Genesis 7:19 speaks of Water trapped in the earth so does Science?

Question

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered"
Scripture records that the "windows of heaven" were opened and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:4, 11). In addition, "all the fountains of the great deep were broken up" (verse 11). This appears to refer to subterranean aquifers, which were emptied perhaps by tectonic upthrusting. Clearly enormous amounts of water became available rather suddenly.

Nature magazine Web site March 8 (www.nature.com/nsu/020304/020304-10.html). "Geologists have divined water where you might least expect it: 1,000 kilometres below the Earth's surface," "Here, rocks heated to over 1,000°C and squeezed under high pressures may harbour around five times as much water as in all the world's oceans" (emphasis added). It explained that a team of Japanese geologists had concluded that this enormous amount of water was locked up in the superheated, core of earth..
Enough water to flood?

Answer 1

Science is the search for truth, While GOD'S Word is the truth!

Answer 2

I think I need to debunk this one. I did a search for this on the internet and only arrived at Christian sites, so I searched Nature with the text string and it could find no reference, so I searched an massive academic website and could find no reference either in any scientific publication or peer reviewed journal. It appears you are quoting a hoax someone started.



However, even if it were true, you are missing the important dynamics which would be created. Big floods are twenty feet deep and take a little topsoil with them. In order to cover the Earth, you would actually need even more water than that, since Everest is five miles high. That much water, even ignoring the volcanism required to get it to the surface which would kill all life on Earth, would dissolve the mantle itself and raise atmospheric water pressure from evaporation to well beyond lethel levels. Very few land animals, if any would survive.



The second thing to remember is that water in the core would be dispersed and would not be in the form you think of water. There would't be a pool of water somewhere at that heat. The energy required to remove that much material would devastate the planet. Consider how heavy water is just 100 feet below the surface. Lifting that much water, particularly in a short period of time such as 40 days, would kill even the sea life. Only the most extreme biological species, such as those that live in volcano vents could survive.



Finally, once the water was out, there is no process to get it dissolved back into the superheated core. Once the water was out the energy required to put it back would be even greater than the energy required to pull it from the core in the first place. If you can even imagine the devastation of the last round of water, it is nothing compared to the events that would be required to get the water back into the center of the Earth. The only advantage you would have is that there would be no land left or plants and so if you could pressure the water back into the core, somehow, you would end up with a giant miasmal global swamp with bacteria and maybe surviving fish, but nothing else. Maybe god should have packed plants on the ark too, but that isn't mentioned. There is nothing for anything to eat once the water has gone away.

Answer 3

The explanation of the world-wide flood is not going to be explained by the amount of water it takes to cover the earth as it is today.



The earth in pre-flood Biblical times was much more compact and dense than it is today. The land masses were not separated by vast oceans. They were connected, even possibly one large continent.



The majority of the water of the flood was held in a 'firmament above' the earth. It was a mass of water surrounding the whole earth. The flood was that water falling into the earth and splitting apart the land mass and releasing other water contained beneath the land mass.



To see proof of this carefully look at a linear world map. You will see the splintering of the land mass into the continents we have today. The separation was so sudden that the land mass splintered as it separated. Notice how many small land masses are in between the large ones. That is proof of a world-wide catastrophic event such as the flood.



God will never flood the earth like that again.

Answer 4

Kaneohe Ranch, Oahu, Hawaii reported 247 straight days with rain from August 27 1993 to April 30 1994



This is the longest continuous rainstorm in history. It didn't even raise the water level on the beaches.



So how did 40 days cover the earth again???

Answer 5

returned whilst i became right into a Christian, our church might clarify away such issues via declaring the scripture that proclaims the earth "became into void and devoid of type"; their clarification became into that this void state lasted for an undetermined quantity of time, and all such occurrences that required problematic examination have been very easily swept under this scriptural rug. additionally, I bear in recommendations being advised in church that some meteoric impacts have been area of God's technique interior the flood of Noah's time--the scripture the place it talks with regards to the waters breaking forth from the deep; supposedly, meteor impacts have been mandatory to shake those waters unfastened. stupid factors, i comprehend, yet that's what our church taught.

Answer 6

Yes. Did you know that a team of scientists has published information about the discovery of Noah's ark? http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=local_news&month=january2008&file=local_news2008011955044.xml

There is also plenty more science in the Bible; many of these things were written long before man "discovered" them:



1) The spherical shape of the earth(Isaiah 40:22).

2)The earth is suspended in nothing (Job. 26:7).

3) The stars are innumerable (Gen. 15:5).

4) The existence of valleys in the seas (2 Sam. 22:16).

5) The existence of springs and fountains in the sea (Gen.7:11; 8:2; Prov. 8:28).

6) The existence of water paths(ocean currents) in the seas (Psalm 8:8).

7) The water cycle (Job. 26:8; 36:27-28; 37:16; 38:25-27; Ps. 135:7; Ecc. 1:6-7).

8) The fact that all living things reproduce after their own kind (Gen. 1:21; 6:19).

9) The nature of health, sanitation, and sickness (Gen.17:9-14; Lev. 12-14).

10) The concept of entropy, that energy is running down (Psalm 102:26).



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Answer 7

God doesn't need all these underground water to do his job. He just need to wave his magic wand, and poof! There's a flood! Wave again...poof! No more water!

Answer 8

*sigh*



even if there was a global flood (there wasn't) why was Mt. Ararat the first land uncovered? thats impossible. unless God did it. if God did it, stop trying to use science.



you using science to make a point is like me praying to make one.

Answer 9

Havent you heard of a WELL

Answer 10

is there an actual question here?

Answer 11

hogwash!