Noah’s Ark – A lotta ice
by Hellbean on May.29, 2010, under Random, Rants, Religion
My last post was ranting about the story of Noah’s Ark, well, here is another one on the same subject. In this one I’m not trying to prove how the actual structure of the ark or the fact that they had a fuckload of animals in it, I’m just going to talk about a big flaw in the story.
First of all, according to the bible, after the flood, and after several days of the water sinking, the ark came to a stop at the Mountains of Ararat in Turkey. Let’s just naturally assume that it’s Mount Ararat, since it carries the same name and is in the same place. Well anyway, Mount Ararat is 5,137m high. That’s pretty damn high. So, if the Ark came to a stop at it after the water had sunken away, they would be at the top. So they would be 5,137m up in the air. I won’t talk about the obvious flaw of the fact that air is thin up there and everyone would die from the lack of oxygen, I will however talk about the obvious flaw of the fact that water freezes and it’s cold in the mountains.
As we all know, water freezes when it reaches a temperature of 0 degrees celcius (or 32 degrees fahrenheit), and it would be at least -30 up at the top of Mount Ararat. This would mean that the water had frozen and created a quite thick block of ice, since it would start freezing at a point where the temperature is below 0 degrees celcius (I don’t know where that is, but it’s definitely under 5km up in the air), and then it would continuously freeze all the way up. This would mean that since the entire world was flooded to this height, there would be a huge fricking block of ice around the entire earth. And when God blew away the excess water from Earth (I might go into this later, not feeling like it now) and into non-existance, he wouldn’t blow away the ice (we can assume, since his magic powers were most likely only focusing on the water.) Actually, if you take the bible literally, the water SUNK away, which automatically means that it wouldn’t affect the ice since it’s not liquid. However (oh, here we go), being how you can’t flood earth with the amount of water that’s on earth right now, otherwise we’d all be drowning, God would’ve had to add a whole bunch of water, and then removed it. But yeah, if we take the bible literally, the water sunk away, and the ice (that they forgot to mention, I guess) didn’t. So, what does this mean? Well, what we have is a huge block of ice in the air. But how would it hold up? I mean, when the water was under it, it was held up by it, but now there is no support. Or is it?
You see, in my thinking about this, I realized something. Mountains. The moutains would be in the block of ice and therefore effectively hold it up, at least to some degree. Sure, a couple of inbred children might’ve gotten crushed by a falling block of ice now and then, which halted the repopulating of the earth. Unless God removed the ice of course.
So, that was just a quick (yeah, like 600 words quick) mention of how the flooding of earth would result in ice. A lot of ice.