Evidently not so hard as you assume:
“01 January 2009 Early Earth ‘was covered in water’ [Keyword: earth ]
Earth was once a ‘waterworld’ much like the one depicted by Hollywood, scientists believe.
A new model of the early Earth suggests that until around 2.5 billion years ago oceans covered almost the whole of the planet.
Just 2% to 3% of the Earth's surface would have been dry land, compared with 28% today.
The Earth at that time may have resembled the way it looked in Waterworld, the 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie starring Kevin Costner.
New Scientist magazine reported: “As the mantle cooled, land would have gradually appeared as the oceans became deeper and regions of high relief on the continental crust formed.”
www.earthdive.com/site/news/newsdetail.asp?...true...
Now where have I read this before? Maybe in the first few chapters of Genesis? and I'm not talking about Noah.
“Pretty black and white. Your God is a vengeful and jealous God. Why is he worthy of my worship? He should stop having his son appear in grilled cheese sandwiches and concentrate more on stopping tsunamis and famine”
Maybe men should stop wasting billions of dollars on trying to find life on Mars and demonstrate their Darwinian derived morality and prevent famine. Or maybe spend a few dollars and good sense not to build right up to water's edge.
Much easier to blame God for human failings. Correctable failings.
” But then again, that has nothing to do with this thread.”
Has that ever been a problem in the past?
A new model of the early Earth suggests that until around 2.5 billion years ago oceans covered almost the whole of the planet.
Just 2% to 3% of the Earth’s surface would have been dry land, compared with 28% today.
The Earth at that time may have resembled the way it looked in Waterworld, the 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie starring Kevin Costner.
You read in Genesis that the earth is over 2.5 billion years old?