Study: Deep beneath the earth, more water than in all the oceans combined

Washington Post ^ | 6/16/15 | Terrence McCoy

[LibWhacker]

By June 16, 2014 (NASA) (Source: NASA)

In the remote and forested terrain of Juina in western Brazil, an ugly rock with an uglier name surfaced months ago inside a diamond mine. It was a tiny green crystal, all scars and bumps. It “literally look[ed] like [it had] been to hell and back,” one scientist said in March. But despite the provenance, the ringwoodite stone wasn’t scorched — it was, in fact, sopping wet.

Providing an unparalleled glimpse into the our planet’s innards, the stone rode a violent volcanic eruption to the surface from 325 miles inside the Earth’s mantle. “The eruption … is analogous to dropping a Mentos mint into a bottle of soda,” Graham Pearson, a geochemist at the University of Alberta, told LiveScience. “It’s a very energetic, gas-charged reaction that blasts its way to the Earth’s surface.”

It was one of the first times anyone had seen the sponge-like ringwoodite in anything but a meteorite or a laboratory. Formed only in conditions of extreme pressure, it is composed of 1.5 percent water and appeared to confirm that the Earth’s insides are very, very wet. “It translates into a very, very large mass of water, approaching the sort of mass of water that’s present in all the world’s ocean,” Pearson said.

[KittenClaws]

I know some Bible-believing Christians who have been saying for years that this is what happened to the waters of the Flood. The Flood simply soaked into the earth.

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I think it was always there:

Genisis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

[Red Badger]

[x1stcav]

Gonna need fracking to get it!.........

Then it will truly be the end of mankind as we know it.

[Red Badger]

The deepest part of the deepest ocean is only 6.8 miles down. The Earth has a radius of 3,959 miles. There’s a lot of space down there...........

[Bruce Kurtz]

Same as it ever was...
Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean

[Red Badger]

Then it will truly be the end of liberalism as we know it. ..................

[Army Air Corps]

Does Gov. Moonbeam know about this?

[21twelve]

It wasn’t until the Flood that the Earth had rain according to the Bible. Plants and stuff were watered by a “mist” that rose up from the earth. Although I suppose there are several interpretations of that wording.

[KittenClaws]

It wasn’t until the Flood that the Earth had rain according to the Bible. Plants and stuff were watered by a “mist” that rose up from the earth. Although I suppose there are several interpretations of that wording.
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I thought I had read that in Genesis, but I could not find the passage. A search under “mist” and “garden” was not helpful. Thanks for letting me know my mind wasn't playing tricks on me. :)

[beethovenfan]

..”and THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP WERE BROKEN UP.” Genesis 7:11. Much if not most of the waters in Noah’s flood came from UNDER the earth.

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[Theoria]

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• Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth
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[unlearner]

This cannot be true because Miley Cyrus says Noah is a myth like Santa Claus.

[ImNotLying]

God keeps on providing a trickle of proof that the Bible is the truth and that indeed He is our Creator. For most of us Christian belivers, our faith has never wavered. The time is coming soon when we all will be called before God for Judgment. Be ready or it’s gonna be a hot time in your future. Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6

[Dawn53Fl]

Me too. When I saw the headline, I immediate thought, “fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.” Gen 7:11 Water was coming from both directions...down from the sky, and up from the deep.

[colorado tanker]

Some sorta list ping.

[FateAmenableToChange]

The no rain until Noah argument is an argument from silence. Gen 2:5-6 is the passage you’re looking for. “The hebrew word “’ed” was traditionally translated ‘mist’ because of its use in Job 36:27. However, an Akkadian cognate edu in Babylonian texts refers to subterranean springs or waterways. Such a spring would fit the description in this context since this water ‘goes up’ and waters the ground. (NET Bible, Full Notes, Gen. 2:6.

Note, however, that this is before the Fall. In Gen 2:5, the passage implicitly connects rain with cultivation — “for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.”

After the Fall, the curse required man to toil, and noted that the ground would produce thorns and thistles, and food could only be gained by the sweat of the brow. It is possible to say that since this passage doesn’t connect rain with cultivation, that implies that there was no rain. But that is a strained reading since nothing in the passage would lend itself to requiring a parallel with Gen 2:5-6. It’s God’s curse of man and the ground.

Note, however, that nothing is said in the Flood account about rain being unusual at the time of the Flood. Given that creation is radically different before and after the fall, and that there is no mention of rain being a radical difference pre-Flood and post-Flood, nothing besides silence supports the contention that it never rained before the Flood. To claim that the Bible says there was no rain before the Flood is a claim that is not supported by the text.

[BenLurkin]

Found the ocean on the inner crust...

[21twelve]

Thanks for those thoughts and evidence. It is not an earth-shattering (!) theological concept for me - just interesting.

How about the idea of a rainbow in the sky post flood? Does that mean there were no rainbows before (indicating no rain), or does it just mean that rainbows (that had been around for a long time) now were given the symbol of being God’s promise.

Which of course now rainbows been corrupted by the gay movement.

[ForAmerica]

To me, this is a confirmation of the Biblical flood. It also could be part of the reason why the large plates on the earth keep moving around.<\i>

I was thinking the same thing.