Was The Great Flood of Noah A Global Event? And Where Did The Rains Got Its Waters

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

 there was another question a church friend asked me several hours ago, if the Great Flood during Noah’s time was a global event, or was it just localized around the region where Noah built his ark. I decided to pen my thoughts on this as well. 

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