Re: Middle East Evidence
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:44:11 -0800
>RJV 1/29
>Ok - Aubrey keeps harping and harping about the evidence in the Middle
>East that somehow confirms the flood. Here's my evidence from the Middle
>East that denies that the flood ever happened.
>
>The Dead Sea is so named because it has almost no life living in it. The
>reason that life doesn't find the Dead Sea to be habitable is because of
>the high salinity of the Dead Sea water.
>
>You see, cells must control their internal habitat - and one of the ways
>they do this is by precisely controlling the composition of the internal
>fluid. Now, salt water species exert energy pumping salt out of their
>cells, and fresh water species exert energy keeping the salt in their
>cells. They must do this because of osmotic pressures that draw the salts
>to one side of the cell or the other... This is the reason that a
>salt-water fish will die in fresh water, and vice versa. Now, this
>pumping requires cellular energy, and if the cost of pumping is greater
>than the input and uptake of energy, the cells die. Now, the higher the
>salinity, the more pumping must be done, and the more food must be found
>to feed this mechanism. Thus, really salty water will tend to kill even
>salt water species. (There is also a limit on how much and how fast the
>salts can be pumped out) You can demonstrate all of this by placing cells
>in fresh water or salt water and observing underneath the microscope.
>The cells will either lyse (pop) or crenate (wrinkle like a prune).
>
>Now, the Dead Sea is called such because it doesn't have much life. The
>reason for this is because it is so salty - and life doesn't find it a
>hospitable environment. Now - the reason that the Dead Sea is so salty
>has to do with the enviromnent it is in, and it's geological location.
>The Dead Sea is at the lowest spot on earth. Thus, when it rains, water
>drains into the sea without ever draining out. As the water drains into
>the sea, it picks up salts and minerals with it and carries it to its
>final destination. Now, the only mechanism for water to leave the Dead
>Sea is through evaporation - and evaporation only takes pure water. Thus,
>all the minerals and salts remain behind, and pure water leaves. After
>millions of years of this process occuring, the salinity reached a point
>where life no longer found the Dead Sea habitable.
>
>Now, according to the flood story - the entire earth was covered with
>water. If this were true, the Dead Sea would be covered with water, and
>the minerals and salts would mix with all the other water by the process
>of diffusion. (The driving force behind this is an increase in entropy,
>but that's an entire PChem lecture.) Now, if this flood happened as
>suggested by the bible, the Dead Sea would become essentially the same
>composition as salt water around the globe. Thus, there would be a mass
>efflux of minerals and salts out of the Dead Sea - and an influx of water
>along with whatever other forms of life were existing in the influxing
>water. After the waters receeded, the mechanism that increases the
>salinity of the Dead Sea would kick back in, but the suggested time frame
>that the Bible gives from the flood would not nearly be enough time to
>drive most forms of life from the Dead Sea.
>
>Thus, if the Biblical flood did happen, the Dead Sea wouldn't even be sick
>yet.
>
>-- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com
>
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Aubrey
To reply to your above post, I suggest you read the history of the Middle
East in that location you refer to. Where do you think the salt came from?
Aubrey
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