NOAH AND THE FLOOD, DID IT HAPPEN? EDITORIAL
When we think of the flood, it usually takes place some where on the east end of the Mediterranean Sea. It rains for 40 days and 40 nights and covers the highest Mountains. Every one wants to know for sure if the earth was really covered with water.
If the story is true, then, Greenland and Antarctica would have been completely covered with water. Both places would have enough cold stored in the ice to prevent it from being completely melted down to bare land. If all the worlds ice did melt then the oceans would have risen some 300 feet after the flood, ( information from the radio) all coastal regions would be covered. The ocean level would have gone down slowly as the ice and snow thickness would be built back to its original depth.
Another question to ask, what would be the air temp if the water level went up to cover mount Everest? Could people survive that high in an unheated Ark?
As the water level on earth went down some of the water from the flood would have left a layer of ice covering both Greenland and Antarctica. This ice would have traces of the salt from the oceans. The salt concentrations would be less than the sea water since it would have been diluted with rain water.
I know that ice cores have been drilled in both Greenland and Antarctica. Some place in the ice cores there should be a layer of ice containing the salt of the ocean. If no layers of ice can be found containing salt, then it would be impossible for the story of Noah to be true and Greenland and Antarctica would not have been covered with water from the flood.
I do believe that a "local" flood could have taken place, making the story of Noah true, but the entire earth would not have been flooded.
Another question we must ask, If Noah took aboard one Male and one Female of each animal on earth, how did all the animals get from Australia, all animals would have to swim thousands of miles in the ocean. The animals from North and South America would have to cross the frozen Baring Sea. Thousands of small animals and insects would have frozen to death trying to get there. I think that those animals did not make the trip and they were not with Noah on the Arc as most people believe.
This would be a good project for the National Geographic Society to make a one hour documentary. I think the world should know what the test reveals. END.