I tried something similar to this...and it petered out without me learning much. I would like to try it again...perhaps I can express my idea more clearly this time.
Not only do I have what I feel may be an explanation for polar ice caps, the Ice Age, and global warming in my mind, but the idea might also help explain why the Flood didn't poach everything on the earth.
But maybe not. This IS something I've thought of on my own...so please don't blame the other creationists with this. I did want to put the idea out for examination here, though.
Here's the basics.
1. Fountains of the deep erupt. These are hot and do release much energy as heat. It doesn't poach everything on the earth, but does kill everything nearby...not only because of the heat but also because of many other factors. Places where these fountains of the deep might have been...mid atlantic ridge...san andreas fault (I am thinking specifically of the diatomaceous earth deposits in Lompoc, California).
2. The water (and debris) shoots into orbit (and some goes beyond). In orbit it supercools. It gradually (over 40 days) returns to the earth as rain. People keep saying all that energy from the falling rain would have poached everything, but I've seen rain...seen it rain for days and days without raising the local temperature any...even lowers it sometimes.
3. If this is the case (or something kind of similar) then the earth lost a lot of geothermal heat energy to space (let us skip the giant "what is heat" debate)...the water brought the heat up to space and left it there (so to speak). I think this is similar to how an air conditioning unit works...the refrigerant continually takes heat out of the environment.
4. The ice age began right on the heels of the Flood because the earth had a significantly less geothermal energy. The closer to the equator, the less this mattered, though (due to the sun, of course).
5. The earth receives more heat from the sun than it loses to space, so over the last 5000 years its been heating up and the ice caps have continually shrunk and the oceans have continually risen to current levels.
Not wanting to get into a big "Is the Flood even possible?" discussion. Assume that it IS. From that point, what are the merits, flaws of my ideas.
--Jason
***also note, that I am not saying that the Bible says this is the way things happened.
(I think this is a coffee house topic, but wasn't sure, so I submitted it here)
This message has been edited by TheLiteralist, 07-26-2005 04:48 AM
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