Was the Great Inundation of Noah a global event, and where
did the rain waters came from?
Subsequent to two articles about Noah, dinosaurs, food supply and their preservation, the number of animal spieces that could be accommodated into his ark I wrote a day or two earlier here:
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=noah+and+dinosaurs
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2022/07/following-my-blog-write-up-here.html
In order to answer this, let’s look at Genesis 8:4 that says,
“and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to
rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Let take three of the world’s
highest mountains:
Mount Everest in
the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet at 8,850 metres (29,035 feet), followed by Mount
Godwin Austen in Karakoram, Pakistan-China at 8,610 metres (28,250 feet), and Mt.
Kangchenjunga, Himalayas, India-Nepal at 8586 meters (28.169 feet).
(1 foot = 0.3048
metre).
Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of
Turkey between the provinces of Agrı and Igdır, near the border
with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan,
between the Aras and Murat rivers. The Serdarbulak lava
plateau, at 2,600 meters of elevation, separates the peaks of Greater and
Little Ararat. Mount Ararat's
summit is located some 16 km (10 mi) west of the Turkey-Iran border
and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Turco-Armenian border. The Ararat
plain runs along its northwest to western side. Ararat is the third most
prominent mountain in West Asia.
An elevation of 5,165 m (16,946 ft) for Mount
Ararat is given by some encyclopaedias and reference works such as Merriam-Webster's
Geographical Dictionary and Encyclopaedia of World Geography. However,
a number of sources, such as the United States Geological Survey and
numerous topographic maps indicate that the alternatively widespread figure of
5,137 m (16,854 ft) is probably more accurate. The current
elevation may be as low as 5,125 m (16,814 ft) due to the melting of
its snow-covered ice cap.
Let us assume during Noah’s time the climate was much
colder, and the height of Mount Ararat covered by ice And snow where the ark
rested as given in Genesis 8:4 was 5,165 metres.
Let us take a look at three highest mountains as examples
for comparison.
Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet at 8,850 metres (29,035 feet), followed by Mount Godwin
Austen in Karakoram, Pakistan-China at 8,610 metres (28,250
feet), and Mt. Kangchenjunga, Himalayas, India-Nepal at 8586 meters (28.169 feet).
This means, Everest is 41.6 %, Godwin Austen 40.0 % and
Kangchenjunga 39.8 % higher than Mt. Ararat. Probably three mountains among
others higher than Mt. Ararat were not affected by the global inundation if the
flood waters did not rise far higher than Mt. Ararat?
Let us assume the flood water at maximum was at the elevation
of Mt. Ararat where the ark rested, and was not higher. Even at that level, rains
that poured for 40 days and 40 nights would not be a regional, let alone a
localized event, but an incident that would have flooded the entire planet
Earth except the highest mountains.
Our next dilemma would be the amount of rainfall, and how
much water that would that be to rise up above sea level? Let us now make some simple calculations.
We know the average radius of Earth was and is still the
same at 6,371 kilometres (6,371,000
metres) with a 0.3% variability (±10 km).
If the water rose to 5,165 metres which is or was the elevation of Mt. Ararat,
it will add to 6,376,165 metres in radius. This means there was an addition water
volume above the oceans given by new volume minus the volume of Earth
prescribed by the V2 – V1 (4/3 π r^ 3), where V1 is the radius of Earth at sea
level, and V2 is the additional and final volume after the rains and great
flood.
This works out to be an additional 1.0858 x 10^21 – 1.0832 x
10^21 = 2.6 x ^18 (2,600 000,000,000,000,000 ) cubic metres of water to cover
up to Mt. Ararat.
The total surface area of Earth is given by 4πr²,
where r is the radius of Earth at 6,371,000 metres). This works out to be: 4π × (6.371×10^6)² = 5.100644719×10¹⁴ (510.1 trillion) square metres.
But the rains blasted for 40 days and 40 nights (960 hours) non-stop,
each hour the rain delivered 5.31 cubic metres of water per square metre
uniformly spread out all over the surface of this Earth till it reached to the top
of Mt. Ararat.
Such an inundation was clearly no longer a local phenomenon,
but a global flood event, and I am not interested in what others say, but my calculations
here clearly showed the flood water covered the entire world else it would not
be able to reach up to Mt. Ararat which was 5,165 metres in altitude, except higher
mountains like Mt. Everest. Isn’t mathematics
not convincing enough?
Having settled that, let us now examine where did all those rains
got its waters from? Surely not from the oceans by evaporation through the
normal water cycle as we know it. If it was, the rains could never cause the
oceans and seas to rise above sea-level as the rains would merely replace back
to the same level what was evaporated out. It would remain the same as it is
now no matter how hard and long it rained.
Hence, the extra water must have come from somewhere else
outside this Earth if I think logically. But from where? Surely not from the
Moon or from any of the eight or nine planets in the Solar System counting in
smaller bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets.
There is only one possibility I would propose my hypothesis
at this point in writing. At a distance between about 2,000 and 100,000
astronomical units (AU) from and surrounding the Sun, there lies a huge
massive cloud of icy bodies and comets
This is the Oort
Cloud, a spherical layer of icy objects surrounding our Solar System. This
massively huge cloud of icy objects lies between 300 billion to 15
trillion km from the Sun.
Occasionally, the gravitational pull of the
Sun may tug one of these icy comets or bodies towards the direction of the Sun
and Earth.
May I propose here
that during the time of Noah between 2448 B.C. and 1848 B.C, one of
these very large icy bodies may have arrived very close to the Sun and Earth to
be caught by the Earth’s gravitational pull to be whipped in to orbit round and
round the Earth, discharging its icy chucks as rains melted by the Sun as it orbited
round and round this Earth. This event is the only probability I can think of
as I type to account for such massive rains as this extra-terrestrial ice
orbited round and round this Earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
This is the hypothesis I propose, albeit we have no records
or evidence of such an extra-terrestrial visit.
I shall rest my case and article here for my gentle readers
to ponder over
Lim ju boo
3 comments:
A very brilliant intellectual insight to all the 3 articles about Noah and the Great Flood. It would be nice if you could combine them into one for easier reading like chapters in a book
Juliet Miles
Was it raining when earth was created
i dont know but it was raining heavily during Noah time
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