Noah and his family died.

Yet the Bible is specific as to the Flood’s being global. There is nothing in its record to limit the Flood to a particular area. Neither is there any indication that others besides Noah and his family survived.

Explaining the universal magnitude of the Flood, the Bible says: “The waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered. Up to fifteen cubits the waters overwhelmed them and the mountains became covered.” (Gen. 7:19, 20) And, recording the effect upon all life, the account continues: “Thus [God] wiped out every existing thing that was on the surface of the ground, from man to beast, to moving animal and to flying creature of the heavens, and they were wiped off the earth; and only Noah and those who were with him in the ark kept on surviving.”—Gen. 7:23.

Obviously the source of the floodwaters was not the moisture that is ordinarily found in the atmosphere today. For it has been estimated that if all the atmospheric water were suddenly released as rain, it would cover the earth’s surface only to an average depth of less than two inches. There must be another explanation, then, for all this water, and the Bible gives it.

In its brief account of creation the Bible says regarding the forming of earth’s atmosphere: “And God went on to say: ‘Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the waters.’ Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse.”—Gen. 1:6, 7.

The waters “beneath” the atmospheric “expanse” were the waters on the surface of the earth. Whereas, “the waters . . . above the expanse” were vast quantities of moisture suspended high above the earth, evidently in the form of a heavy vapor. These waters surrounded our earth in its earlier history.

Regarding the possibility of the existence of such suspended waters, the book The Genesis Flood (1961), by John C. Whitcomb, Jr., and Henry M. Morris, observes:

“The region above about 80 miles is very hot, over 100° F and possibly rising to 3000° F, and is in fact called the thermosphere for this reason. High temperature, of course, is the chief requisite for retaining a large quantity of water vapor. Furthermore, it is known that water vapor is substantially lighter than air and most of the other gases making up the atmosphere. There is thus nothing physically impossible about the concept of a vast thermal vapor blanket once existing in the upper atmosphere.”

However, the exact height and the way in which the waters were held above the earth cannot be known by us with certainty. But we do know that it was to these suspended waters that the Christian apostle Peter referred when writing under God’s inspiration about the Noachian flood. He explains that there was “an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water,” and that “by those means the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.”—2 Pet. 3:5, 6.

What tremendous changes occurred in earth’s surface with the fall of this vast canopy of water! This immense weight of water apparently caused a shifting and buckling of earth’s relatively thin crust. Thus, new mountains were thrust upward, old mountains rose to new heights, shallow sea basins were deepened and new shorelines were established.

And, too, the sudden fall of this canopy and the tremendous upheavals of earth would create great waves of rushing water—accomplishing in a matter of days what many scientists believe took millenniums of time to occur by slow processes of erosion. Mighty torrents of water carved out

ut some persons, nevertheless, question the accuracy of the Bible’s account of an earthwide flood. They cannot understand where all the water from such a flood could have gone. When they contemplate waters covering “all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens,” they think of the more than five-mile-high Himalayan peaks.

However, there is no reason to believe that the pre-Flood mountains had to be nearly as high as that. You may recall that the 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

Answer 9

Since God is the Creator of all the elements, and nothing is impossible for Him, I suppose He could have done anything He wanted to with it. We can not begin to comprehend the vastness of God's capabilities or Wisdom, with our finite minds. Especially if we do not study His Word, or have any real desire to know Him. He reveals His mysteries to those whose hearts are genuine toward Him.

Answer 10

Great question. And that pixel thing, it really made me laugh!

I think the great flood happened only in a restricted area in the middle east and they thought it happened all over the world. Of course it is an exaggeration, even if it were true.

The water did not soak in neither did it evaporate. It's just that those who wrote these Biblical scriptures had not taken a mathematics and physics course!

Answer 11

Dear Paradox,

Perhaps Mt. Everest was created by the cataclysmic flood. The amount of water (40 days and nights of continuous rainfall) caused tremeondous pressures which moved the techtonic plates and caused Mt. Everest as well as others in that immediate area to be created.