And that would have been quite a deluge. In 40 days and 40 nights it rained 29,000 feet over all the surface of the Earth.
yes , but you shouldnt confuse this deluge with the comparatively low amounts of rainfall that the earth receives due to solar radiation.
thats kind of like comparing a firecracker to a hydrogen bomb.
That comes to 70 feet per day, or approximately 3 feet per hour.
there are recent records that show several feet in a 24 hour period from solar radiation alone and that radiation is
apx 93 million miles away.
I'm surprised the ark didn't swamp under that kind of a deluge.
it was probably really rough at first but as more and more land was covered the water would calm down because it could flow over the areas where land once blocked it from flowing.
like the smooth rolling waves in the middle of todays oceans.
Then you would have to explain where sufficient heat came from to dewater the transition zone, and drive that water to the surface.
try this
from around 130,000 years ago until
around 13,000 years ago a very large amount of the earths
water became locked up in ice.
the ice formed around the north and south poles.
and extended towards the equator for thousands of miles
and was several miles thick.
thats a lot of weight moving to the center of rotation
and this movement of mass to the center of rotation caused
the earths crust to spin faster.
so the earths crust was spinning much faster than it is today.
and the friction between the magma and the earths core caused an enormous amount of heat that was transfered into the magma
this caused the transition zone to heat up , and along with the heating up , the magma that melted the transition zone and filled the transition zone expanded the way that magma / all matter does due to temperature increases.
