Posted on 04/08/2014 2:41:22 PM PDT by OneVike
In yet another confirmation of the Bible’s accuracy, scientists have now confirmed what Scripture refers to as “the fountains of the deep.” In the days of Noah and the Ark, these large pools of water beneath the Earth’s crust burst forth onto the surface providing the massive amounts of water needed for the global flood judgment. What has once been a source of skepticism and mockery for those who doubt the Bible, has now been confirmed by secular scientists, again showing that although written over 3,000 years ago, the Bible’s description of the Earth and its natural properties are indeed accurate.
According to reports:
An international team of scientists led by Graham Pearson, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Arctic Resources at the U of A, has discovered the first-ever sample of a mineral called ringwoodite. Analysis of the mineral shows it contains a significant amount of water — 1.5 per cent of its weight — a finding that confirms scientific theories about vast volumes of water trapped 410 to 660 kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, between the upper and lower mantle.
“This sample really provides extremely strong confirmation that there are local wet spots deep in the Earth in this area,” said Pearson, a professor in the Faculty of Science, whose findings were published March 13 in Nature. “That particular zone in the Earth, the transition zone, might have as much water as all the world’s oceans put together.”
Ringwoodite is a form of the mineral peridot, believed to exist in large quantities under high pressures in the transition zone. Ringwoodite has been found in meteorites but, until now, no terrestrial sample has ever been unearthed because scientists haven’t been able to conduct fieldwork at extreme depths. (source).
The chart above shows where the water beneath the Earth’s crust is located.
The vast oceans of water beneath the Earth’s crust is precisely what the Bible describes in the first book of Genesis. In fact, prior to the flood of Noah’s day, it had never rained. The waters from the fountains of the deep, the water reservoirs beneath the Earth’s crust: provided water:
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. (Genesis 2:5-6).
This was the state of the Earth until the days of the flood judgment. And it would be two-fold: water came from the sky in torrential rain, and from the ground, as The Lord caused the huge oceans of subterranean water to burst forth and shoot onto the surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at Beginning And End ...And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (Genesis 7:10-11).
Confirms Dr. Walt Brown’s hydroplate theory for the flood. Great to see!
True science confirms the Bible. True science and the Bible are friends, not enemies.
The bible says it rained. The movie Noah agrees with you. Credit to the movie?
Read it closely - the fountains of the deep were opened, shooting massive amounts of water into the atmosphere, whence it fell as rain. It had not rained previously, which is why the rainbow had not been seen before.
Actually, both.
Genesis 7:
11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
I think there was some kind of water in the atmosphere, too. Kept the earth “moist” and protected the planet from solar radiation - could account for the long lives of people during the time. Less radiation, less nuclear degradation.
Possibly. I think there was a pretty think atmosphere made up heavily of water vapor. I’ll find the verse, but it did exist before the flood.
I wonder if tha pertains to oil too?
I wonder if tha pertains to oil too?
It has always been my belief, that the heavy rains and flooding, loosened all of the trees and plant life from the soil, such that, when the waters ‘receded’, they collected in the lowest parts of the earth. The subsequent pressure is what produced Petroleum. It is an established fact, that plant material, under pressure, result in OIL !
You don’t know how right you are,
As I type this, freshly produced crude oil is oozing out at the bottom of the deepest portions of the oceans. So oil is being produced daily from the vast amount of pressure at the depths of the sea.
Something like this may have made a difference, as well. It sure explains a lot. In any event, it’s really interesting.
Neal Adams - Science: 01 - Conspiracy: Earth is Growing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ
If God wants a "fountain of the great deep", he will make one. There is no need for there to be an ocean under the crust.
People need to read the source papers before agreeing to stuff like this.
Oil has been found in “ancient” city dumps... time of Christ city dumps, era. Being produced by the yuck being dumped in there, waste, etc, and then over centuries being built on top of.
And, I always felt that the oil post flood came, similar to your descriptions, of the vast plant and animal life lost during the time. And if these under crust water reserves emptied, there was probably a reverse suction that pulled some of that material down.
OneVike: You don’t know how right you are, As I type this, freshly produced crude oil is oozing out at the bottom of the deepest portions of the oceans. So oil is being produced daily from the vast amount of pressure at the depths of the sea.
Well actually, that might not be true.
Well actually, that might not be true.
And, actually, it might BE true...
Amen to that. We can trust that His word is the truth.
Wasn’t it called a water canopy, or possibly just a canopy? I know I’ve heard that term before in connection with the flood account.
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