Featured The Great Flood

Many years ago our pastor, at the time, took the church youth to see "Dinosaur Adventureland" in Pensacola and I went along as a chaperone. There were lots of goofy "proofs" in his museum including pictures of "mokele mbembe" and the "loch ness monster" . I even met Mr. Hovind himself and heard him griping about taxes. On the way home, when I mentioned some of the junk science to my pastor, he admonished me for it.

 

Aren't the stars in the firmament? Wouldn't those waters be beyond the stars?

 

NASA thinks they spotted a body of water 140 trillion times bigger than earth's oceans, 12 billion light years out. See: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html Search the 404 page for: water in space.

Potability is not readily apparent. Certainly sounds like enough to cover the earth in a catastrophic manner.

"And God closed the door."

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Bro. James

 

If it's "12 billion light years" away, I doubt very seriously they can tell what material anything is made of.

 

I disagree. The text seems to me to express otherwise. God created a firmament in the midst of the waters and put the sun moon and stars in that firmament. I think Adam could look up at night and see each pinpoint of light in the sky.

 

Going back to the Ark in which God preserved seed to replenish the earth--what kind of termites were in the the wood? Did they make a lot of greenhouse gas? One of the biggest problems in the world today is too many termites--also too many people for the food supply. How about chocolate covered termites for protein?

Time to get serious: God said there would be famine and pestilence in the end of time. We haven't seen anything yet.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Bro. James

 

In my view Gen 1 negates what you said, but water vapor in quantities sufficient to have the thermal effects you are describing would be practically opaque.

 

Lol, because it's too thin.

But that's beside the point. God called the firmament, the expanse between the waters that are below and the waters that are above the firmament, "heaven," and therein he placed the sun moon and stars.

 

Fish?
Seals?
Paramecia?
Amoeba?

 

One of us isn't following. Aren't you saying the sun and moon were outside your theoretical vapor canopy?

 

Paramecia and amoebae were spared? How about mesquitos? Ticks? Viruses?

 

Well that's the difficulty, then. If the firmament is the division between the waters above and the waters below, and the sun, moon and stars are in the firmament, then your vapor canopy is somewhere beyond the stars.

Anticipating your response, I will say simply that one has to come to the text with a presupposition to assume the firmament of vs 6 is not the one of vs 14.