Why would we need to posit that, apart from the original creation. Must God one act miraculously, versus using natural means He created?
If you do no believe that God is truly "all mighty," why not simply posit that energy created itself, and thus water, or that, like as a God, energy was eternally per-existent, creating an exceedingly vast, systematically ordered universe, exquisitely finely tuned for life with intricate astounding complexity, since such universe logically testifies to design, and requiring a First Cause, (at the least), that of a powerful force or being of supreme intelligence, being behind the existence of energy and organization of matter?
Perhaps there are still natural means to be discovered that GOD used.
Interesting,
Noah’s Flood becomes Very
Plausable with this information. 13th
I respect your position. It is actually the more-preferable explanation.
But these other jokesters here were implying (admittedly, no one came right out and honestly/explicitly stated it; instead, they just hinted at it) that the "discovery" of ringwoodite somehow "bolstered" the Story of the Deluge - as though, in view of an Almighty God, it needed bolstering.
Thus, I was trying to argue on their level / from their initial premises.
I concede that that may have been an unwise decision.
But the mere "discovery" of a mineral hundreds of km below the Earth's surface that, under certain circumstances (e.g.: application of enormous quantities of EXTRA energy), could theoretically yield the water which subsequently manifested as the "fountains of the deep" of the Bible - without addressing all of the necessary intermediate steps ("Where did that necessary EXTRA energy suddenly come from? How did the resultant water then make its way through hundreds of kms of Mantle to reach the Earth's surface? Did that water then later return to the layer of ringwoodite? Etc.") amounts to opening up a "can of worms" that actually creates more problems than it solves.
It's no "skin off my nose," but if someone wants to show up wearing a deerstalker cap, holding an oversized magnifying glass, and smoking a calabash pipe to smugly announce that the "discovery" of this mineral "solves" the riddle of the Story of the Deluge (in doing so, they are already implying that it is a riddle in need of solving), then they had better be prepared to exactly explain the entire chain of physical mechanisms.
It is NOT enough to simply proclaim, "Elementary, my dear Watson! It was the ringwoodite!" and then go home.
Regards,
Did I say Something Wrong?
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