RE: Volume of Extra Water From the Flood
June 19, 2012 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2012 at 10:56 am by libalchris.)
(June 19, 2012 at 12:53 am)cratehorus Wrote: God took all the water back
....... yeah it was that easy, pointing out faults in the bible is pointless, they'll either say it was "magic" or that the bible really meant something different
This is what is funny actually. They'll have no problem accepting that God created everything in existence in 6 days, out of nothing magically. They believe that God is omnipotent. This in mind, you'd think that when you present the logical problems of the flood (not enough water, where did it all go, how did you fit that many animals on the ark, etc.) they'd just explain them away with God's omnipotence, but they don't. For some reason they feel like that have to rationalize it. It's almost like, deep down, they know that it's completely insane.
(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".
Of course you also have to realize all the land and mountains decrease the amount of water needed, so it's quite non-rigorous, but it only serves to make a point. Even if you were extremely conservative and cut the number of your calculations in half, you still come up with an insane amount of water.
