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Good point, maybe that's why it's never brought up. I was just thinking of forces on soil since I wrote that right after a class, but then the soil would be stirred up and washed away, which is another idea altogether.JGMEERT said:JM: TEchnically speaking, that's not really a big deal. Static stress is defined as
pgh (p=density, g=gravitational acceleration, h=height).
Assuming 5200 meters of water (~17,000 feet), the stress is only 5.2 x 10[sup]7[/sup] Pascals. Compare that value to the stress placed on the base of an oceanic lithosphere 50 kilometers thick. That's 1.4 x 10[sup]9[/sup] Pascals. In essence, the stress due to the water column is trivial compared to the overlying rock. Now, there are certainly OTHER problems associated with the flood, but stress is not all that important.
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Joe Meert
Moses?Routerider said:Can anyone guess as to why Moses didn't mention anything about the preservation of plants? He payed enough attention to animals but not much on plants.
Most people respond, "God zapped them back into existance after the flood". Well, why didn't he just do that with animals?
Yeah, as in the author of Genesis...Sheseala said:Moses?
The bible talks about the death of Moses in Deuteronomy...not Genesis. I'm really interested in responses with some substance. I posted a comment about how Moses [or whoever the author is] forgot to mention about how plants survived.Sheseala said:Why does he write about his own death then?
'If we can get the info on the angles of these plates from all around the world. 'ikester7579 said:You have to remember that there was no more water underneath the earth's crust supporting it like we have today. And when you have no support something has to give, right? That was a tremendous amount of weight for the techtonic plates to carry without collapsing or moving inward and outward. The water returning would push them back out as we see now. Because the the earth's crust size. Some areas would have been further under water than others. Some techtonic plates even may have even slid under another. If we can get the info on the angles of these plates from all around the world. We could probably figure out from the angles which parts stayed on top and which parts went further under. Maybe say like around Mt. Everest. This would tell if the mountain sunk to the lowest point so water could cover it. And so less water was needed.
Ex: ***//***
Here we have land(*) and the techtonic plates(//). Now from the angle it would seem that the plate on the left would slide upward and the plate on the right would slide downward upon contraction of the earth's crust.
Eh, I got confused when you said Moses. I thought you mixed stories and I tried to not look stupid. Silly me.Routerider said:The bible talks about the death of Moses in Deuteronomy...not Genesis. I'm really interested in responses with some substance. I posted a comment about how Moses [or whoever the author is] forgot to mention about how plants survived.
Joshua finished it when he was dead? Wow that's some feat!TaCo-BoB said:Actually Moses wrote Deuteronomy and Joshua inished it after he died.
This is a fun look at the great flood based on the literal interpretation of the bible and our current study of the earth.
Please feel free to check and correct any math mistakes I make.
Hi, Arikay
As I have said before, God could have sent twice as much water if He wanted to --- and the Ark could have been made of balsa wood.
Science does not disprove the Flood.
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