Here are a few quick reasons why it can’t be understood literally. These are based off of physics.
1. Some in here has said the world use to have thin water barrier around it making it the perfect climate. There is no such thing as a perfect climate to begin with. But more importantly is what we know as the greenhouse affect.
But before we do that I need to explain the different types of potential water barriers since most never think about it.
If the water canopy was somehow solid water how would it stay in space? How would it float in the sky? Clouds can’t even get to heavy without breaking apart. So how would even a solid 100 foot canopy of water just float around earth?
But let’s say it just did. 100 feet of water, enough to flood coastal areas, definitely not the whole world, was floating magically in space. Well the sunlight hitting it would evaporate it quickly. But let’s pretend that’s not happening either. The sunlight would hit this canopy and it would be like a magnifying glass over earth. Life would be impossible. Everyone and everything would be dead.
Let’s say since 100 feet is not enough what if it was 700 feet? Well the atmospheric pressure would just crush us. But let’s say that did not happen. It also somehow defied gravity and floated up there without changing our atmospheric pressure. Well sunlight can go past that much water really. That’s why it gets darker the deeper you go in the ocean. The whole world would be cast into eternal darkness, and super hot. Like in seconds , fractions of a second, if you just magically popped into existence there you would be melted away and crushed into nothing.
But let’s say it’s not 100% water. Let’s say that it’s a cloud. The sky is covered by clouds. Ever notice how much cooler it gets when a cloud covers the sun, the shadows that sweep across the land? Clouds have like 1% of water in a solid state. It’s actually less. As the clouds get more and more mass and volume, it heats up, condenses the vapor into droplets and as the droplets build up the cloud breaks. If the whole world was covered in a 1 mile thick cloud everything would be supper cold and it would still be just a fraction of the water needed. If the entire ocean was turned into a cloudy barrier around earth it would be almost to the moon. We would be in eternal darkness, frozen and nothing like plants could even develop, no liquid water. It’s just impossible.
Let’s say that it was rings. Like Saturn. Maybe we had giant ice rings around earth. As those rings rotated with us, and blocked the sun sometimes, that part of the world would be cast into deep darkness and freeze everything to death under it. If it was just chunks floating around us like a meteorite shower, still to dark and cold for life.
So basically all of that means that the majority of the water would need to be under the ground. Now a hundred feet or so down water is often cool as it comes up. Colored down from the well pipes. The earth has mountains of roughly 5 miles in height. So like 99% of that would have to be underground. The surface area the earth is roughly 197 million miles squared. So we would need roughly 5 times that to cover everything. That’s roughly 985 million miles squared. Well we know that 96%+ of the earths water is in the ocean. Our crust contains about 0.6% of our water. 2% of it is atmospheric. So that’s not enough to flood the globe. But we believe below the crust, in the mantle there is several times the amount of the earths water. So let’s say that 99.99% of the flood waters was in the mantle. Well the outer layer on the mantle is over 1,000°f and the inner layer, the layer closer to the core, is believed to be around 6,000°f. Now the earths crust is around 30 miles deep.
So let’s consider geysers. The Yellowstone geyser is surface water that seeps into the ground, it then flows into the “vents” which gets superheated from the magma of the mantle rising up and the geyser squirts out at around 500psi shooting up 180 feet and the first part of the explosion is super hot steam with the water being roughly 200°f. But that one geyser is not enough. It would take millions and millions and millions of them. Like every 10 feet and way bigger and stronger. Nothing would drown. Everything would be steamed to death. If you survived the steam, the water would boil your alive in minutes. Before the earth was even 1/4 inch covered in water we would all be dead.
So what’s the science on how the water covered the earth? Once we hammer that out, we can then look at the next issue. How many types/kinds of animals?
1. Some in here has said the world use to have thin water barrier around it making it the perfect climate. There is no such thing as a perfect climate to begin with. But more importantly is what we know as the greenhouse affect.
But before we do that I need to explain the different types of potential water barriers since most never think about it.
If the water canopy was somehow solid water how would it stay in space? How would it float in the sky? Clouds can’t even get to heavy without breaking apart. So how would even a solid 100 foot canopy of water just float around earth?
But let’s say it just did. 100 feet of water, enough to flood coastal areas, definitely not the whole world, was floating magically in space. Well the sunlight hitting it would evaporate it quickly. But let’s pretend that’s not happening either. The sunlight would hit this canopy and it would be like a magnifying glass over earth. Life would be impossible. Everyone and everything would be dead.
Let’s say since 100 feet is not enough what if it was 700 feet? Well the atmospheric pressure would just crush us. But let’s say that did not happen. It also somehow defied gravity and floated up there without changing our atmospheric pressure. Well sunlight can go past that much water really. That’s why it gets darker the deeper you go in the ocean. The whole world would be cast into eternal darkness, and super hot. Like in seconds , fractions of a second, if you just magically popped into existence there you would be melted away and crushed into nothing.
But let’s say it’s not 100% water. Let’s say that it’s a cloud. The sky is covered by clouds. Ever notice how much cooler it gets when a cloud covers the sun, the shadows that sweep across the land? Clouds have like 1% of water in a solid state. It’s actually less. As the clouds get more and more mass and volume, it heats up, condenses the vapor into droplets and as the droplets build up the cloud breaks. If the whole world was covered in a 1 mile thick cloud everything would be supper cold and it would still be just a fraction of the water needed. If the entire ocean was turned into a cloudy barrier around earth it would be almost to the moon. We would be in eternal darkness, frozen and nothing like plants could even develop, no liquid water. It’s just impossible.
Let’s say that it was rings. Like Saturn. Maybe we had giant ice rings around earth. As those rings rotated with us, and blocked the sun sometimes, that part of the world would be cast into deep darkness and freeze everything to death under it. If it was just chunks floating around us like a meteorite shower, still to dark and cold for life.
So basically all of that means that the majority of the water would need to be under the ground. Now a hundred feet or so down water is often cool as it comes up. Colored down from the well pipes. The earth has mountains of roughly 5 miles in height. So like 99% of that would have to be underground. The surface area the earth is roughly 197 million miles squared. So we would need roughly 5 times that to cover everything. That’s roughly 985 million miles squared. Well we know that 96%+ of the earths water is in the ocean. Our crust contains about 0.6% of our water. 2% of it is atmospheric. So that’s not enough to flood the globe. But we believe below the crust, in the mantle there is several times the amount of the earths water. So let’s say that 99.99% of the flood waters was in the mantle. Well the outer layer on the mantle is over 1,000°f and the inner layer, the layer closer to the core, is believed to be around 6,000°f. Now the earths crust is around 30 miles deep.
So let’s consider geysers. The Yellowstone geyser is surface water that seeps into the ground, it then flows into the “vents” which gets superheated from the magma of the mantle rising up and the geyser squirts out at around 500psi shooting up 180 feet and the first part of the explosion is super hot steam with the water being roughly 200°f. But that one geyser is not enough. It would take millions and millions and millions of them. Like every 10 feet and way bigger and stronger. Nothing would drown. Everything would be steamed to death. If you survived the steam, the water would boil your alive in minutes. Before the earth was even 1/4 inch covered in water we would all be dead.
So what’s the science on how the water covered the earth? Once we hammer that out, we can then look at the next issue. How many types/kinds of animals?
