Scientists Confirm Biblical Account of the ‘Fountains of The Deep’

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In yet another confirmation of the Bible’s accuracy, scientists have now confirmed what Scripture refers to as “the fountains of the deep.” In the days of Noah and the Ark, these large pools of water beneath the Earth’s crust burst forth onto the surface providing the massive amounts of water needed for the global flood judgment. What has once been a source of skepticism and mockery for those who doubt the Bible, has now been confirmed by secular scientists, again showing that although written over 3,000 years ago, the Bible’s description of the Earth and its natural properties are indeed accurate.

According to reports:

An international team of scientists led by Graham Pearson, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Arctic Resources at the U of A, has discovered the first-ever sample of a mineral called ringwoodite.

Analysis of the mineral shows it contains a significant amount of water — 1.5 per cent of its weight — a finding that confirms scientific theories about vast volumes of water trapped 410 to 660 kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, between the upper and lower mantle.

 â€œThis sample really provides extremely strong confirmation that there are local wet spots deep in the Earth in this area,” said Pearson, a professor in the Faculty of Science, whose findings were published March 13 in Nature.

“That particular zone in the Earth, the transition zone, might have as much water as all the world’s oceans put together.”

Ringwoodite is a form of the mineral peridot, believed to exist in large quantities under high pressures in the transition zone.

Ringwoodite has been found in meteorites but, until now, no terrestrial sample has ever been unearthed because scientists haven’t been able to conduct fieldwork at extreme depths.

 

 


The chart above shows where the water beneath the Earth’s crust is located.

 

The vast oceans of water beneath the Earth’s crust is precisely what the Bible describes in the first book of Genesis. In fact, prior to the flood of Noah’s day, it had never rained. The waters from the fountains of the deep, the water reservoirs beneath the Earth’s crust: provided water:

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

(Genesis 2:5-6)

http://beginningandend.com/scientists-confirm-biblical-account-of-the-fountains-of-the-deep/

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I stumbled on something a little while back about some sort of plate disturbance in China that they thought might be possible, if there were a massive body of water under China. 

Odd, that. 

[FlaGator]

When I saw that story a few weeks back about the layer of water under the Earth I thought the same thing because it brought to mind the story of the flood. There has never been any proven scientific discovery that has invalidated what the Bible tell us.

[BattleHymn]

Now this is just too funny, and from Slate, no less: 

Just because it’s not commercially useful doesn’t mean it’s unimportant. For one thing, the mantle is likely doing us an enormous favor by holding so much water. If the water were released into the crust, most of Earth’s landmass would be submerged.

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/03/water_in_earth_s_mantle_revealed_by_diamond_containing_the_mineral_ringwoodite.html

[freedumb2003b]

When I saw that story a few weeks back about the layer of water under the Earth I thought the same thing because it brought to mind the story of the flood. There has never been any proven scientific discovery that has invalidated what the Bible tell us.

There is that little 6,000 year old Earth thing...

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There is that little 6,000 year old Earth thing...

The Bible doesn't specifically say that.

[FlaGator]

There is that little 6,000 year old Earth thing...

The Bible doesn't really state how old the Earth is. The age has been inferred from the creation of Adam and his age. Which begs the question what is a day to God?

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The Bible doesn't really state how old the Earth is. The age has been inferred from the creation of Adam and his age. Which begs the question what is a day to God?

The young earther's seem to believe in an earth that is only around six thousand years old and I believe founded on a faulty misconception of the word (or length) of the biblical day as set forth in Genesis.


If you follow scripture you will read: "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth".

There is no reference (or time frame) as to when or how long before he created man that this happened.

The actual time though could be billions of years, we just don't know.
(It is however, the beginning.)

Scripture doesn't say how long each creative day is in Genesis Chapter 1 but only gives the order of creation.

Genesis Chapter 2 verse 4 describes all of the creative days as one day.

The seventh 'day' is described as God's day of rest.
(I take this to mean that God is not 'creating' at this time because .. I doubt that he is tired) 8)

Paul indicated that God was still in his day of rest when he referred to the earlier words of David (ps95: 7,8,11) and to Genesis 2:2 where David urged: "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest".
(God's sabbath)

By Paul's time that day of rest was already thousands of years old.

My last reference as to a days length is at 2Pe 3:8 where Peter says: "one day is with God as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day".

I don't believe that Peter was saying God's day was actually a thousand years here, I think that he was indicating that God had no actual or true measurable length of time for him (God) as being a day .. and that God doesn't judge time as man does.

[FlaGator]

The young earther's seem to believe in an earth that is only around six thousand years old and I believe founded on a faulty misconception of the word (or length) of the biblical day as set forth in Genesis.


If you follow scripture you will read: "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth".

There is no reference (or time frame) as to when or how long before he created man that this happened.

The actual time though could be billions of years, we just don't know.
(It is however, the beginning.)

Scripture doesn't say how long each creative day is in Genesis Chapter 1 but only gives the order of creation.

Genesis Chapter 2 verse 4 describes all of the creative days as one day.

The seventh 'day' is described as God's day of rest.
(I take this to mean that God is not 'creating' at this time because .. I doubt that he is tired) 8)

Paul indicated that God was still in his day of rest when he referred to the earlier words of David (ps95: 7,8,11) and to Genesis 2:2 where David urged: "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest".
(God's sabbath)

By Paul's time that day of rest was already thousands of years old.

My last reference as to a days length is at 2Pe 3:8 where Peter says: "one day is with God as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day".

I don't believe that Peter was saying God's day was actually a thousand years here, I think that he was indicating that God had no actual or true measurable length of time for him (God) as being a day .. and that God doesn't judge time as man does.

Then again maybe a day is exactly that... one 24 hour day. The point I am making is that the Bible doesn't really say one way or the other.

I believe you are correct and Peter's point is that time is irrelevant from God's point of view. Time is a property of creation but not of the Creator. Perhaps God took 5 billions years to create a world suitable for man, then again maybe he really did it in 6 days and in man's wisdom science is misinterpreting what it is seeing or perhaps Satan has confused the issue as he did with Eve in Genesis.

Paul says (and is one of my favorite set of verses
1 Corinthians 1:18-25

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

[JohnnyReb]

New excuse if I should ever need it....."Now dear, you know the earths crust rides on an underground ocean of water and I am not drunk....I'm sea sick."

[BattleHymn]

New excuse if I should ever need it....."Now dear, you know the earths crust rides on an underground ocean of water and I am not drunk....I'm sea sick."

 


I'm a young earth creationist.  I figured I would mention that, so freedumb doesn't feel all alone. 

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Then again maybe a day is exactly that... one 24 hour day. The point I am making is that the Bible doesn't really say one way or the other.

As I said Genesis Chapter 2 verse 4 describes all of the creative days as one day.

This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day God made earth and heaven.

This would seem contradictory but in truth makes sense ...

As A Religious Encyclopaedia (Vol. 1 pg. 613) observes: The days of creation were creative days, stages in the process, but not days of twenty-four hours each.

So each creative day involved a task, (for example, day and night) and wasn't a true measurement of time itself.