Golmer's Blog

Young Earth Creationists like @JoeCienkowski claim the bible is inerrant and everything in it is true beyond a doubt. He also claimed the biblical flood happened and covered the earth with water. Up to the hight of all the mountains. That means at least the height of Mount Everest, or 8,848 feet above sea level. But exactly what does that entail with respect to how much water that would take and what it would do to the earth?

The earth averages about 6,371 kilometers in radius. (This varies both due to the variation of the surface of the earth and the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere due to the force of its rotation about its axis at a little over 1,000 miles per hour.) Doing the math, the volume of the earth is about 1,083,210,000,000 cubic kilometers, as is. With a mass of 5,979,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, that means it has an average density of 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter, or a little less than that of water. 

Which leads us to the next part of the puzzle. In order to calculate how much water would have to be added to the planet to completely cover the earth until the highest peak is covered, we have to increase the radius of the earth by 8.848 kilometers. That doesn’t sound like much, but by doing that you increase the volume of the earth by 4,516,000,000 cubic kilometers. That means over a period of 40 days, it would have RAINED 4,516,000,000 cubic KILOMETERS of water, weighing 4,516,000,000,000,000 KILOGRAMS distributed over the earth. That is (at least at the start and ever-increasing throughout because of increase in diameter of the spheroid) that over the 120 TRILLION square meters of earth, every square meter would have had to increase in depth by 221.4 METERS of water per day, or 9.225 METERS per HOUR (of rain).  On every square meter of the planet for 40 days.

Said water (if added to the earth) would shift the earth’s orbit and rip it away from the moon. It would have also slowed the rotational velocity of the earth by increasing its diameter, throwing off what is considered a day by a considerable amount. The change in rotational velocity over 40 days would have scoured everything off of the earth (including mountains) and made one big, homogenous layer of muddy rubble, not the hundreds of millions of layers of sediments and animals fossils we see today.

The change in rotational velocity would also have sheered the very tectonic plates of the earth away from their substrata, heating the earth as a result and boiling off not only said water, but all of the atmosphere as well. It would have also destroyed the earth’s magnetic field for a considerable amount of time, subjecting the earth to massive doses of lethal radiation. 

Noah, in his silly boat, with his two of every kind of “clean” animal (which only could really represent a fraction of the actual species of the earth that the ignorant inhabitants of the Middle East even KNEW about at the time) wouldn’t have stood a chance.