[Scythian]

Well, you understood why I was asking, good job. The bible states:

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Which to me indicates that water at least in part, came from under the earth's mantle. I saw a pretty good video on this once showing how the mid-atlantic ridge and all of these underwater mountain ranges all run north south as if the earths plates split and shifted allowing this water to burst forth. I'm not doing a good job of explaining this actually I know, and it probably sounds silly to the unbeliever.

The root of my question was however, and it hasn't been answered, "How much water can the atmosphere account for?.

Also, I believe scripture conveys that it had never rained on Earth until the flood of Noah.

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=rain&x=11&y=15

[PBinTX]

"How much water can the atmosphere account for?

The answer from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_vapor

"Measurements of vapor concentration are expressed as specific humidity or percent relative humidity. The annual mean global concentration of water vapor would yield about 25 mm of liquid water over the entire surface of the Earth if it were to instantly condense."

So, all the water in the atmosphere makes up about 1 inch of water. Some flood! Now, you suggest that the rest of the water came from under the earth's mantle. Under the mid-ocean ridge is molten rock, not oceans of water. Vast amounts of water could not burst forth from the mid-ocean ridges. To suggest otherwise is idiocy.

[grey_whiskers]

Also, I believe scripture conveys that it had never rained on Earth until the flood of Noah.

Which is rather curious, when you recall that rainbows were first mentioned in conjunction with the flood. It is not as though the Genesis account said it had always rained, and then magically rainbows only appeared *after* the flood.

Rain and rainbows appear at the same time.

Also Google Airy functions. :-)

Cheers!