(June 19, 2012 at 10:29 am)Chuck Wrote: The thickness of flood water still is small compare to the diameter of the globe, so the volume of water can be approximated as a thin flat shell sheet equal to the surface area of earth (approximately 4X10^8 square Km) times thickness (approx 9 km), resulting in about 4X10^9 cubic km.
To summarize, the relationship between the amount of water on earth and the amount of water involved in Noah's flood is such that "you can't get there from here".
Good way of working it out.
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