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Trixie
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11-29-2011 5:09 AM


In the thread "Evidence for a recent flood", claims have been made as to the sources of the water of the flood, the "fountains of the deep" amongst other sources.
Arguments have been made that the flood was not catastrophic or violent, that water flows uphill, that the opening of the fountains of the deep doesn't mean water reaching high in the atmosphere, that water wasn't in the mantle pre-flood, but got there afterwards when the "single land mass" divided in the days of Peleg.
So many different arguments have been made, some inconsistent with others, that it's difficult to visualise the floodist's model and the various statements are scattered over numerous posts and threads.
In the distant past we've discussed this topic, touching on Walt Brown's hydroplate theory and vapour canopies etc, but it would be worthwhile to discuss this subject in light of the ongoing thread "Evidence for a recent flood". In that thread many claims are made regarding the source of the flood water. Discussion of that would be off topic in that thread (I think) and it would be useful to have all the claims together in one thread.
Geology and the Great Flood if approved.
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Message 2 of 432 (642538)
11-29-2011 7:29 AM
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Assuming you would like evidence for where the water came from and where it went, I don't think this would be off-topic for the Evidence for a recent flood thread.
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Message 3 of 432 (642539)
11-29-2011 9:45 AM
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It's not so much asking for evidence as asking for the "models" proposed to be examined for plausibility with regard to current science.

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Message 4 of 432 (642541)
11-29-2011 4:32 PM


Thread Copied from Proposed New Topics Forum
Thread copied here from the Where did the water come from and where did it go? thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.

  
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Message 5 of 432 (642547)
11-29-2011 5:10 PM


In the thread "Evidence for a recent flood", the source of the water is claimed to be the fountains of the deep. As far as I can tell, these fountains resulted from the release of water from the mantle (so the argument goes).
A rough calculation puts the amount of water required to flood the entire earth at 2046 million cubic km. To help get an idea of what that means, the Earth's crust is estimated to be 1332 million cubic km (I googled that). The temperature of the mantle ranges from 1400C to 3000C with densities ranging from 3.4 - 4.3 g/cm2.
What effect would 2000 million cubic km of superheated pressurised water have on the atmosphere, crust and life if it was released to the surface over a period of 40 days? What sort of atmospheric temperatures are we talking about here?
When water becomes steam it increases in volume by 1600 times, giving us a total of 3.2 million million cubic km. In contrast, the earth's atmosphere is estimated to be 51,000 million cubic km so the volume of steam is 62.7 times the volume of the earth's atmosphere
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Message 6 of 432 (642575)
11-29-2011 7:51 PM
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11-29-2011 5:10 PM


Kent Hovind already proposed the perfect creationist model for this. It was the same amount of water as we have today. The difference is the Earth back then was more flat and soils more evenly spread out.

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Message 7 of 432 (642578)
11-29-2011 7:57 PM
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11-29-2011 5:10 PM


I used to find topics like this interesting...but now, I'm tempted to just say that, when we're including in the proposed scenario a magical man in the sky who created the Earth and all life in 6 days and took a year to drown it, maybe naturalistic explanations just don't matter and we'll just say it was magic. After all, we don't ask where the water comes from when Harry Potter casts a water-creating spell.

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Message 8 of 432 (642581)
11-29-2011 8:24 PM
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11-29-2011 5:09 AM


I think this is the basic creationist idea or moddel

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Message 9 of 432 (642593)
11-30-2011 1:05 AM
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11-29-2011 8:24 PM


Isn't it interesting that the entire video is nothing more than assertion from faith in a book of mythology without a single bit of actual evidence?
Creationist arguments in the creation/evolution debates all seem to fall into two categories:
1) The mythology of bronze age, nomadic herdsmen is scientific in nature. That is the argument offered in the video. But it is presented without any evidence. The arguments show a gross lack of understanding of what science is and how it works. In science, an assertion must be supported by evidence as the basis of an hypothesis which supports a prediction that can be tested. Creationism is assertion based on mythology that is untestable and therefore, not scientific.
2) Evolution is a religion. But, of course, not even christian evolutionary biologists attend evolutionary worship services. In fact, in science, the point is to challenge everything and to accept nothing on faith. But any challenge must be based on evidence supported by hypothesis, prediction, and testing. Empty assertion just doesn't do the job.

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Message 10 of 432 (642595)
11-30-2011 2:51 AM
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11-29-2011 7:51 PM


Taz writes:
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Kent Hovind already proposed the perfect creationist model for this. It was the same amount of water as we have today. The difference is the Earth back then was more flat and soils more evenly spread out.
The problem, of course, is that it doesn't matter how flat the earth is. You cannot flood the earth using the water that already exists. If there is dry land anywhere, then that means you have to have additional water come from somewhere else. The entire reason that there is dry land is precisely because there isn't enough water to cover it up.
The amazing thing about sea level is that it is the lowest you can go and still be on the "surface". Water necessarily rushes downhill to the lowest level it can get: Sea level. Thus, dry land is necessarily above and beyond what the water can cover.
The reason we can have a local flood with the water we have is because we take it away from somewhere else: To flood point A with water, you have to take it away from point B. Therefore, it is physically impossible to flood the earth with the water we already have.
You can try this for yourself. Get yourself a baking dish and a big sheet of foil. Put some weight in the foil so that it's heavy and crumple it up into a ball and place it in the baking dish. Now, fill the dish with water so that it comes up but does not completely cover the lump of foil.
Now, try to flood the lump with the water that's currently in the dish such that when you leave it alone for a minute, it remains completely flooded. You'll find that it can't be done. It doesn't matter how you manipulate the water or how little the lump of foil peeks up over the surface of the water. You might achieve a temporary state of floodedness while agitating the water, but once you let it sit for a minute, the water rushes to the lowest level, leaving dry land.
The only way to flood the entire lump is to introduce new water into the system.
Unless you're going to re-arrange the topology of the lump, but the stories don't say that the mountains were pushed down into the waters. It says the waters rose up.
But let's assume it wasn't the waters rising but rather the earth moving. The flood was actually the ground re-arranging itself to be flatter so that the water could rise above the highest peak. This, of course, doesn't even get into the amount of energy required to raise Mt. Everest in the short amount of time described by the story. At the end of the flood, the ground would have to rise up again and Mt. Everest needs to rise 5 miles into the air above sea level, all in less than a year, not to mention all the other prominences across all the other continents. Such an uprising would require so much energy that it would have sterilized the surface of the planet and boiled off said water.
Trying to get the flood to happen with the water we currently have on the planet in the way it is described in the book is mathematically and physically impossible.

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Message 11 of 432 (642606)
11-30-2011 5:14 AM
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11-29-2011 7:51 PM


Did he provide any empirical evidence for this at all, apart from "evidence" like "The Bible says the Fluddy happened!"?

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Message 12 of 432 (642613)
11-30-2011 7:27 AM
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11-30-2011 1:05 AM


Isn't it interesting that the entire video is nothing more than assertion from faith in a book of mythology without a single bit of actual evidence?
Thats why its called creationism and not science or history, or geology or any of the sort.

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Message 13 of 432 (642660)
11-30-2011 11:59 AM
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Well, he proposed it, which in creationist talk is the same as evidence.

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Message 14 of 432 (642661)
11-30-2011 12:01 PM
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If you think about it, the bible never stated that the entire earth was flooded all at the same time. Therefore, it must have flooded one region at a time until the entire earth was covered. I propose (in creationist terms) that massive tsunamis were responsible and that every part of the earth was covered at some point.

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Message 15 of 432 (642694)
11-30-2011 4:18 PM
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11-30-2011 2:51 AM


Trying to get the flood to happen with the water we currently have on the planet in the way it is described in the book is mathematically and physically impossible.
I dont know if your right.
Given that the deepest oceans reach 11 kilometers down i think we do have enough watter to cover the earth if we raise the land under the oceans to our current elevation and squash the mountains down a bit we only have to cover an extra 29% of the earth and we dont need to cover them a whole lot just a few feet. If someone knows the volume of watter on earth and the earth surface area one could calculate if it is possible.
volume of the earths oceans 1 350 000 000 KM3
surface area 510 000 000 km2
we should be able to cover the entire earth by 2,6 kilometers if we make the ground flat and uniform
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