[MonroeDNA]

It's a great fantasy.

[Theo]

It's kind of cool to take Genesis literally. Consider what the earth looked like according to Scripture....

There was a layer of water above the earth, just kind of floating up there. Apparently there wasn't any pollution in the atmosphere on which the water could condense and form rain (there's no mention of rain in Scripture prior to the flood)....

People lived hundreds of years during that time, typically 500, 600, 700 years. Then something from "the deeps" shot up (a volcano, maybe?) and then that layer of water collapsed onto the earth in a great "rain." Polution from the volcano reached the atmosphere, providing something on which the water up there might condense, and fall. Interesting.

Also interesting to note that people after the flood -- immediately after it -- lived a lot shorter, to maybe 120 or less years. Makes you wonder if that water layer protected people from bad sun rays?

In any case, there's a lot of fascinating scientific consistencies in that part of Scripture.