"...on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth"
- Genesis 7: 11
I know many
have read the story of Noah and how he built the Ark. I have a remarkably
simple post about the Ark on this blog from years ago that is still quite
popular today. Of course, the story of the flood predates the Bible and exists
in many cultures all around the planet. The Epic of Gilgamesh from
ancient Mesopotamia written in Sumerian (Cuneiform) deals with the story of the flood, for example.
If the story of the flood fascinates you, Irving Finkel has a book you might
enjoy reading that is titled: The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the
Flood. I do not want to stray away from what I wanted to focus on in this post
which is the fountains of the great deep. I really do not know what the
original language translation exactly says for the cited text; however, it is
interesting that it says the fountains of the great deep burst forth. The
implication is that all the flooding was not caused by rain alone, some water
from below came up, apparently. This implication is a little mind boggling because
where can so much water come from that would flood the entire planet? Well,
this is puzzling indeed. The text does not mention anything about polar ice
caps melting. I really have no answer, but I did read an article recently which
says we have a reservoir of water trapped beneath our planet that is enough to
fill our oceans three times. The following excerpt is from the mentioned
article.
After decades of searching scientists have discovered that a
vast reservoir of water, enough to fill the Earth’s oceans three times over,
may be trapped hundreds of miles beneath the surface, potentially transforming
our understanding of how the planet was formed. The water is locked up in a
mineral called ringwoodite about 660km (400 miles) beneath the crust of the
Earth, researchers say (geologypage.com).
Read the
full article at the link below.
Earth may have underground 'ocean' three times that on surface | Geology Page
To close: I do
not know if the fountains described in the Book of Genesis are relevant to this
ocean 400 miles beneath, but it sure makes one wonder. Hope you enjoyed reading.
Blessings!
References:
http://www.geologypage.com/2014/06/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface.html
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1 comment:
Ideas for posts often come from so many sources. The one for this post came from my mother, for instance. My mother Raquel passed away almost six years ago in 2014. I am pretty sure she read more scriptures than me, not that I fall too far behind. Something about reading scriptures is that often some of context may grab one's attention more than others. Sometimes a simple phrase alone sparks imagination. Anyhow, I remember a conversation with my mom once, in which she mentioned reading this portion in Genesis about the fountains of the deep. She even mentioned it wasn't all rainfall during the flood. For some reason this snippet of conversation has stayed in the back of my mind all these years. So, now you have the background for this post.
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