(October 16, 2015 at 6:48 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: You forgot the most obvious one: If it only rained for 40 days and 40 nights, as the story claims, it would have taken rainfall greater than that of a firehose, on every square inch of earth, for the entire time. I'll demonstrate...
40 days and nights (or 40 24-hour periods) is a total of 960 hours of rainfall.
Mt. Everest is 29,029 feet tall, or 348,348 inches.
348,348 in / 960 hrs = 363 inches of rain per hour (or, if you prefer, 6 inches of rain per minute), everywhere on earth.
By comparison, the greatest super-storm ever recorded, Super Typhoon Haiyan, rained at an astonishingly-high 1.9 and 2.3 inches per hour, according to NASA's radar satellites, which tracked it.
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-nasa-typhoo...nfall.html
The world record for a one-hour rainfall is 12" in a single hour, set in 1947 (in Holt, just northeast of Kansas City, Missouri).
http://wmo.asu.edu/world-greatest-sixty-...r-rainfall
Even if you buy the Kent Hovind explanation which says the mountains were "raised up" during the flood from lower original heights, we know Mt. Ararat was at least covered, since that's where the Ark legend says it came to rest as the waters receded.
Mt. Ararat is 16,854 feet tall (202,248 inches). The same math gives us almost 211 inches of rain per hour, or roughly 17 1/2 times stronger than the maximum rainfall ever recorded, and 92 times stronger than the maximum rainfall recorded for Super Typhoon Haiyan (a sustained storm).
Yeah that used to all be part of my dialogue, I still have that somewhere in my files
You, not a mythical god, are the author of your book of life, make it one worth reading..and living.
