I don’t believe that the global flood happened based off of a few reasons. These are some notes I made based off of an essay written by two scientists that explains how the flood was improbably from a meteorological perspective:
our oceans consists of 1.7 billion cubic kilometers of water.
to cover mountains requires +4.4 billion cubic kilometers. 3 times the amount of water that we have on earth
where did the water come from?
If the water came from the land then the land would still be covered in water.
Mount ararat is 3 miles high and is a volcano that is formed by magma and lava solidifying over time.
The firmament?
The firmament. It wouldn’t work unless water was pumped in from space and pumped back out into space.
If there was a firmament that surrounded the earth, then scientists say that the atmospheric pressure would’ve been about 840 times what it is now and it would be 99.9% water vapor, making it impossible for humans and animals to breathe. Not enough hydrogen or nitrogen to create clouds.
Thermodynamics. As each kilogram of water vapor condenses, 2.26 million Jules of energy are liberated. This is known as the latent heat of vaporization and this is the source of thunderstorms and hurricanes. So to convert water vapor to rain over 40 days would radiate 10^28 Jules of energy worldwide, raising the atmospheric temperature beyond 6,400 degrees, making the earth the second hottest rock in the solar system. Oceans would boil, and the ark would literally burn. So no, the water didn’t come from the firmament. The firmament doesn’t exist. The firmament was an idea commonly held by those in the ancient world that space was solid.
The hydroplane theory by Dr. Walt Brown argues that God sealed 435 billion kilometers of water under the earths crust more than 20 miles thick, and it broke from the tidal pulling on the moon. This implies that God placed the water there on purpose and that water was going to burst like a balloon whether humanity sinned or not, but I digress.
Water takes time to heat up or cool down, but with that amount of water sitting under the earths crust for a couple of thousand years, the water would’ve been boiling. Steam would be released into the atmosphere, and if life on earth, including Noah and the animals, weren’t steam cooked, then they would’ve been boiled alive. So no, the water didn’t come from under ground.
A ball of ice 13,000 miles across from space. Twice as wide as Texas. A thousand miles thicker than the atmosphere. If a ball of ice that size would’ve landed in the earth, then it would’ve had the impact of 12 trillion megatons of TNT, wiping out all life on earth faster than a flood would, including Noah and his family.
Anything smaller than that would heat up and vaporize in the atmosphere, generating heat, and heating up the atmosphere in the process to 12,000 degrees hotter than the surface of the sun.
Where did the water go after then? If the water returned to under the earth, then we wouldn’t have oceans because that would be where all of our water came from originally. Another theory would be tsunami’s but tsunamis would return back to the ocean after a few days, not after 40 days and 40 nights. (Nelson and Siroca). If we say that there were multiple tsunamis over the span of 40 days, then the energy used to create these tsunamis would’ve generated heat, which would’ve heated up the earth to an estimate of 36,000 degrees.
Another reason why I don’t believe the flood happened is because my dad specializes in fish. He’s an avid fisherman and has been keeping a salt water fish tank in our living room since I was in diapers. Because of this, I know a few fun facts about fish. For instance, salt water fish have a high concentration of salt in their bodies. So when you place a salt water fish in fresh water, all of the salt will leave their body, leaving them to bloat and die. Fresh water fish on the other fin don’t have a lot of salt in their bodies, so when you throw a fresh water fish into salt water, the salt water will suck all of the water out of the fish, dehydrating it to death. Yes, it is possible to acclimate freshwater to saltwater and vise versa, but the conditions have to be specific and only a handful of fish could do this, other wise the fish will die. So if the earth was going through immense amounts of rain that filled even to the highest mountains, fresh rainwater would’ve destroyed the ecosystem of the oceans, and the rising oceans would’ve destroyed the freshwater environment.
I also can’t believe in the flood as a literal event is because there are tribes that are older than when creationists believe the ark took place. For example, creationists say that the ark floated about 10,000 years ago give or take, but the Aborigines moved to Australia around 50,000 years ago, and they still continue to thrive in their communities. Another example would be tribes in Africa, their names escape me at the moment, who had been around for longer than that and still thrive to this day, almost as if they’d missed the news about a global flood.
There are other reasons, too many to name and not enough time to list them and explain them all, but this is the gist of it.
Another thing, the videos above me have been proven as hoaxes. The one found in Turkey was proven to be nothing more than a natural,
geological structure, and that there is no evidence that the beams that are located inside the structure housed any animals.
