Posted on 06/06/2017 10:17:15 AM PDT by fishtank
Secularists Can Believe Mars Had a Global Flood
Mars has no liquid water today, but water must have covered much of the planet in the past. How? Nobody knows.
Look at the diagram of Mars the way some secular planetary scientists believe it looked in ancient times (Phys.org). It’s almost covered with water. How could that be? There’s no liquid water there today, and Mars lacks the atmosphere that could keep it liquid. It’s also too cold for liquid water most of the time, although some may be locked up as ice in the polar caps.
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Mars elevation map, 2002 MOLA
The paper in Nature Communications sets out some of the possibilities for a Martian ocean in motion: fluctuating shorelines, tsunami deposits, sedimentary layers and deltas. Luo does not speak of any floods. It’s amusing, however, to see planetary scientists routinely refer to a “Noachian epoch” on Mars.
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Mars has no magnetic field. Solar wind blew away the atmosphere and with it the water.
“Mars lacks the atmosphere that could keep it liquid. It’s also too cold for liquid water”
Mars had a much thicker atmosphere and therefore was warmer. Mars lacks a magnetic field therefore the solar wind eventually blew the atmosphere into space.
It would be fascinating to get some cores drilled to see whats down a few hundred feet under the ground there.
It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are.
-Augustine
The belief is that Mars was once like earth, but being smaller its core cooled and solidified faster, shutting off its magnetic field. With no magnetic field to protect against the solar wind, its atmosphere leaked away into space. Liquid water cannot exist without air pressure, so the oceans either evaporated or froze. It is likely that there are still oceans worth of water ice in the regolith, but it’s too cold and the air pressure is too low for liquid water.
Great post. Atheists have more faith in so called science than truth. Did you see Is Genesis History.
>>It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are.
>>-Augustine
The Rational Humanists really love Augustine, don’t they? Only when he serves their needs.
“”Augustine was a self-centered fantasist and an earth-centered ignoramus: he was guiltily convinced that God cared about his trivial theft from some unimportant pear trees, and quite persuaded — by an analogous solipsism — that the sun revolved around the earth. He also fabricated the mad and cruel idea that the souls of unbaptized children were sent to “limbo”. Who can guess the load of misery that this diseased “theory” has placed on millions of Catholic parents down the years, until its shamefaced and only partial revision by the church in our own time? —Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Mars lacks sufficient gravity to hold a sensible atmosphere for long.
It is easy for gas molecules to reach escape velocity, given that Mars IS a small planet.
Climate change.., and if they could find a couple of wrecked SUVs, that could really help explain a lot too.
Saturn’s moon Titan is smaller than our moon but has an atmosphere thicker than earth’s. Venus has an atmosphere 90 times as dense as earth even though the planet is the same size. It’s not about size or gravity as much as other factors. The solar wind is only 1% as strong out by Saturn, for example.
In the case of Mars, global cooling could have only been the result of environmentalists banning fossil fuels and planting trees to consume all the CO2. They just went too damn far.
Remember, we sent a few SUV-size rovers there. So, that's probably what done it.
If there wasn’t water there what did they need all those canals for?
“There is no ground truth to assess the real accuracy of our estimation,” he says. In planetary science, that’s OK these days. If your model requires it, that’s enough reason to believe in it, even if you can’t imagine how water could exist on Mars at all. Someone’s rule of speculating is that if you’re going to tell a whopper, you might as well tell a really big one:”
There is no wind on the Sun
There is no wind on the Sun
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