Posted on 03/31/2023 11:22:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
One of the core arguments against the historicity of the Bible and the flood account in Genesis by scientists has been that a global flood is impossible because there simply is not enough water on earth to flood the entire thing.
This despite the fact that there is evidence accepted from secular scientists that there was clearly a global cataclysm at some point in earth's recent history.
But where did the water come from?
In Genesis chapter 7, this is what the Bible says:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
All the fountains of the great deep burst forth.
What could that be referring to?
Well, here's a story for ya:
It's going viral because of none other than Joe Rogan, who couldn't sleep last night after discovering this:
🤣 🤣 🤣
I have to point out that this discovery was made in 2014, but the article is from this week because, well, most of you didn't know this.
That's why you're reading this, right? Sadly, these things don't usually make it outside certain circles because they usually only appeal to ultranerds or theology geeks (usually one and the same).
But here's the deets: A massive ocean, with more water than the entire surface of the earth, has been found deep inside the earth's crust close to the core.
AKA, the fountains of the deep.
There's a layer of earth called "ringwoodite" that has this type of rock that is holding tons of H20, but it's not in a solid, liquid, or gas form. It's some 4th molecular form trapped in the rock.
"The ringwoodite is like a sponge, soaking up water, there is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water," said geophysicist Steve Jacobsen, who was part of the monumental discovery.
"This mineral can contain a lot of water under conditions of the deep mantle."
The water exists.
Don't let them tell you there's not enough water for a global flood.
It's important to note that Creationist scientists have been arguing this for decades. Consider this 2001 article from the Institute for Creation Research, or this one from 2018.
Consider the work of Dr. Walt Brown, an MIT grad with a PhD in mechanical engineering, who explained the decades ago that highly pressurized water from the earth's crust could have shot up into the atmosphere before falling in frozen sheets – and that this frozen deluge would explain why so many prehistoric animals like mammoths were frozen instantly with green grass in their stomachs (grass takes mere seconds to turn brown in the acid of an elephant's stomach).
Even the climate-change apocalypse movie "Day After Tomorrow" acknowledged this reality.
Here's more about the fountains of the deep in Genesis 8:
The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained
The Biblical flood account includes water from the sky and water buried deep beneath the ground.
The Bible documents that the water came from the fountains of the deep, and that's exactly what this discovery looks like.
Research has found that ringwoodite can contain up to 1.5 percent water.
If the ringwoodite under the surface has just 1 percent water in its molecular build-up, it would mean that it holds three times more water than all of the oceans on the Earth's surface.
THREE TIMES more water than the oceans! Earth is already 70% covered in water, now multiply that by at least three times.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
Maybe don't count those kooky Christians out quite yet!
“whats a cubit?”
Approximately 18 inches...................
It changes the biblical narrative to basically Gaia worship. The reason for the flood was not debauchery and sin, but exploitation of the earth. Then there are these weird beings that protect the ark. It clearly is meant as a dig at Judeo-Christian belief in the flood.
tap that water too much and the water table goes down.
that’s happening all over the world
tap that water too much and the water table goes down.
that’s happening all over the world
And if the waters were to burst forth, what would replace its volume in the mantle?
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Nothing. In that case, with the sudden creation of voids in the Earth’s mantle rock, the pressure in the interior would burst forth and likely create a molten Earth - all life would be extinguished, of course.
Where’s the image of the guy with a bloody sole from?
Noah, starring Russell Crowe.................
“And if the waters were to burst forth, what would replace its volume in the mantle?”
I believe the continental plates shifted cataclysmicly sliding and riding onto one another thus creating the mountains we have today. Pretty much the same thing the secularist believe but they believe in millions and billions of years... I believe it was very rapid. The land would have subsided or sunk and the some water would have stayed in top forming the oceans.
Thanks. Rave reviews up thread...
Rotten Tomatoes 75%....I’ve never seen it...................
The problem with Ken Ham is that he spends all his time debating and speaking, and very little time researching. So he does not have the pedigreed authority that a researcher like Stephen Myers would have.
Thanks.
BFL
I say we build a tall tower so the flood waters won’t get us.
However, I think a careful reading of the text indicates the author did not actually think that the flood covered the entire globe.
For example, note the following verses from Genesis 8:
5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
... 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth....
Seems a careful reading forces one to take "over all the surface of the earth" to at least not include the mountain tops in verse 5.
As I understand it the same Hebrew phrase for the whole surface of the Earth is used elsewhere in the Noah story for anything translated like the surface of the whole Earth. So I have to take it as an idiom for something like "pretty much everywhere". Certainly Noah would not have been able to sail the entire globe and verify Australia and Antarctica etc were covered.
I’m 5 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and less than a half mile from the Choctawhatchee Bay......................
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Dont’ mix that up with the Tallahatchie Bridge or the Chappaquiddick bridge
Used to live near a Tallahatchie Bridge!................
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