Figure 1. This view of the globe shows how the waters of Noah’s Flood receded into the oceans. The Pacific Ocean covers virtually the whole hemisphere.
CMI article figure and caption.
Posted on 01/09/2017 9:07:20 AM PST by fishtank
How did the waters of Noah’s Flood drain off the continents?
by Mike Oard
Many ask: “If Noah’s Flood really covered the whole earth, then where did the water go?”
This question has a simple answer, and once we understand what happened and how, we can see the reality of the biblical Flood all around the world.
As the ocean basins sank, thousands of metres of sediment washed off the continents, forming the continental margin. The floodwater is in the oceans
Actually, the Bible tells us where the water went. By Day 150 of the Flood catastrophe the floodwaters had risen until they covered “all the high mountains under the whole heaven” (Genesis 7:19). After that “the waters receded from the earth continually” (Genesis 8:3), a process that took about seven months.
As the water receded from the continents it must have flowed into the oceans. It only takes a quick look at a globe of the earth to appreciate that the water indeed sits in the oceans. The Pacific Ocean alone takes up almost half the earth’s surface (Figure 1).
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Figure 1. This view of the globe shows how the waters of Noah’s Flood receded into the oceans. The Pacific Ocean covers virtually the whole hemisphere.
CMI article figure and caption.
From the article:
Figure 5. A schematic of the Uinta Mountains rising about 12,000 m (40,000 ft) out of the floodwater (drawn by Mrs. Melanie Richard).
The covering of Mount Everest ‘challenge’—answered
Many consider the height of Mount Everest at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft—Figure 4) a fatal flaw for the Genesis Flood.
How could the floodwater have topped the mountains, they ask? Even if the ocean floor was raised to sea level, the present water on the earth would be only 2,700 metres (8,800 ft) deep, one-third the depth needed to cover Mount Everest. Differential vertical tectonics as the floodwater was draining provides the answer,10 because the mountains were pushed up as a result of the Flood, by way of upward vertical tectonics.
It is clear that the mountains were once under the ocean because the sedimentary rocks that form the tops of most mountains contain marine fossils. For example, Mount Everest is topped with marine crinoid (sea lily) fossils embedded in limestone.11
This means that Mount Everest and the other high mountains in our present world, with their sedimentary rocks and fossils, rose up out of the floodwater during the later stages of the Flood. Figure 5 illustrates how, as the floodwater drained, the Uinta Mountains of the western United States rose about 12,000 metres (40,000 ft) compared with the same type of rock in the basins to the north and south, which sank with other sedimentary rocks filling the basins (formations 5–7, Figure (5d)).
So the oceanic basins did not exist prior to the flood? The ocean floor was flatter?
So in addition to a great flood, there was also a collapse of the ocean floor and extremely rapid (hundreds of feet per day) uplifting of continents?
Very slowly......................
Why try to find a scientific explanation for something that is expected to be taken on faith?
JEREMIAH 5:22
Have you no respect for Me? Why don’t you tremble in My presence? I, the LORD, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross. The waves may toss and roar, but they can never pass the boundaries I set.
PSALM 104:9
Then You set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.
I believe that it is likely that the same event that brought us the flood also brought us our mountain ranges. A close encounter with another planet like Venus or Mars, or some other that has long since left our solar system.
I believe that before the flood there was no such thing as a sunny day. It was always overcast, only VERY heavy overcast. And a lot of that water is what makes up our oceans today.
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>> “How did the waters of Noah’s Flood drain off the continents?” <<
They didn’t.
The continents were warped upward during the collisions that shaped them.
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The most immediate challenge this presents is that the Quartzite is solid. The illustration suggests the Quartzite was pre-existing: Did the solid mass bend as a plastic, moving many feet a day, without being destroyed by those forces?
Also, how did fossils become embedded within the formations 1 through 4? And why do the sequence of formation numbers correspond to the supposed natural history according to the old-earth hypothesis?
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Did you forget about “the fountains of the great deep?”
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>> It was always overcast, only VERY heavy overcast. And a lot of that water is what makes up our oceans today. <<
Overcast? Try a black 1,000 times darker than you could ever begin to imagine. And an atmospheric pressure of millions of times the present pressure.
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>> “And why do the sequence of formation numbers correspond to the supposed natural history according to the old-earth hypothesis?” <<
They absolutely do not!!!!
That is a crazy myth that exists solely in the imaginations of the committed liars.
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I always had a problem with Noah’s ark. If the flood covered the whole earth, how did Noah catch the Alaskan grizzly bear, how did that catch a kangaroo from Australia, and a penguin from Antartica? Please explain.
With God...ALL THINGS are possible (Such weak humans!).
Again, this belongs in religion. It’s not news/activism.
Bookmarking!!!
And, when he released the kangaroo, how did did that animal migrate to Australia without leaving any bones behind? Or, did the two ‘Roos make it from the Middle East to Australia in one generation?
I mean before the flood, not before the creation of man. :-)
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