I think we all see this mental image as a heck of a lot of water. So I decided to crunch some numbers to get a better idea of how much water we're talking. I worked out the volume that it would have occupied (I assumed from water level to let's say the top of Mt. Everest) and then divided that by the volume of water at sea level (assuming that all of it is below sea level) to get a percentage.
V(Flood water) = 7.06 x 10^5 km^3
V(Ocean water) = 1.338 x 10^9 km^3
The percentage of Flood water from pre-existing water comes to 0.05%
I was pretty surprised by that. It's almost like letting a drop fall into a glass full of water. It would go unnoticed. But of course we're talking a volume occupying a rather crucial space, which is the space where we all live in. If the Flood water was still around we would be underwater at a depth of 8.8km so of course there's still the question of where all that water went. Needless to say, it most likely didn't happen but was rather an over-exaggeration of local natural disasters.
V(Flood water) = 7.06 x 10^5 km^3
V(Ocean water) = 1.338 x 10^9 km^3
The percentage of Flood water from pre-existing water comes to 0.05%
I was pretty surprised by that. It's almost like letting a drop fall into a glass full of water. It would go unnoticed. But of course we're talking a volume occupying a rather crucial space, which is the space where we all live in. If the Flood water was still around we would be underwater at a depth of 8.8km so of course there's still the question of where all that water went. Needless to say, it most likely didn't happen but was rather an over-exaggeration of local natural disasters.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
