Where did the water come from, and where did it go? The original question was: I have always wondered where did all the water for Noah’s Flood come from? And even more importantly where did it go? Trust you can help us. To answer this one we really do need to look at the ‘real history’ of water! Genesis records that when God created the world (Genesis 1:1-5) the Holy Spirit hovered over the ‘surface of the waters’. Since dry land is not mentioned until the third day, it is obvious that the picture here is of a world created covered by water, and therefore cool, and therefore also an absolute refutation of any big bang, hot molten blob theory. But it also means the world was created with enough water to flood the whole earth at any time since that’s how earth got started. Which makes Noah’s flood the second time the world was covered with water, not the first. Now to the questions : “Is there enough water on the earth’s surface to flood the whole earth and is there enough water in the clouds to rain for forty days and forty nights?” The answer to the second is definitely no. But the answer to the first is a big yes. Many years ago when I was first getting involved in this debate, I came across the Time Life book on The Oceans which was rather emphatic that you could tip Mount Everest upside down and stuff it in the Marianas trench which is deeper than Mount Everest is tall, and you would still have enough water left to cover the earth to a depth of 3 miles (5K) . In other words, what has changed with the breaking open of the fountains of the deep and the later relifting of the land surface and thence to the present are the following: 1; before Noah’s flood the earth was roughly 75 % land and 25% water. 2; After Noah’s flood we now live on a planet which is roughly 75 % water and 25% land. There is still enough water to cover the earth’s surface. It is simply a question of the arranging where the continents and mountain tops are. So back to our first question: “where did the water for Noah’s flood go to?” Its in several places, mostly it’s in the ocean basins. Quite a bit is tied up in Artesian basins underground, and even deeer under the earth’s crust. (See report in Live Science here.) A minor amount is tied up in ice. Trust this is helpful.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 03:27:55 +0000
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