Fun with the Flood math.

[Routerider]

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?

 

[Sheseala]

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.

Cheers

Joe Meert

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.

 

[Sheseala]

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?

Moses?

 

[Routerider]

Moses?

Yeah, as in the author of Genesis...

 

[Sheseala]

Why does he write about his own death then?

 

[Routerider]

Why does he write about his own death then?

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.

 

[bushman]

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.

'If we can get the info on the angles of these plates from all around the world. '

As a Christian I want other Christians to know of the findings in the region called Bushmanland South Africa. The 'Geology of Kenhardt' (2920)

 

[Sheseala]

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.

Eh, I got confused when you said Moses. I thought you mixed stories and I tried to not look stupid. Silly me.

 

[TaCo-BoB]

Actually Moses wrote Deuteronomy and Joshua inished it after he died.

 

[theFijian]

Actually Moses wrote Deuteronomy and Joshua inished it after he died.

Joshua finished it when he was dead? Wow that's some feat!

 

[Arikay]

Ah, it's a zombie, an undead.
::Runs away screaming::


Bob: But aren't we all undead?
Rob: True.
Zombie: Need human flesh, grrr arrrgh.
Bob: :;Pats zombie on head:: There there we'll get you your flesh. Lets go to a Vegas strip show.
Rob: I don't think that's what he means.
Bob: Shhhh, I plan on dropping him off at one of the retirement homes, they wont know the difference.
Rob: True.
Zombie: Grrr Arrgh, tasty Bunny, yum.
Rob: Lets go before he eats my other Chia Pet.

 

[Mistermystery]

Nica calcs.

 

[Ceili]

Obviously, God drank all the water.

Either that or the flood didnt happen

LOL

 

[Nitron]

Fear the threadomancer. Always.

 

[AV1611VET]

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.

 

[AirPo]

Fear the threadomancer. Always.

Not once, but twice!

 

[AirPo]

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.

Not in the fantasy sense, but certainly in the literal sense.

 

[ChordatesLegacy]

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.

When geology started, one of the things they were looking for was evidence of the flood, none was found. Infact all evidence pointed to no flood.
So does the biological evidence.
and common sense

Only stupidity point to the flood realy happening

 

[TheBear]

LOL

So that's how we resurrect ancient threads. A simple "LOL", with no additional commentary, does the trick.

Bored today?

 

[HumanisticJones]

And on the 4th year it rose again, to confuse people and to show Humanistic Jones that he's not the only person that's tried to do hydrological analysis of the flood.