The flood
Ronal Baker (bakerr@cdsnet.net)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:28:45 -0800 (PST)
Helen 1/9
Matthew, in all his drivel about the flood the one question that Ronal
could not answer for me was this: If the earth was flooded to the highest
mountain, that something close to six miles deep, 4000 years ago, where did
all that water go? I don't think either Gilgamesh, which was well before
your Bible, or your Bible answers that one. The Biblical story is utter
nonsense.
BAKER 1/9
Helen I don't remember this post, and may not have read it when you
originally posted it. Let me assure you that I could of answered it, and
will do so now. First of all where do you get your information that the
earth was flooded close to six miles deep with water? That's approximately
30,000 feet of water above sea level! Creationists, and opponents of
creationism oftentimes assume that the water covered all of the mountains,
and that the mountains were as high then as they are today. They are also
guilty of using any data they feel will nullify, or discredit the biblical
stories. Genesis 10:25 indicates that the earth began to divide
approximately two hundred years after the flood. When the continents
collided nearly 2000 years later the higher mountain ranges around the world
were pushed up to their present heights. Who knows how high the highest
mountains were before the flood. They may have been only a few hundred feet
high, because no one really knows what the terrain looked like then. Since
it is estimated that approximately 500 feet of new water was added to the
present water level at sea level, the mountains (or the mountains known to
the Noahites) may not have exceeded 500 feet in height. You are right 30,000
feet of water wouldn't go anywhere very fast, so I don't believe that much
water was involved. If about 500 feet of new water was added to the majority
of the northern and southern hemispheres after the water canopy collapsed,
then the water we now see in the thousands of lakes around the world would
have been one place that water went. Fresh water also filled large holes in
the earth as well, but most of the water in the form of ice, which covered
much of the northern and southern regions of the planet eventually melted
away. In reality Helen your loose interpretation of the evidence is the
problem, not the biblical story itself.
Helen 1/10
Ronal two quick comments
1) For the water to have been over the mountains, the lakes would have been
already filled. 500 feet of water covering the whole Earth is still a hell
of a lot of water to explain what happened to.
2) You are claiming then that Everest grow 2500 ft. in the last 1800 years.
Is it still growing at this rate? If not when did it stop growing? I think
that if this line of thought is followed through on it is going to be
crazier than even you would want to defend.
BAKER 1/10
On the contrary, 500 feet of new water is not difficult to account for.
First of all the singular land mass was obviously a much larger area than
the land masses are today. The new water that did not freeze (ice age), or
did not fill up valleys to become lakes, or did not fill up large holes
under the earth's surface raised the present sea level approximately 500
feet. I would agree with you that 30,000 feet of new water would still be
covering our planet, but fortunately that was not the case. As to your
second point, I have not claimed any such thing. Mt. Everest and the rest of
the mountains in that range were probably pushed up to their present heights
when the continental shelfs, which were moving away from the singular land
mass, suddenly collided with each other. So I have not, nor am not defending
the senario you have presented.
Ronal Baker <bakerr@cdsnet.net> Author of *Biblical Dinosaurs*
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