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.
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?
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.
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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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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.
Again, this belongs in religion. It’s not news/activism.
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my favorite hypothesis is that most of the water was subterranean prior to the great flood. Perhaps water was available from wells and springs but not rain. Then something happened to release this water.
This would explain the rainbow 1st occurrence as well.
The better question is... Where did all the water come from?
There were actually 2 sources:
Prior to the flood, an atmospheric layer of water existed above the breathable air on the surface, and is referred to in the bible as the “firmament”. This layer of water provided extra protection to the earth from the sun, and resulted in much higher levels of oxygen at that time. It also explains why dinosaurs thrived then despite their enormous size... Larger dinosaurs simply could not cope with the lower levels of oxygen after the firmament failed and fell to earth, so if the flood failed to kill them, the lack of oxygen rich air did. (but it didn’t kill all of them... only the largest ones)
The bible also speaks of vast oceans below the surface of the earth which were opened at the same time the firmament fell. The best theory and explanation I’ve heard of what happened was that a massive asteroid bombardment of the earth took place (multiple large hits) which not only disrupted the firmament, but poked holes in the earth’s crust, releasing the waters from underneath.... The passage of Nibiru (planet x) is offered as one possible source of the asteroids.
Over time, water pressure on the surface squeezed this water back under the surface until a new equilibrium was reached where the oceans above the surface were much larger than before.
My point is this... the bible speaks of VAST bodies of water below the surface which DWARFS the amount of water present in the oceans we see on the surface. We are seeing geological evidence of this today.
This bit about land getting pushed up doesn’t hold water for me.
It just one of those Be Good or something Bad is going to happen stories , D’oh
Psalm 90:2 tells us about God’s eternality: “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” Since we humans measure everything in time, it is very hard for us to conceive of something that had no beginning and has always been, and which will continue forever. However, the Bible does not try to prove God’s existence or His eternality, but simply begins with the statement “In the beginning God…” (Genesis 1:1), indicating that at the beginning of recorded time, God was already in existence. From duration stretching backward without limit to duration stretching forward without limit, from eternal ages to eternal ages, God was and is forever. What is 10 billion or a trillion years to God?
The truth of God is revealed not only in the Bible but also in the nature of his creation. As any good father would expect and encourage his children to learn from what they experience and discover scientific advance are also revelations of the nature of God. I wish creationist would quit trying to reduce God to a petty child demigod playing with toys in a 6000 year-year old sandbox. Using our God-given intellect and senses to study the earth and the basic nature are part of God's plan who, as our father, wishes us to grow and learn, as an good father would want.
I imagine that if man ever does voyage to the “end” of the universe we will find the endless eternal majesty of God. Also, Satan did not pepper the world with fossils to deceive us. His power is limited to using lies to deceive us into evil where we harm ourselves and others. He cannot change the nature and fabric of God's creation or diminish it.
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Most of us and virtually “scientists” have a barrier to understanding the whole of the creation. That barrier is a paradigm that insists what we see is what it was, of course, excepting that” long ago and far away ( 4.5 billion years give or a billienium) dust or what ever began coalescing after nothing went bang”.
The account found in the book of Genesis ( Beginnings) is quite radical when we peel back the onion. Here is a link to a theological description of the 6 days of creation. It happens to be from an Orthodox source, but truth is truth!
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/99285.htm
I recommend you read through each section several times, referring to your Bible and a good Hebrew lexicon as a help. The Amplified translation is a great help too.
Blessings!
My thinking is that there was no flood aka the Bible.
IMO, either something collided with Earth, tearing out a large chunk of what is now the Pacific and/or the axis of the Earth shifted. The oceans moved to its new base, drowning nearly everybody in the process (SOMEBODY had to be left to tell the tale, figuring it had to be a Flood) and then settled into its current location.
clockwise north of the equator.
counter clockwise south of the equator.
straight down at the equator.
You really can’t apply sciences like geology or mineralogy or biology to matters of faith like Noah’s ark. You wind up with more questions than you answer.
