(March 24, 2015 at 8:53 am)Nope Wrote: Brakeman, I was always taught that the water came from a mixture of rain and springs deep in the earth.The best explanations come from guys like Hovind, who like to hypothesize about comets crashing to earth with enough ice that converting it to water would flood the planet, unaware that a comet that size would release enough energy to boil most (if not all) of the water on the planet.
Sites like RationalWiki, Talk Origins and Skeptic Report cover the many issues with the flood story. The Talk Origins site covers the issue extensively and does the math and the science, with a full slate of references and links. It shows how the flood story cannot stand on its own and requires a very heavy dose of supernatural intervention to, well... keep it afloat.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
