If the earth was flooded with salt water 4400 years ago?

Question

How are we able to grow anything? The amount of salt water that would have been absorbed into the soil would have rendered it sterile for a few thousand years, yet Noah was growing grapes very shortly after the flood.

If you are going to tell me that the oceans were less salty please provide me with documented evidence of such.

Yes 40 days and 40 nights of rain, there is no way that it rained that much that is why the "fountains of the deep" and "windows of heaven" were nessecary. Unless it rain about 6 inches a minute for the 40 days and nights, which of course would also be impossible as clouds only hold so much water.

Answer 1

*thinking, with puzzled look on face*

Let's see....the salty waters were drunk by the dinosaurs...who then were extinct, 'cause their blood pressure went through the roof from all the salt....and then the Seven Plagues of Egypt came, one of which was turning water to blood, and since blood has a high composition of salt, that absorbed the water in the ground.....and then another one of the plagues was frogs, and everyone knows that frogs can process salt, which is why their legs are highly prized as a delicacy...from the salt....

Yeah, that sounds about right. ;)

Answer 2

Er, who said that there was even a global ocean before the flood?

In the second chapter of the Book of the Genesis, Earth have become barren, where plants are only periodically watered by springs around the Earth (no rain or anything like that).

This in contrast the first chapter, where everything seems to be okay and Earth seems got enough water.

Obviously between the first chapter and the second chapter, Earth's surface have lost plenty of water.

Unless of course you think the second chapter is a more detailed explanation of the first chapter.

A rainbow appear after the flood, indicating that Earth's atmosphere is now rich with water vapors.



As for salt water.

It's quite possible the salt came the same way Sodom-Gommorah's salt came from.

It's possible that salt on the sea came from the deads, much like Lot's wife was reduced to her basic components (including mostly salt).



Anyway. It's clear the initial start of the flood is caused by the fountains of the deep, however that alone probably isn't enough, that's why the floodgates of heaven were opened.

What are the floodgates of heaven?

Well, there are many possible sources of the floodgates of heaven.

Here's a possibility.

The Moon acted as a water carrier.

It wasn't in Earth orbit at the time and carried the water to Earth.

After releasing its water to Earth, it then adjust its movement (much easier now since some of its mass are gone) and start orbiting the Earth.

The released water then slowly fall into Earth and become part of the global rain.

Then at the end of the rain, the Earth start absorbing the water.

Whatever water left near the surface become the global ocean, the lakes, the glacier, the polar ice caps, the atmospheric water vapors, and so on.

That's a possible scenario on how Earth got its moon (with its unique orbit) and how Earth got its huge amount of water (that seems to be most unique in the Solar System).

Much more rational than the giant impact hypothesis and the comet water delivery system, but probably discouraged officially due its scriptural references.

Answer 3

Too funny...you're speculating about the past using your knowledge of the present. For one, you believe in evolution don't you? The marine life we see today has had a few thousand years to adapt to the changes in the salinity levels in the ocean. You're also assuming that all the water "used" in the flood was fresh water. On what are you basing that assumption...the fact that rain is fresh water? The bible said that rain was only a small part of what caused the flood...the rest was caused by "breaking open" great stores of underground water. If some of those aquifers contained salt water, then it would have been possible to release the water from them at an appropriate rate to maintain the salinity levels around them...essentially creating pockets of "safe" water for the animals living in those pockets. As for the coral, the water levels returned to normal in less than a year...a year simply isn't enough time to make all species of coral extinct...dormant perhaps but not extinct. ...and even if it was, surely the God that created it in the first place could have recreated it after the waters receded. No doubt a lot of the marine life did die...but more than enough would have survived to account for the varieties we see today. Only an ignorant person would suggest that the flood had no impact on the marine ecosystem...but the suggestion it would have eliminated it is equally ignorant given what we know about how a marine ecosystem can recover from all the things we do to change its balance (e.g., oil spills, chemical dumping, etc...).

Answer 4

I believe the great flood happened at the end of the last great ice age. I believe that the Mediterranean basin was dry inhabited land with villages and cities in the time of Noah. I believe the Atlantic burst through the Berring Straight at the end of the last ice age when God brought on the 40 days of rain and that it flooded the entire basin, carried the Ark in the direction of Turkey, which is in the correct direction if this happened this way, and created the Mediterranean Sea. I don't see a problem with the salt in the water at that time because it was the end of an ice age and the fresh water ice was melting into the sea making it less salty than it is today. I have no proof. So if anyone has a better theory, I'm open to listening to it.

Answer 5

Well, I was bored, so I felt like doing math to back up your claims against anyone who might say that all that rain diluted things to the extent that it didn't matter.

Ocean water has a salinity of about 35 parts per thousand, and the volume of the oceans now is 1.37 billion cubic kilometer. I'll assume Everest, at 8,848 meters in height, to be the difference between sea level and the highest point that this water need to accomplish.

The volumetric radius of the earth is 6,370 km, if we assume fairly minimal land volume above sea level (a favorable assumption for dilutionists), the volume of water should be the difference between this, and this plus the height of everest. The new volume of the oceans of the earth comes out to be getting 2,544,805,000 km^3 extra, making the total volume around 3.9 billion square kilometers. This puts at the new salinity at 12.3 ppt.

One would expect the deposits on the bottom of such a huge body of water to at least contain the same salinity as the water, but it would likely be higher. All the same, assuming soil would then have a salinity of ~12, very few plants would be able to grow.

Answer 6

It doesn't rain salt water. But that doesn't let the fundies off the hook. The freshwater would have diluted the salinity of the sea to the point where sea fishes could not survive, and the encroachment into freshwater reserves of the salt from the flooded seas would have killed all the freshwater fish.

I doubt that salt would have left the land sterile for long. It would have washed down deep, created underground salt reserves, and stayed there. But there would be no fish left alive, anywhere.

As if any of it actually happened.

Answer 7

Well, the story is that rained 40 days and 40 nights.

Precipitation usually precludes the sodium chloride particulates.

Of course, following the big flood all the animals on Noah's ark must have been thirsty which explains where all the rainwater went.

It's common sense really. Jeese~!. You atheists are a tough crowd!

Answer 8

There is more salt in the EARTH than in the ocean...in fact that is where the salt comes from, the earth. Plus, I do believe that the flood waters came from the sky, so unless God was seasoning with salt, I consider this question to be worthy of an LMAO.

Answer 9

Didn't know that rain was salt water. The water that flooded the earth came from two places, the sky and the ground. It's not like the water in the oceans multplied in order to cover the earth and last I checked rain and underground springs were not salt water.

Answer 10

Yeah, lol let me add a little to that. How is it that the polar ice is made of fresh water and not salt water?

lol Jack B. I'd like to hear the entire story, your version.