Noah's Snowball

If the rains described in the story of Noah's Ark had ever really happened, modern meteorology informs us that the result would have been plunging the Earth into a deep freeze -- a Snowball Earth -- from which it would not have recovered for millions of years.

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[valvetrom]

I always thought ice ages were triggered by volcanic and interstellar dust.

[PanDeism]

@valvetrom I think that's actually what the BBC doc proposed for the original Snowball Earth theory. No matter, the story of Noah's Flood is a nonsense myth for people who wish to believe in an insane and evil kitten-drowning jerk of a deity....

[54woody]

@PanDeism Eliminating one source of water in the "Snowball" analysis does not void the Bible, it voids the Snowball conclusion. The writers believed in a round earth, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. Gen 1:7 "And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse (likely source of the waters of the great deep) from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so"

[PanDeism]

@54woody The only thing it voids is the Bible, which after all claims that the rain fell everywhere for forty days and forty nights -- now, we know that the Bible-writers believed they were speaking of a flat Earth with corners, but they surely gave no indication of where all that water would hide inside a spherical Earth which we now know to be filled with Magma to the core, but may I assure you that that is simply not so.

[54woody]

@PanDeism At 2:32 the video mentions the rate of rise of the water. At 3:08 -3:59 only clouds are mentioned, nothing else as a source of water. At 4:00-6:00 the meteorological effect of ice or clouds is discussed. At 6:58 The effect of all that cold on an ark is discussed. The conclusion is that the Ark would and could not have survived the flood ("crushed to splinters" at 6:59). In the analysis only one source of water is mentioned. This voids the conclusion.

[PanDeism]

@54woody Please actually watch the vid and do not speak carelessly on what it does or does not "mention" -- it specifically intones at 0:42 of the vid that the waters of the deep broke open -- there's even a picture of water coming up from the ground!!

[54woody]

@PanDeism I quoted the English Standard Version Bible. The two sources of water are also listed in the original Hebrew text.

[PanDeism]

@54woody Sorry, but I quoted that line exactly in the vid -- you'll have to find some other excuse besides your failure of reading comprhension for your Bible's lie, since the constancy of the rain over 40 days is specified, as is the totality of coverage of the Earth -- and that alone would demand cloud cover enough to force the snowball effect!!

[54woody]

@RiokaSon Where does it say this exactly?