SteelHead wrote:Let's try another one.
In order to flood the Earth to a depth of 30K feet or so (depth needed to cover Mt. Everest) you would need 4.5 billion cubic kilometers of water. Total combined volume for the worlds oceans 1.3 billion cubic kilometers.
Where did the extra water come from and where did it go?
That's not the half of it. As Tarski and I agreed in an earlier thread, for the Earth's atmosphere to hold enough water vapor so as to cover most of the Earth with water as it rained out, the temperature at the surface of the Earth would have to be well above the boiling point of water before the rain started. That is, Noah and all of the humans and animals on Earth would have boiled or burned before they would have drowned, Noah and his crew with them.
If you want an example of what the conditions would be like before a rain that "covered the whole Earth", just look at the planet Venus.
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According to the geological record, there probably was a time when the "entire" Earth was covered with water. This "Snowball Earth" period appears to have been about 650 million years ago, a bit before Noah's time.
The water that covered the Earth at this time would have been a relatively thin coating of ice and snow over most of land masses except for areas where the surface winds would have swept it away leaving bare rock and soil. Near the equator, there may have been seasonal clearing of the ice and snow.
The Earth's journey from a "snowball" back to a more temperate climate appears to be a fascinating story.