Or did God ship some in (and back out) for the "great flood".
2007-11-02 08:14:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No there isn't.
Unlike other solids, you also have to remember that water expands as it freezes so you can't store concentrated water as ice which is what a theist might otherwise claim.
In the bible it says the waters came from heaven, they weren't talking about some mythical dimension - they meant the sky as in 'gazing at the heavens' we still use it in colloquial speech.
Water came down from the sky - they didn't know rain had to come from groundwater - they were ignorant farmers living in the bronze-age. They didn't know much of anything.
Its funny that after we found heaven wasn't in the sky it just got moved somewhere else, that part of the bible became symbolic even though the tower of Babel was only knocked down because God didn't want a building reaching up to heaven. So I guess they believed you could get to it bodily. How did God make such a mistake?
*Some fundamentalists claim the water went underground afterwards. Huh... what was keeping it above ground then? I guess there was a big plug god had to pull out first.*
2007-11-02 08:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
No, but there might be enough in the mantle.
If the surface had less relief there could be up to 1 mile of water above our heads, as it is now, no -- the ice caps melting would flood the world "only" 200 feet higher, we should worry about that.
2007-11-02 08:22:58 · answer #2 · answered by JA 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some scientists say there is only 1/4 or so enough for a world flood. The core cannot have water. It is much too dense. that has been determined.
2007-11-02 08:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no.
Yes, all of the land above the seas can fit beneath the sea level if they were so dumped...ie the ocean is bigger and deeper than the land is high.
No, as currently configured, if all the ice melted, the oceans would rise less than 5 feet....if just the northern ice melted, sea levels would actually fall slightly. However, there is a subterranean ocean, larger that the Arctic Ocean, beneath China. If all that water ever made it to the surface, most, if not all of the land masses, would be inundated.
2007-11-02 08:20:12 · answer #4 · answered by Black Fedora 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nowhere near.
Creationists say it came from a layer of ice surrounding the Earth, but this is clearly impossible, as ice is opaque even after a few centimetres. No sunlight would get in, and all life would have died.
2007-11-02 08:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
to respond to your 2nd question: heat salty water flows on the exterior of the sea northward to the north atlantic, warmth introduced by using the sea currents warms the ambience on the northern latitudes bringing moisture, this turns to snow by way of cool climate and accumulates as ice. the warmth water cools and sinks and is circulated in the deep ocean...you could examine up greater by using sorting out suggestions on the thermohaline flow.
2016-10-03 04:54:24 · answer #6 · answered by xerxes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but that does not mean we shouldn't worry about the ice caps melting!
2007-11-02 08:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to the Bible, the water came up from underground.... like magic
2007-11-02 08:17:51 · answer #8 · answered by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
*If*, and believe me, this is a big if... you believe in God and the Bible in its saying that the Great Flood will not happen again, then no.
If you actually use science as a reason for the things that happen, then yes, it's possible.
2007-11-02 08:17:16 · answer #9 · answered by your_star_03 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Nope.
Apparently there are vast stores of it in the center of the earth.
2007-11-02 08:16:50 · answer #10 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋