About that Rate of Rain Fall During that Genesis Flood Myth

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This came about from an idea me neighbor had. He ain’t so good in math and asked me to calculate for him. He plans on using this against his next door neighbor whom pesters the 7734 out of him to attend church.

I post here for any person to use, regardless.

Tons ALWAYS = 1000kg. The best pseudo-facts are:

  1. Rained for 40 days. I have to assume this is a total of 3,456,000 seconds, using the assumption of 40 complete days.

  2. To cover the uttermost peaks “and then some” means minimum 9km (Everest ≈ 8,845m).

Don’t need much else. Calculate volume of Earth, then add another 9km to radius and recalculate. Subtract Earth’s volume, and you are left with the volume of water that covered the Earth. Then, you can calculate its mass from 1000kg/m^3. Remember, a cubic kilometer has 1,000,000,000 cubic meters.

VMR = Volumetric Mean Radius = radius of a perfect sphere containing the same volume as the oblate spheroid in question.

Earth VMR = 6371km
Maximum Elevation ≈ 8.845km (round to 9)
Minimum Flood VMR 6380km

Final Mass of Water = 4 597 068 188 938 064 432 124 kg (4.597 e21 kg)

Rainfall per Day = 114 926 704 723 451 610 803 kg (1.149 e20 kg)
Rainfall per Hour = 4 788 612 696 810 483 783 kg (4.788 e18 kg)
Rainfall per Minute = 79 810 211 613 508 063 kg (7.981 e16 kg)
Rainfall per Second = 1 330 170 193 558 468 kg (1.330 e15 kg)

Calculate the numbers your self. Just remember, the Rainfall Rates above are over the entire surface of Earth. I got the rainfall down to 2,608,177 kg per square km per second.

Now, think on this. 2,608,177 kilograms = 5,750,046 pounds.

That is 2875.023 short tons per square km per second. Do you NOT realize that kind of rainfall rate would literally crush and smash everything flat to the ground? Even that Arkthing? And it keeps dumping that much every second for 40 days (3,456,000 seconds).

For a 1 meter square, that is still 2.608kg (5.75lbs) of rain every second for 3,456,000 seconds!

Gads! What kind of heat does that generate? Remember, energy converts to power which produces heat.

Franklin

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Also where did all the water come from, and where did it go, oh yeah the magic thing. The god was also clever enough to falsify the geological record so it shows no evidence of any global flood.

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The attempts at pseudoscience around this are particularly hilarious. The “creation research institute” IIRC had some “scientist” propose a “hydraulic theory” of how the Flood would work. As the Bible talks about “the great fountains of the deep” being “broken open” as a partial source for the water, this “scientist” proposed enormous geysers spewing out water along with the rain.

The “scientist” was actually a mechanical engineer, but whatever.

I had a dust-up with someone from that org a few years back in which they insisted that any life that our probes might discover elsewhere in the solar system would have come from panspermia sourced in the Flood, with these geysers spewing material out into space that would eventually find its way to Mars or Europa or whatever. I was surprised to find out they were that intent on limiting god’s creation of life to earth and earth alone. Seemed a strange hill to die on; the scriptures, being ignorant of space, did not really ever say that life was created by god solely upon earth.

Elsewhere I heard confident prattling about how the earth was, pre-flood, surrounded by a heavy cloud layer which was gone after, and exposure to more radiation and direct sunlight also accounts for why people used to live for hundreds of years, and don’t anymore.

Even this non scientist sees the logical and factual holes that you could drive a truck through. But that’s never a problem for apologists.

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Just a truck? To me, those holes in religious science are so huge you drive the Milky Way through them. At least that is what I told Ken Ham and his AiG cohorts when we went at it for awhile.

Franklin

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