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A Global Flood — Impossible? Not Enough Water to Do It?

It's been claimed there's not enough water on earth for a worldwide Flood, I've heard the argument that if all the clouds over the earth emptied themselves simultaneously, the earth would not be covered by even one foot of water?"

"Yeah. A real problem," I conceded.

"I don't see how you can wriggle out of that." Great, I thought. He's ready.

"Let's start with the ice stored on top of Greenland and Antarctica," I began. "If only those two masses were released, the sea would rise by 150 feet."

"Sure, that would drown thousands of towns and cities," quipped Hank. "But not the mountains. You still don't have enough water."

"Agreed. Now, about 71 percent of our globe is covered by water and 29 percent is dry land. The area of the Pacific Ocean alone is nearly 10 million square miles greater than ALL the continents and islands added together."

I paused for a drink. The room was crowded. Some were watching television; others, I noticed, were reading or playing cards.

"Go on," urged Hank.

"Did you know, Hank, that the average depth of the ocean is 13,000 feet -- and the average height of the land is only 2,300 feet? So the ocean is, on average, 5½ times deeper than the land is high. That means there is about 18 times more water below sea level than there is dry land above it. If all the land now above the sea were dumped into the ocean depths, it would fill only one eighteenth of the oceans.

"Again, if all the land were smoothed out (no mountains, no ocean basins), the water would completely cover it to a depth of 1½ miles -- 7,800 feet of water over the entire surface of the earth."

"Whew! exclaimed Hank. "I never thought of that. But there ARE mountains. And there ARE ocean basins. And there probably always have been. Still doesn't help you."

"Oh yes it does! And here's why. It's an established fact that most of the earth's mountains are of recent formation -- in historical times, that is. There is good reason to believe that the pre-Flood mountains were not as high as today.

"It is also agreed that sea beds can rise and continents sink. This being so there is no difficulty whatever in finding enough water, even for a universal flood." (See an article by Lt. Col. Davies, in Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute. London, 1930, p.95)

"Must go now," said Hank. "Mighty interesting. Let's get into this more, tomorrow. Good night.

3 SOURCES OF THE FLOOD WATERS

It was a warm evening. Just a breeze. Very gentle. And no mosquitoes, thankfully. So I went outside and sat on a bench.

I'd tell him tomorrow, I thought. That would help. Hank was quite honest. Like many intelligent folk, who don't know the facts, he'd just assumed the Flood was a myth, and that was it. Yet it was the biggest single heritage event that our whole human race shared in common.

Yes, I'd let him know tomorrow. Let him know that the water which produced the global Flood originated from THREE SOURCES.

Think I'll share that with you now. Briefly, of course.

1. Underground basins

Huge amounts of water were locked under the earth's crust. These were "broken up" as the Deluge began.

According to tests, "there is an additional, virtually inexhaustible supply of 'primary' water that is independent of rainfall.

Like the geologists' juvenile water, it comes from the depths of the earth. Carried along underground channels, natural pressure forces it upwards towards the surface of the ground, often in places impossible to predict by geological methods.

Dowsers perceive this water as flowing through a vast network of vein-like faults in rock, occasionally rising even to the tops of hills in natural pipes, and then spreading out in a dome like the spokes of an umbrella.

"In conventional geology books, there is nothing to support this. Nevertheless, inexplicable sources of water have occasionally been noted." (Francis Hitching, World Atlas of Mysteries. London: Pan Books, Ltd., 1978, p.95)

To their surprise, scientists drilling the world's deepest well near Kola in northern Russia found deep underground large open channels filled with hot, mineral-rich water. (World Book of Science. Year 1987, art. "The World's Deepest Well", pp.206-207)

2. Thousands of volcanoes

When the earth's crust was suddenly shattered, perhaps as many as 30,000 volcanoes erupted in unison, each giving off millions of gallons of water a day. Volcanoes expel water vapour as well as cinders.

3. Water canopy

An antediluvian water canopy enveloping the earth (but that's another subject) was precipitated at the time of the Deluge. It contained enough water to cascade as torrential rain over the whole earth for six weeks non-stop. It was at this time that these waters entered our present oceans.

This thermal water blanket exists no longer. The great masses of waters which destroyed the world are still lying in the depths of the expanded ocean.

MOST OF THE EARTH STILL FLOODED

Come to think of it, the Flood waters never totally went away.

Before the Great Flood, the proportion of land area to water area was larger, perhaps very much larger, than now. At some time in the past, much of the present sea bottom was dry land.

Late during the Flood, the crust of the earth was pushed up, raising land and pushing wider the ocean bed to receive the run-off water. This water covers large areas that, before the Great Flood, were land.

So it may be said that the waters of the Flood still lie over large portions of the earth.

Who doesn't love the sea, watching the waves race in, one after another, toward the shore, hearing them crash, seeing them splash over the rocks!

Now, whenever I am on a boat I gaze out over the restless blue... and ponder.

At least 30 percent of this huge mass of water was added as a result of the Great Deluge. Down there, under the boat, is land where people once walked and breathed. I am looking at the waters of Noah that never went away.

Can you imagine those men and women of the pre-Flood era? Undoubtedly there were many who protested, "There's not enough water on earth to produce a worldwide Flood." And they had more reason to say that than do we.

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