Noah's Flood - Where did the Water Com From?
One of the most frequent questions asked about the account of Noah’s Flood in Genesis is a matter of simple volume: Is there enough water? Where did the water come from? When we look at the current geography of the earth, with Mount Everest soaring over 29,000 feet into the atmosphere, the idea of a global flood seems physically impossible. If all the moisture in the atmosphere were to precipitate at once, it would cover the globe to a depth of only about an inch. Even if the polar ice caps melted completely, sea levels would rise significantly, but they would not swallow the continents. However, a close reading of the biblical text, combined with insights from geological models, suggests that the event described in Genesis was not merely a case of "bad weather." It was a geological cataclysm of global proportions that reshaped the planet's surface. To understand where the water came from, we have to look beyond the clouds. The "Fountains of the Great Deep...