Posted on 01/28/2014 12:16:28 PM PST by Theoria
great article...though the Bible beat the scientists to the punch with Noah.
Genesis 7:11 - “the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened”
Gensis 8:2 - “The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped”
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The question against a world wide flood is “where did all the water come from and where did it go?”:
“the Japan subduction zone alone could transport the equivalent of up to three and a half times the water of all the Earths oceans to its mantle.”
Many have puzzled over that, since the volume of water in the oceans wouldn't seem to be sufficient to cover earth's present mountain ranges. But if they volume of water within earth and under the oceans is actually 3 or 4 times greater than the water on the surface, and if the mountains originally were not so high, but were pushed higher by tectonic forces---
I don't know.
Aside from the biblical references, the surprising thing about this study is its failure to tie this to global warming. I am used to every study being tied to global warming in some fashion.
A period of global glaciation (ice ball earth) some 650 + mya preceded the Cambrian explosion of multicellular life. That was a lot of water, it had to go somewhere. However, mineral formation and volcanic activity over subduction zones and ridges take up a lot of water. For instance, the Great African Rift, has, in addition to numerous active volcanos, an immense magma chamber with 500 cubic miles of magma. Elsewhere, we are just beginning to discover things about tectonic plate push and pull and what immediately underlies the crust.
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Thank you for referencing those Genesis verses.
Hot salt water has been extracted from beneath mountain ranges that are more or less between the trench that winds through the middle of each of the oceans.
I was thinking the same exact verses. Interesting as I’m going through a study guide specifically on Genesis, as well as Isaac Asimov’s book on the Old Testament.
That is not what Chapters 6, 7, and 8 had to say about the Flood. The Biblical account is consistent with the occurrence of a great regional flooding and tidal wave. A number of such great catastrophic events are known to have taken place in that part of the world in prehistoric and early historic times. In particular there were great floodings of the Mediterranean Basin, the Black Sea basin, and the Persian Gulf upwards through the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys, hills, and mountains.
Let’s see now - huge volumes of salt water being delivered to the earth’s mantle on tectonic conveyor belts - thus, H2O in contact with carbonaceous rock in extreme pressure and temperature conditions - endless inorganic methane, anyone? Nah, that’s loony stuff, that would mean that natural gas and crude oil were inexhaustable - and the Goron has already told us we’re running out of oil. Yawn
Unfortunately, you left off the most important part of the finding.
Over the age of the earththe Japan subduction zone alone could transport the equivalent of up to three and a half times the water of all the Earths oceans to its mantle.
"Over the age of the earth" is vastly different than "over a few months time" which is the length of the flood story in Noah's time.
Never forget that the global warming adherents think that an increase of 1" in sea level over a century is much too much for the earth.
So net water is being transported deep into the lower mantle sections over time.
How is it being replaced ?
Or perhaps more appropriately, when ?
the following (Gen 7:11) describes a very different environment than the one they are currently observing :
on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth,
Are we going back to a hollow earth again ?
Genesis 7:11...the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
In other words, the sources of the seawaters all of a sudden broke out and rose up as the sky poured forth torrents of rain.
It would have looked even worse for the people living in what is now the basin of the Black Sea, because the saltwaters of the Mediterranean Sea broke through the mountain passes above their heads at the Dardenelles Strait and poured down upon them as if the windows of heaven had been suddenly opened and the former lake flooded above everything they knew as their homes, hills, and mountains. The flooding would have naturally swept Noah’s Ark northeastwards to the mountains in the kingdom of Ararat.
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