My aim is at the author for stating [...]
Thank you for stating this!
This is a common problem here at FR. When attacking the article or the author of the article, many FReepers erroneously reply to someone in the thread who had made a (relatively) innocuous comment. That "someone" then rightly feels attacked. Please avoid doing this and/or make it clear to whom you are actually addressing your complaints!
[...] more water is under the surface of the planet than there is on the surface!! That statement alone should have someone of your intellect going after them instead of me!! It's physically impossible!
First of all, the main article cleverly refrains from clearly stating its true objective. Rather, it merely notes the "discovery" of ringwoodite and then sits back and waits for "Bible apologists" (I am intentionally using a provocative expression here; it refers to people who think that the miraculous events mentioned in the Bible need subsequent scientific explanation, thus implying that the Bible is somehow "defective" until such explanations are proffered) to show up and crow, "Hallelujah! The Bible isn't as ridiculous and unbelievable after all!"
And that is namely the pernicious mindset which such articles foster!
That is why I am "breaking a lance" against this article!
But, at the same time, I didn't want to become mired in a long, tedious discussion - on the article's own turf! - about the quantity of water, etc. That would have been a distraction and a diversion - and, worse, it would have played into the hands of the aforementioned pernicious mindset!
[...] someone of your intellect [...]
It probably wasn't your intention, but I'll take a compliment whenever I can get one! (smiley icon)
Regards,
I may walk back my stance on this issue just a smidgen... If the middle mantle is indeed many 10s of miles thick, then maybe!! Maybe! However, and I can't recall the name of the mineral that holds water and transforms into this ringwoodite . But the two articles I read about this deep water looking into this, BOTH say something that irritates(pisses me off) about today's science information outlets...
Both sources state that this deep water “helps form magma”!! Now short of the earth splitting the H2O and burning it so hot that it melt rock, or maintains the molten rock, how the hell is this even possible. Deep water helps form magma?? Really?? Can anyone explain this to me in layman’s terms!!??