lostinmiddlemormonism wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:43 am
Have you ever been in a rainstorm? A really, really bad rain storm? One where you can't see to drive? One where you are soaked to the skin before you make it 15 feet from the door? That is a rain storm that is delivering .5" per hour. A big hurricane might be able to deliver an inch an hour.
Mount Everest rises 29302 feet above mean sea level or 351,624".
Mount Olympus goes 9570 feet or 114,840".
Denali is 20,310 feet or 243,720"
Aconcagua? 22,837 or 274,044"
Now let's assume it really did rain for 40 days and 40 nights. That is 40 24 hour periods or a total or 57,600 minutes. If we are to believe the account in Genesis we have to believe that it rained:
119 inches per hour, 119x harder than a major hurricane, everywhere on earth for 40 consecutive days and nights in order to cover Olympus.
253 inches per hour, 253x harder than a major hurricane, everywhere on earth for 40 consecutive days and nights in order to cover Denali.
285 inches per hour, 285x harder than a major hurricane, everywhere on earth for 40 consecutive days and nights in order to cover Aconcaqua.
366 inches per hour, 366x harder than a major hurricane, everywhere on earth for 40 consecutive days and nights in order to cover Everest.
Cracks knuckles...
Before the fall the world was relatively flat, there were no mountains, 500 feet above sea level and the Adamites are starting to get nosebleeds. To get to the top of Mound Enoch (750'), the highest point in Pangea, required a Sherpa.
God really liked a spot of land in the middle of Pangea that we call Missouri today and god also got the bright idea that it would be nice if only chosen people lived there. It was the first instance of gentrification in human history. The problem was that it was too accessible by the common riff-raff. They could just walk right on in. God needed to break Pangea into chunks as a form of access control.
Breaking the land into chunks would cause a lot of earthquakes, earthquakes that might wake up all the good people from their naps, so god got a bright idea. What if there was this layer of water to buffer some of the earthquakes' kinetic energy. Put all the good people on a boat and as an added bonus, everyone not good enough to live in Missouri drowns. Win-win.
God flooded the earth with 10,000 or so feet of water, enough to make sure a toe wasn't sticking out during the baptism. Then once the earth had been baptized god started moving tectonic plates underwater. God had to be careful, making sure the good people's boat was on the opposite end of the globe from the plate that god was currently working on, far enough away to protect them from any tidal waves that could result. That's why it took a whole year, to make sure that the waves didn't get too high to interfere with the good people's boat. During this time mountains would poke up out of the water forming those places you mentioned.
That's why mountains are jagged today. If tectonic plates really only moved a few inches a year then the mountains would have eroded just as quickly as they were being built up. That's also why you don't hear much about mountains in the Bible until
after the flood.
So in summary, the world was mostly flat pre-flood, it only rained a few thousand feet, and the flood waters lubricated Pangea up enough to break it into bits. Then the good people come out of the boat and breed like rabbits to populate Asia so people can eventually come from there across the land bridge to... oops. A security hole in god's access control to the promise land. Riff-raff just walked right on into Missouri. The whole reason god did everything in the first place, all shot to $#!+.
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