Flood Physics.

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I was listening to an audio bible and was wondering:

If the water took 150 days to seep back into the earth and return to the water ways, typically, how much area would the water cover if this was the case?
 

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I was listening to an audio bible and was wondering:

If the water took 150 days to seep back into the earth and return to the water ways, typically, how much area would the water cover if this was the case?

There was no flood, and there isnt enough water.
 
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I was curious about how much water would actually be required with different soil types and different typography, geology and whatnot.

Depends how you view the flood occurring.

There are positions like:

- Local flood (of various sizes)
- Global flood (but the mountains beforehand were not nearly as high)
- Global flood (covering the mountains that are just as high as they are today)
- Universal flood (this is a weird one but some people seem to believe that Noah lived on another planet or in another dimension before the ark came to earth)
 
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Depends how you view the flood occurring.

There are positions like:

- Local flood (of various sizes)
- Global flood (but the mountains beforehand were not nearly as high)
- Global flood (covering the mountains that are just as high as they are today)
- Universal flood (this is a weird one but some people seem to believe that Noah lived on another planet or in another dimension before the ark came to earth)
I'm pretty curious, so any of the above is fine.

on a humourous note, I had an idea that the earth was so soft and it was closer to the edge of the atmosphere at the time, and all the flooding totally destroyed the delicate balance of the puffy earth. Still pretty funny typing it out.
 
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on a humourous note, I had an idea that the earth was so soft and it was closer to the edge of the atmosphere at the time, and all the flooding totally destroyed the delicate balance of the puffy earth. Still pretty funny typing it out.
Funny & humourous, so clearly not a serious idea - but why would you even think of it? o_O
 
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Various different versions of the Flood can be refuted. Eventually one is left with a flood so small that there is no need for an Ark. Every area of science argues against a worldwide flood, but let's start with the most ridiculous example of that. There are those, like Ken Ham and Kent Hovind that argue that the sedimentary rock column is from the Flood. That is refuted by just this picture if one has even a basic knowledge of geology and erosion:

600px-2009-08-20-01800_USA_Utah_316_Goosenecks_SP.jpg
 
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The video portrays the effects of several cataclysmic "ruin/restoration" events over millions of years that included worldwide flooding. The opening scene in Genesis describes such destruction, prior to the advent of man, and necessary to prepare a suitable environment for us. The prehistoric world of the dinosaurs had to be destroyed and then refashioned before the creation of Adam.

The flood of Noah came later, and was not the destructive event pictured in the video. There would have been little or no uniform global evidence left behind. A 'flood model' using all available biblical information, including some assumptions, will show this to be the case.
 
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Various different versions of the Flood can be refuted. Eventually one is left with a flood so small that there is no need for an Ark. Every area of science argues against a worldwide flood, but let's start with the most ridiculous example of that. There are those, like Ken Ham and Kent Hovind that argue that the sedimentary rock column is from the Flood. That is refuted by just this picture if one has even a basic knowledge of geology and erosion:

600px-2009-08-20-01800_USA_Utah_316_Goosenecks_SP.jpg
Thanks for your post.

In order for it to work, how much would the laws of physics need to be different from this universe?
 
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Hard to say, but clearly enough for life as we know it not to exist. Why even ask?
Curiosity more than anything, the conclusion doesn't matter too much since I live in questions.
 
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The video portrays the effects of several cataclysmic "ruin/restoration" events over millions of years that included worldwide flooding. The opening scene in Genesis describes such destruction, prior to the advent of man, and necessary to prepare a suitable environment for us. The prehistoric world of the dinosaurs had to be destroyed and then refashioned before the creation of Adam.

The flood of Noah came later, and was not the destructive event pictured in the video. There would have been little or no uniform global evidence left behind. A 'flood model' using all available biblical information, including some assumptions, will show this to be the case.
The only way for a flood not to be destructive is for it to be a very low level flood. In other words one that most could walk away from. You make the Ark superfluous with such a claim.
 
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The only way for a flood not to be destructive is for it to be a very low level flood. In other words one that most could walk away from. You make the Ark superfluous with such a claim.

Walk away with what and to what. The flood came in from all directions, so wherever you went there was the rising water.
 
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One could walk away from any flood so small as not to leave a record at all. The flood that you propose would not even cover the "high hills" much less the mountains.

Evidence of the flood I propose would be nearly entirely degraded in the years since.

The flood I propose killed every human except those on the ark. Those few not drowned outright soon died of starvation and exposure.
 
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