RE: Abiogenesis is impossible
August 4, 2014 at 4:48 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 5:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 2, 2014 at 11:15 pm)snowtracks Wrote: low-lying plain of the mesopotamian region & the Persian gulf wouldn't require more than 200 or 300 ft water depth for noah not to be able to see hills or mtns due to the earth's curvature. when noah did see land, he released the dove which returned with an olive tree leaf. this was done in the context of "the water still on the face of the whole earth" (perspective of ancient people).Now work out the total square mileage, then the cubic feet for depth. Then you'll know the sheer weight of the water, for example, on those plains (62.4lbs per cubic foot- upper limit of 9 tons of water per square foot, 130psi, that's equivalent to a steam boiler on top of every inch of earth, roughly 9x atmospheric pressure at sea level....think about it). That alone ought to make you pause. You'll have to circumscribe an area with enough topography to hold it all in, of course (not that it would, water flows uphill through the soil, amusingly) - or....and this would get hilarious real fast, you'd have to up the rate of downpour/upswell(however you think the water got there) to account for escape and runoff. Unless what you're talking about here is a magical pillar of water holding a magical boat aloft only to the limits of an old mans sightline - bound by nothing....but more magic - on it's edge. Which would be even more fanciful than your mythical nor'easter- which, even in the diminutive form you've offered here, would have the power to buckle the earth beneath it like a twig and leave a scar that could be seen from space.
Right off the bat I can tell you that the depth you suggested would put the deluge at 3.5 inches of rain per hour for 960 hours -over the entire area (and that's if the rain fell into a waterproof tub, mind you). Good luck keeping a barge floating in that shit. The best part, is that you were actually trying to shoot for the minimum here, to make it "more realistic" - and this is as close as you could get it eh? I guess it's the mountains of undeclared miracles that will eventually sink the ark, rather than any mound of dirt.
No deluge Tracks. None, ever, anywhere.
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