If the earth was formed 4.54 billion years ago, and the moon formed 4.1 billion years ago, it sure seems 0.1 to 1.0 billion years would be a very short time to form sufficient ice on a the planet that had just been shattered by an impact creating the moon, and then melt the same ice to form a water world 30,000 feet deep or more without losing it to space. Not understanding the cycle being proposed.
1 posted on
03/17/2021 9:56:26 PM PDT by
blueplum
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There is at least as much water trapped within rocks in the mantle about 400 miles down as there is in all the surface oceans. If the mantle was hotter 3 billion years ago, it would have held less.
To: blueplum
What? Climate changes? Who knew?
5 posted on
03/17/2021 10:09:40 PM PDT by
Veto!
(Political Correctness Offends Me)
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But I have repeatedly been assured there is not enough water on the earth to cover it.
Because.... Science!
Now Science says there was.
Maybe science is a process we have to try to figure things out rather then being a static item?
7 posted on
03/17/2021 10:17:00 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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Not news...
...the scientists at Harvard and the author of the article merely need to read Genesis 1:1-9. This is all covered there.
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10 posted on
03/17/2021 10:27:50 PM PDT by
Fungi
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DANG, there goes that really expensive Top of the World Villa I bought.
12 posted on
03/17/2021 10:38:53 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
(The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
To: blueplum
With all this water, why do I have to buy a toilet that won’t flush last night’s dinner?
14 posted on
03/17/2021 11:04:52 PM PDT by
GaryCrow
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Apparently, Adam and Eve had too large a carbon footprint, because we all know that’s the only way this could happen.
19 posted on
03/18/2021 12:23:28 AM PDT by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: blueplum
So where did the water all go?
20 posted on
03/18/2021 12:25:10 AM PDT by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: blueplum
[...] it sure seems 0.1 to 1.0 billion years would be a very short time to form sufficient ice [...]Are you able to perform even only a "back-of-an-envelope" calculation to support your "feeling?"
Regards,
23 posted on
03/18/2021 1:21:51 AM PDT by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: blueplum
A study of the formation of zircons some years back came to the conclusion that the earth of 4 billion years ago was not much different than we see today. I lost the link so you would have to search for it.
24 posted on
03/18/2021 4:30:51 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: blueplum
The science I have read says there is always the same amount of water on/in the earth as there ever was...in one form or another.
27 posted on
03/18/2021 8:34:03 AM PDT by
oldtech
To: blueplum
I say BS!! Too many of rock formations known as mountains show ZERO signs of water level erosion... sounds like another piss ant trying to pass opinion as facts.
28 posted on
03/18/2021 8:39:32 AM PDT by
sit-rep
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To: blueplum
So a lot of that water is now deep within the earth.
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