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To: count-your-change

All of the water in the atmosphere would equal about 1 inch (2.54 cm) of all of the world’s oceans’ depth.

The Earth’s atmosphere does not contain a large amount of water. Its estimated volume of water is about 3,100 cubic miles (12,900 cubic kilometers), which is roughly just 0.001% of all of the water on Earth. In fact, if all of the water in the atmosphere was released at one time, it would equal only about 1 inch (2.54 cm) of the world’s oceans’ depth. The atmosphere’s function with water is more transportation rather than storage. As water evaporates, it converts to vapor, which then moves into the atmosphere. Once there, the vapor condenses into clouds, which then release the water as precipitation to get back to the Earth’s surface.


6 posted on 07/14/2013 9:28:36 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

“All of the water in the atmosphere would equal about 1 inch (2.54 cm) of all of the world’s oceans’ depth.”

You know this to be the case throughout earth’s history? If so, how?


8 posted on 07/14/2013 9:37:01 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
All of the water in the atmosphere would equal about 1 inch (2.54 cm) of all of the world’s oceans’ depth.

Except that not all the waters of the flood came from the atmosphere

Gen 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

14 posted on 07/14/2013 12:12:09 PM PDT by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
A] "The Earth’s atmosphere 'does not' contain a large amount of water......"

B] "Does not" is the same as "did not"..... c] THEREFORE the earth did not contain large volumes of water at any time in the past.

16 posted on 07/14/2013 12:36:46 PM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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