04 Aug '13 03:37>2 edits
Originally posted by RJHindsRock flowing that fast is called magma - the entire crust would melt.
[b]Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
(Genesis 1:9 NKJV)
If the waters are gathered together into one place, doesn't that imply that the land is also in one place. What am I missing here that allows for the land to already be divided into continents?
...[text shortened]... the volcanic eruptions that probably took place both above and under water?
The Instructor[/b]
The Genesis quote means the oceans have to be connected (which they are) not the land masses. Psalms is poetry for pity's sake. Do you think Shakespeare is literally true?
Do you really insist on the literal truth of the Bible? All the way though? Including the parables - do you actually think the sower from the parable was a real person or do you think Jesus was telling a moral tale to make a point?
I can point out a few contradictions if you want to take Genesis really literally. For example after 150 odd days of a physically impossible quantity of water covering the world (*) which would have killed all land species stone dead - a dove from the ark found an olive branch. How did the olive tree survive the flood?
(*) no there is nowhere it could go - you need magic to fix this - it is simply too much water to still be on the planet. By several orders of magnitude - this is a layer of water 8km thick covering the entire planet - it won't work.
Edit - reorganised and the top paragraph added.
Edit 2 - in my earlier post I made a typo - 200cm/hour should be 200mm/hour, but we are talking about a continent here.