[On the discovery of an underground ocean beneath layers of a mineral called "ringwoodite".]
It seems to me that the key, critical, operative words here are "broken up".
Think of a fountain. How can a fountain be "broken up"? It can ebb, and cease to flow. It can get disrupted and resume its gushing. But can it get broken up?
On the other hand, getting "broken up" is what one might expect for a mineral that exists under great temperatures and pressures, hundreds of miles in the earth's mantle, as a precursor to releasing its trapped water. The supernatural hand of God or His Angels could have triggered a disruption of the ringwoodite rock layers, causing them to release the trapped water, which would have poured out onto the surface through tectonic boundaries. Like "fountains of the deep".
Once again, the Bible is proved true, as the true inerrant word of God! Praise the Lord! Praise Jesus! Praise His Holy Name!
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From the original article:
"Jacobsen told the New Scientist that the hidden water might also act as a buffer for the oceans on the surface, explaining why they have stayed the same size for millions of years. "If [the stored water] wasn't there, it would be on the surface of the Earth, and mountaintops would be the only land poking out," he said."
"Once again, the Bible is proved true, as the true inerrant word of God! Praise the Lord! Praise Jesus! Praise His Holy Name!"
Once again the bible is shown to be full of shit! Fundies are idiots! They cite sources that contradict their claims!
i'd never heard of ringwoodite, so i googled it. (this site teaches me a lot that way.)
turns out it's a mineral that can trap hydroxide ions in its crystal structure. which is neat and interesting, but pretty far from "trapped water", much less any "fountains of the deep".
"Once again, the Bible is proved true, as the true inerrant word of God"
Once again, fundies conveniently ignore all of the other places in the buybull where it isn't "true" or "inerrant". They conveniently ignore where it still says bats are birds, pi=3, insects have four legs, the earth is flat and has four corners, and that there is still no evidence for a world-wide flood. Praise Ignorance! Praise Stupidity! Praise MakingUpShitforJeebus' Holy Name!
Uh, no it isn't. If there is just one counterexample, the whole idea of inerrance goes down the tubes.
There are so many that I'm just going to name the "fact" that pi=3.
"...causing them to release the trapped water, which would have poured out onto the surface through tectonic boundaries..."
Never mind that these tectonic boundaries are hot enough to melt rock. It's unlikely that water would just "pour out" of a super-heated tectonic boundary. But I guess that's not a problem for another "goddidit".
Uh, there's still no evidence of a global flood or a worldwide genetic bottleneck 6,000 years ago. But if you're that desperate to keep believing in a global flood, then knock yourself out. But you're going to sound as crazy as Nephilimfree who thinks that water squirting out of the earth made the craters on the moon and all comets.
When I first read about the "underground ocean", I thought, "Just watch, some fundidiot is going to claim this is evidence for the global flood..."
Part of me was thinking, "They couldn't possibly be THAT stupid, could they?"
Well, yes, obviously, they can.
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First "The supernatural hand of God or His Angels could have"...
then "Once again, the Bible is proved true, as the true inerrant word of God!"
Hmm... needs a stronger causal link there...
Someone should post the picture of the complex equation with "then a miracle occurs" in the middle.
The fundiesphere has gone wild with this idea since the article was published.
You can always count on them to misunderstand science for their own benefit, when they're not actively bashing it for being satanic
Yeah...except the geological record, world-wide, shows no evidence of a world wide flood (in fact, it shows evidence that such a thing did not occur).
So nice fucking try.
I knew they'd get happy feet on this one, I expected Answers in Genesis to pick up on it first. The article makes it sound as if these bowels of the Earth liquified areas could raise ocean levels to the tops of the mountaintops. I'm a bit suspicious of the intent of the articles author, seemed to lean towards describing it in near Biblical context.
Fact is we've know of liquified areas for decades and when the Earth gets shuddery these areas increase and settle when things are sedate for long periods. Shake it up it resorts and becomes more fluid, sinkholes, quicksand, water underground, same as it ever was.
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so let me see if I understand this. Take a big slab of ringwoodite and hit it wih a sledge hammer. Water then runs out of the cracks and puddles on the floor.
AmIright ?
no, I dont think it works that way.
It seems to me that the key, critical, operative words here are "broken up".
As in, "Geologists all over the world are just broken up at the superstitious ignorance of SumSam."
Originally Posted by Firefly
Oish... The entire thread is solid gold!
On the other hand, getting "broken up" is what one might expect for a mineral that exists under great temperatures and pressures, hundreds of miles in the earth's mantle, as a precursor to releasing its trapped water.
And then all that SUPERHEATED FLUID comes screaming to the surface, boiling instantly anything near it... which since that water covered the fucking globe, would be EVERYTHING.
Including a little wooden boat...
Once again, the Bible is proved true, as the true inerrant word of God!
Wait..? The Bible states that Noah et al got boiled alive in their boat? That's a new one on me...
Fundie: Science is a lie!
[New scientific findings that superficially confirm one small part of the Bible]
Fundie: See, science proves that all of the Bible is The Truth!
Confused?
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