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The atmosphere is full of water
The water cycle is all about storing water and moving water on, in, and above the Earth. Although the atmosphere may not be a great storehouse of water, it is the superhighway used to move water around the globe. Evaporation and transpiration change liquid water into vapor, which ascends into the atmosphere due to rising air currents. Cooler temperatures aloft allow the vapor to condense into clouds and strong winds move the clouds around the world until the water falls as precipitation to replenish the earthbound parts of the water cycle. About 90 percent of water in the atmosphere is produced by evaporation from water bodies, while the other 10 percent comes from transpiration from plants.
About 90 percent of water in the atmosphere is produced by evaporation from water bodies, while the other 10 percent comes from transpiration from plants.
EnochWasRight
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Are you implying that the Earth stopped suddenly, then later "re-started" it spinning?
Not sure I understand.
The Earth rotated in a perfect circle of 360 days a year. It now rotates 365.25. The precession of the Earth is 25920 years from beginning to end. This is 72 years for each degree of movement. One 'generation' is equal to a basic generation of life. That number should be 70, or 25,200 years. That's all I'm saying. The flood is symbolism for Baptism, or the process of beasts riding in the water. Water, in this case, is the catalyst of information expressing into form.
According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Irish archbishop and chronologist James Ussher, Bible historians and most conservative Christian scholars, the Flood of Noah's time occurred between 2500 BC and 2300 BC.
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period continue.
c. 2360 BC: Hekla-4 eruption.
c. 2400 BC: 2000 BC- large painted jar with birds in the border made in the indus river vally civilization and is now at the Boston Art Museum
c. 2350 BC: End of the Early Dynastic III period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2350 BC: First destruction of the city of Mari.
c. 2345 BC: End of Fifth Dynasty. Pharaoh Unas died.
c. 2345 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt starts (other date is 2460 BC).
c. 2340 BC – 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire.
c. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: Semitic chieftain Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Sumer and Mesopotamia.
City of Lothal founded under the Indus valley civilization.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
intrepid
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The bottom line is how can these cultures have had things going on if Noah(whoever) and family were the only ones alive? And yes there were writings of the time. Hieroglyph and such.
intrepid
reply to post by WarminIndy
So it allegorical then.
FlyersFan
- There isn't enough water. Period.
- The Old Testament stories shouldn't be taken literally.
- Archeology and science prove that the flood story is bunk. DNA evidence proves it's IMPOSSIBLE for all of humanity to have come from 3 pair of reproducing adults on a boat from 6,000 or so years ago. Impossible.
- Ditto the animals.
WarminIndy
intrepid
reply to post by WarminIndy
So it allegorical then.
Since I believe there was an actual flood sometime in our ancient past, and there were people warned of the flood in our ancient past, the flood itself was not allegorical. What makes it allegorical is why the flood happened.
There are some consistencies in the memories of the flood. And maybe it happened in Dreamtime? Like the Aboriginals believe everything happened in Dreamtime?
I will just say there was a flood.
Um, the Ark has been found (not a boat) in Turkey, sea-anchors and all.
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Um, the Ark has been found (not a boat) in Turkey, sea-anchors and all.
Any links for that?
You mean something like this?
Lazarus Short
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reply to post by Lazarus Short
Um, the Ark has been found (not a boat) in Turkey, sea-anchors and all.
Any links for that?
Yes, but no post by me. I'm past tired of presenting evidence, followed by quick ridicule. Do your own research.
A team of evangelical Christian explorers claim they've found the remains of Noah's ark beneath snow and volcanic debris on Turkey's Mount Ararat (map).
But some archaeologists and historians are taking the latest claim that Noah's ark has been found about as seriously as they have past ones—which is to say not very. (See "Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran?" and "Noah's Ark Quest Dead in Water—Was It a Stunt?") "I don't know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn't find it," said Paul Zimansky, an archaeologist specializing in the Middle East at Stony Brook University in New York State.
"I'm really, really skeptical that this could possibly be Noah's Ark," he added. The wood date is "way, way, way too young."
Wood thinks Noah's ark will never be found, because "it would have been prime timber after the flood," he said.
Stony Brook's Zimansky agreed. "Nobody associated that mountain with the ark" until the tenth century B.C., he said, adding that there's no geologic evidence for a mass flood in Turkey around 4,000 years ago. (See "'Noah's Flood' Not Rooted in Reality, After All?")
The Noah's Ark Ministries International explorers are "playing in a very different ballpark than the rest of us," Zimansky said. "They're playing without any concern for" the archaeological, historical, and geological records.
Um, the Ark has been found (not a boat) in Turkey, sea-anchors and all. What was found fits Genesis exactly