All the water of Earth, condensed to a single sphere.
Posted on 09/30/2012 6:17:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All the water of Earth, condensed to a single sphere.
And?
I moved to the region ten years ago and have been fascinated with the topography/geology. There are huge boulders the size of a house sitting in the middle of the dry plains off I-90 in Central Washington that came from the Canadian Rockies a hundred or more miles away. Only one way they could have gotten there.... water/ice.
There are two theories about the Missoula ice dam that burst so long ago. One says the event occurred numerous times over thousands of years. The other says there was one cataclysmic event at the end of the ice age where one of the worlds largest freshwater lakes (possibly the largest ever) suddenly drained after the ice gave way holding Lake Missoula. Prehistoric Lake Missoula contained most of the water from the Canadian Rockies.
I think it may have been the PBS special on the event(s) that suggested this caused the largest single release of energy in the Earth’s history. I don’t know, but it still fascinates me everytime I travel through Central Washington. To see massive rounded boulders that travelled over a hundred miles gives you an idea of how powerful it must have been! The Rathdrum aquifer also runs through this region from the same source of water as the Columbia River and forms the Spokane river system. It is one of the most powerful aquifers in the world. Prior to the Grand Coulee dam and other dams the Columbia must have been amazingly violent!
Geologist will argue about one event or many for the rest of my life because there is evidence that supports both theories.
“When J Harlen Bretz uncovered evidence of giant floods in eastern Washington in the 1920s, it took most of the 20th century for other geologists to believe him. Geologists had so thoroughly vilified the concept of great floods that they could not believe it when somebody actually found evidence of one. “
It is kind of like trying to convince someone of what the current leaders are dong to this country. It is a lost cause. People refuse to see what is right in front of their faces.
Just check out Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington State and you’ll see the evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZ1-_aod80
You make several assumptions. One is that the land masses were the same and of the same height. But that’s a digression,the earth’s land masses were completely covered in ice at one time so...
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/09.17/EarthWasComplet.html
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Thanks for this thread.
By faith, we believe the Scriptures. Permitting that point of view to “filter” what we see, the world is one big kaleidoscope of evidence for the (one) worldwide flood.
For example, try explaining the formations in the Western US desert any other (credible) way.
If you will not believe, then I cannot persuade you, of course.
Is that accurate? That doesn’t seem like enough. I guess from our perspective the oceans seem really deep but in the scale of the whole globe they are just a thin sheet. Still seems like too little, though. And by the way, that sphere is sitting right on top of my house.
I’m headed up to Sun Lakes State Park (with Dry Falls towering above it) later this week with the boat. Fishing season ended today, though.
Don’t understand your first link.
That happened where we live also. About 400,000 years ago there was a giant lake here in southern Colorado. To our south about 30 miles is a line of volcanoes that were the dam for the lake. The water broke through and the lake drained scouring a canyon into northern New Mexico. The present day Rio Grande flows through the canyon now and in that section there are class 4 and 5 rapids. We could sure use some of that water today.
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I meant to put a link up for Dry Falls State Park.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Falls
If you want a link here is one but I heard about it in a radio interview with a geologist who wrote a book about it for rafters. I can’t remember the name of the book or the author. Found it interesting since I live where the lake used to be.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1193/pdf/OF07-1193_ChG.pdf
Which formations would those be, and how did they exactly form, according to you?
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