Fossil Record Observation

[The Barbarian]

You mean they didn't just carve them blurry?

 

[Queller]

So, it happened fast. What is the question?

How does 40 straight days and nights of rain along with an inrush of below ground water totaling almost 400,000,000 cubic miles of water (enough to cover mountains 2 kilometers in height) not raise any significant waves?

 

[Queller]

There are many quite weak sedimentary rocks.

Name one.

 

[Queller]

It depends on which time scale you are using.

I'm using the time scale where;

60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.1 seconds = 1 day
365.25 days = 1 year
100 years = 1 century
1,000 years = 1 millennium

Now then, how long ago was the Flood?

 

[juvenissun]

How does 40 straight days and nights of rain along with an inrush of below ground water totaling almost 400,000,000 cubic miles of water (enough to cover mountains 2 kilometers in height) not raise any significant waves?

It certainly makes wave somewhere, but not everywhere. The farther the distance from the source of water, the smaller the wave.

 

[juvenissun]

I'm using the time scale where;

60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.1 seconds = 1 day
365.25 days = 1 year
100 years = 1 century
1,000 years = 1 millennium

Now then, how long ago was the Flood?

Not sure. But it could be something like 1000 million years ago.

 

[Queller]

It certainly makes wave somewhere, but not everywhere. The farther the distance from the source of water, the smaller the wave.

It's raining continuously and the fountains (note the plural) of the great deep have burst open. The water is coming from everywhere.

And remember what you said, "it wouldn't make any significant waves" (emphasis mine).

 

[Queller]

Not sure. But it could be something like 1000 million years ago.

A billion years? The Flood could have been a billion years ago!?!? Noah lived a billion years ago?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Not sure. But it could be something like 1000 million years ago.

How did you come up with that number?

 

[juvenissun]

It's raining continuously and the fountains (note the plural) of the great deep have burst open. The water is coming from everywhere.

And remember what you said, "it wouldn't make any significant waves" (emphasis mine).

Rain does not make wave. the source of fountains are numbered, not everywhere.
Well, I might exaggerated it a little bit. But I did not say " ... any wave, anywhere."

 

[juvenissun]

A billion years? The Flood could have been a billion years ago!?!? Noah lived a billion years ago?

That would need to be counted by a different time scale.

 

[juvenissun]

How did you come up with that number?

Several ways, one is when the mountains on the earth were low.

 

[digitalgoth]

Several ways, one is when the mountains on the earth were low.

They're arguing the Earth is flat? Just sorta ironic.

 

[juvenissun]

They're arguing the Earth is flat? Just sorta ironic.

No.
A low-relief earth.

 

[Queller]

Rain does not make wave.

LOL. Really?

Big waves, plenty of rain Sunday at North Topsail Beach
http://ktla.com/2015/12/22/rain-hig...unsettled-weather-to-continue-through-friday/
Rain, High Surf, Winds Arrive in SoCal

Storm brings 10-foot waves to Ocean Beach

Please don't embarrass yourself by trying to claim that enough rain, and water from the fountains of the great deep, to raise sea level by 2 meters per hour would not produce wind.

The amount of water needed to raise sea level by 2 meters is 2.3 quintillion gallons. That's 2,300,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water pouring down onto and rising up from the deep per hour, continuously, for 40 days and nights.

the source of fountains are numbered, not everywhere.

Give the number and cite your source

Well, I might exaggerated it a little bit. But I did not say " ... any wave, anywhere."

Actually, that's exactly what you said. "Any" means "any".

 

[Queller]

That would need to be counted by a different time scale.

What time scale is that?

 

[Queller]

Several ways, one is when the mountains on the earth were low.

When was that (using my earlier time scale) and how low were they (in standard units of meters/ kilometers or feet/miles)?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Several ways, one is when the mountains on the earth were low.

So the Noahic Flood, which, according to Biblical literalists occurred just a little over 5,000 years ago, actually occurred over a billion years ago? Am I reading that right?

 

[digitalgoth]

LOL. Really?

Big waves, plenty of rain Sunday at North Topsail Beach
Rain, High Surf, Winds Arrive in SoCal

Storm brings 10-foot waves to Ocean Beach


Actually, that's exactly what you said. "Any" means "any".

It is wind that makes waves, not rain. Water sprinkling down on the ocean doesn't really do much. Wind from a storm, which can include rain, will cause wave action. So perhaps the fountains of the deep were really windy?

A better story would be, the fountains of the deep caused mass underwater earthquakes, which then formed tsunamis, which then caused large waves that would flood low lying areas. The constant rain that occurred for <insert reason> then caused local water tables to become saturated and prevent water drainage, causing more flooding in habitable areas.

That's a much better explanation.

 

[Queller]

It is wind that makes waves, not rain. Water sprinkling down on the ocean doesn't really do much. Wind from a storm, which can include rain, will cause wave action. So perhaps the fountains of the deep were really windy?

A better story would be, the fountains of the deep caused mass underwater earthquakes, which then formed tsunamis, which then caused large waves that would flood low lying areas. The constant rain that occurred for <insert reason> then caused local water tables to become saturated and prevent water drainage, causing more flooding in habitable areas.

That's a much better explanation.

For it to be a great explanation, you have to include the fact that God blew the excess water off the planet and into space, where some of it landed on the moon and more landed on Mars.