Even allowing the fountains of the deep (which don't exist, BTW,
there are no large deposits of water anywhere underground, nor any
evidence that there ever were), to take over half the water, the
amount of water that would have had to come out of the sky would far
exceed anything ever seen on the planet by several orders of
magnitude. The very act of raining, via the latent heat of
vaporization, would incinerate everything on the planet.
> Only for those who don't read the account properly. Note
> that only after the Flood does God give Noah and the animals meat to
> eat. Before the Flood, they were all herbivoires, both humans and
> animals.
Except the evidence doesn't support that. Herbivores require a very
specific physiology, just as carnivores do and carnivores simply
cannot operate as herbivores. The fossils show us a steady 20%
carnivore by mass. Making claims is nice, but you have to be able to
support them and you simply cannot in this case.
> I don't know why all these things are so, but I think that's one of
> the things that is so wonderful about the Bible, and discovering how
> these things came about. I view it as an oppurtunity to increase por
> knowledge, scientific or otherwise. Granted, many accounts in the
> Bible defy what we think are certain unalterable laws or notions of
> the Earth's history, but we have discovered things in the past that
> have seemingly gone against what we originally thought and led to
> grater knowledge.
But the problem is that as we discover more and more about the world
around us, it all proves conclusively that the Bible is a fairy tale,
nothing more.
> It's too bad that some people automatically assume that the Flood
> would be impossible. I do think it's good that you have actually
> explored the apparent problems of it, for i would like to learn, as
> much as you, exactly how this occured, and how it was made possible.
We do not assume anything, we examine the evidence and find that it
is absolutely impossible, without an infinite amount of miracles per
instant, for the Flood to have happened. No rational person should
accept what the evidence does not support.
-Brian