Well the flaw in your logic is the presumption that this condition will remain at it's current point of balance. We know the earth occasionally releases heat in the form of eruptions, so there may come an occasion in which more heat drives that water out of the rocks under pressure.
It would most likely come out in the oceans (3/4ths of the Earth's surface) and rapidly cool back to liquid water.
So EXTRA heat would have to have been supplied or otherwise introduced.
Doesn't have to be heat. It could be a relaxation of pressure.
So let me ask you this. What happens when you have trillions of tons of ice covering much of the surface of the planet, and that ice suddenly ("suddenly" on a geological time scale) melts and relieves all that pressure beneath it?
Would it not have the same effect (Charles' Law) as an increase in heat?
Again, my basic point: I don't understand why you folks prefer that explanation ("God miraculously introduced more heat, ex nihilo, thus causing the ringwoodite to release water") more comforting, more plausible, or more logical than a SIMPLER explanation like: "God miraculously introduced more water, ex nihilo."
Well I can't speak for others, but I enjoy messing with atheists/agnostics. It is just another one of life's little pleasures for me. :)
I am thinking I might enjoy discussing the plagues of Egypt with you.
You are arrogantly placing me in that camp - merely because I favor the more-elegant solution that God simply created the needed water ex nihilo?
What presumption!
I don't intend to argue Geophysics with you (it was never my wish to argue Geophysics, in depth, with anyone here - rather, I am of the position that to venture into that territory at all in attempting to "explain" Biblical stories is unnecessary and fosters a wrong mindset).
The basic "ploy" of the main article (and its ilk) is to suggest to its readership that they are in any way even remotely qualified to absorb this info (about, e.g., ringwoodite) and properly integrate it into their understanding of the Biblical narrative.
It is, after all, quite flattering for some person who flunked 8th-grade "Earth Science" to gloss over this article and then smugly announce, "Hah! I always knew the Bible was right! And this proves it!"
I can just see that person then, in later conversation with skeptics, suddenly pulling out this factoid about ringwoodite as though its mere mention "won the day" for them. Disgusting!
(Please NOTE that I am not claiming that you, personally, were such a person, DiogenesLamp.)
Regards,