What's a "fountain of the deep" ??
Sounds like a sexual metaphor at first blush . . . .
Sounds like a sexual metaphor at first blush . . . .
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So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
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What's a window of heaven?
See, either we're talking poetically or we're talking actuality. If we're to do both, we need some metric for distinguishing between the two.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (August 29, 2017 at 12:05 pm)Cyberman Wrote: What's a window of heaven? Desert areas get "scattered thundershowers", isolated storms, and I suppose these could fit that bill.
So nothing to do with Hovind's ice/vapour canopy thing?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
To my mind and in contrast to both the OP and alpha_male, I think figurative language such as "foundations of the deep" and "window of heaven" point to a more metaphorical interpretation of the story. I never regarded the Bible as a science book.
 Quote:Because we're in a thread asking the question, "So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??" So you've missed the point of the thread, no surprise there, which is that the nonsense you fools parrot is fucking impossible. You're only possible reply is "it's magic" and I hope by now you have enough sense to know that no rational person would be impressed by that?  RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 12:44 pm
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(August 29, 2017 at 12:02 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: What's a "fountain of the deep" ?? An enema of the earth? Technically there is likely enough water chemically bonded to mantle rocks inside the earth to flood the surface to a depth greater than the height of mt Everest. The trick is it requires the complete turnover of the earth's radioactively heated mantle to extract that water. If that happened 6,000 years ago, the surface of the earth will still be an ocean of molten magma today, covered by an primarily water vapor atmosphere 10 times as dense than the atmosphere of Venus.
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(August 29, 2017 at 12:38 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: To my mind and in contrast to both the OP and alpha_male, I think figurative language such as "foundations of the deep" and "window of heaven" point to a more metaphorical interpretation of the story. I never regarded the Bible as a science book. Metaphors still have to refer to some object or action. Was the Flood a real event or not?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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