Buster Dobb's Ark Theory

Mark Bakke mlbakke1@earthlink.net
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 16:26:19 -0500 (00917839579, 36B4CA7B.E17D7AB5@earthlink.net) 


>>BAKKE

>>The list of obvious problems surrounding the Flood story is quite long.

>>One of my favorites involves the fact that the amount of atmospheric

>>water vapor that would have been required to produce the Biblical amount

>>of rainfall would have increased atmospheric pressure and temperature to

>>such extreme levels that Noah and company would first have been crushed

>>flat and then boiled away in a pressure cooker.

> 

> CREA

>     In point of fact, the pressures are not unendurable -- as any deep diver

> working for the Navy will testify.  The more serious problems involve such

> things as nitrogen narcosis (starting at pressures around 4 ATM. or 70+ PSI)

> and oxygen toxicity (starting at a mere 2+ ATM or 29+ PSI).  And then,

> assuming sufficient water vapor to account for all the increase in water

> levels, the heat of condensation accompanying the conversion of all that

> gaseous water into liquid form would have raised temperatures on earth to

> above the melting point of lead.


BAKKE
Atmospheric pressure immediately prior to the beginning of the Deluge
would have to have been equivalent to the water pressure at a depth of
29,000+ feet under the surface of the sea (approximately 7 tons per
square inch or almost 1000 atmospheres).  The depth record for scuba
diving is barely over 400 feet and the record for a simulated dive
utilizing a hydrogen/oxygen/helium gas mixture is 2300 feet.  I doubt
that poor old Noah (or anybody else) would have survived long enough to
see the rainfall begin.

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