RE: Tourettes
December 15, 2008 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2008 at 3:20 pm by Rob.)
Don't say water vapour. You've changed the goal posts. Next you'll be telling us it wasnt really water but O3 which as a molecule is similar to H2O except is has two oxygen atoms instead of hydrogen atoms and is in a lovely ring formation. Okay, the only similarity is has with water is one oxygen molecule. Never the less this gas has the quality you're looking for in that it protects the earth from harmful gasses radiation (do'h). In fact, that would make a very interesting passige in the bible: Behold thy layer of Ozone, beith made of blue stuff and protecteth you from thine wicked ultra-violet rays.
The height of mount evarist is a couple of hundred meters off 9 Kilometres tall. Since the flood covered all parts of the land that means it must have covered evarist, by multiplying the height of evarist by the total surface area of the earth we can establish the volume of water the canopy would be made of.
8.848 KM * 510,065,600 KM = 4,513,060,430,000 cubic meters
A cubic metre of water weighs one metric ton meaning that if this were to be correct the canopy would have to consist of over four and a half billion tons of water sitting atop the atmosphere.
The oceans only contain 1,300,000,000 tons of water. Assuming that prior to the flood the oceans were dry and the the water provided by the flood filled the space there's still a hell of a lot of water there going unaccounted for. Where did it go after the flood? Water doesn't magically disappear.
Now back to what the canopy was made of for a moment. A 9Km thick layer of water above the planet would instantly fall to earth and kill anything under it the moment it popped into existence. Water vapour is basically water with air in the middle so to have the same amount of water there it'd need to be much taller than nine kilometres and would probably drift off into space as soon as it was popped into existence. Hypothetically the most probable structure it would take would be an elongated hollow spheroid of ice. However, this presents its own problems including uneven melting at the equator compared to the poles and shattering when faced with the vicious winds experienced in the upper atmosphere.
Then there's the problem of having a layer of water that thick up there in the first place. If a layer that thick of water in whatever state were to exist above the planet It would block all radiation including the light.
All in all, a canopy of water over the earth is just a good way to ensure the doom of everything under it and no boat no matter how big could possibly save anything from it. Now I'm sorry the numbers don't agree with your hypothesis. its a very poetic idea that I'm sure would be spectacular to look at if it was thin enough to let light in. I'm sure such a thing would be very pretty. However, you've just got to accept the fact that this just not possible and move on.
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EDIT2: Corrected some spellings.
The height of mount evarist is a couple of hundred meters off 9 Kilometres tall. Since the flood covered all parts of the land that means it must have covered evarist, by multiplying the height of evarist by the total surface area of the earth we can establish the volume of water the canopy would be made of.
8.848 KM * 510,065,600 KM = 4,513,060,430,000 cubic meters
A cubic metre of water weighs one metric ton meaning that if this were to be correct the canopy would have to consist of over four and a half billion tons of water sitting atop the atmosphere.
The oceans only contain 1,300,000,000 tons of water. Assuming that prior to the flood the oceans were dry and the the water provided by the flood filled the space there's still a hell of a lot of water there going unaccounted for. Where did it go after the flood? Water doesn't magically disappear.
Now back to what the canopy was made of for a moment. A 9Km thick layer of water above the planet would instantly fall to earth and kill anything under it the moment it popped into existence. Water vapour is basically water with air in the middle so to have the same amount of water there it'd need to be much taller than nine kilometres and would probably drift off into space as soon as it was popped into existence. Hypothetically the most probable structure it would take would be an elongated hollow spheroid of ice. However, this presents its own problems including uneven melting at the equator compared to the poles and shattering when faced with the vicious winds experienced in the upper atmosphere.
Then there's the problem of having a layer of water that thick up there in the first place. If a layer that thick of water in whatever state were to exist above the planet It would block all radiation including the light.
All in all, a canopy of water over the earth is just a good way to ensure the doom of everything under it and no boat no matter how big could possibly save anything from it. Now I'm sorry the numbers don't agree with your hypothesis. its a very poetic idea that I'm sure would be spectacular to look at if it was thin enough to let light in. I'm sure such a thing would be very pretty. However, you've just got to accept the fact that this just not possible and move on.
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(December 15, 2008 at 12:02 pm)Baird Wrote: You know what I find so funny about this forum?To be fair I did ask how creationists could account for such occurrences and its disappointing to see that the original genesis story has to become so warped to account for it.
The fact that a topic about Tourettes, or something totally different than religion always ends up in a discussion about religion...
EDIT2: Corrected some spellings.
Hoi Zaeme.
