Story here.
Summary from a layman (me):
Scientists have long thought that there are vast amounts of water in the earth's crust but have been unable to confirm it. The recent discovery in Brazil of a diamond enclosing some ringwoodite confirms it.
I have no idea what the implications of the finding are; I just find the scientific-sleuthing to be fascinating and a marvelous example of the convergence of disciplines.
However, I should have anticipated some religious reaction. Here are some recent comments (NB: There are quite a few reasonable and intelligent comments, too):
The religious comments are prime examples of what Jabba does in his threads: latch onto the most favorable possible interpretation, even if it means twisting the meaning, and ignore not only the vast mountains of evidence against you but also ignore the implications of what you're latching on to. To accept the oceans-in-the-mantle ideas as proof of the possibility of the flood, one also has to accept old earth; they forget that part.
Ah, well. Good stuff.
Summary from a layman (me):
Scientists have long thought that there are vast amounts of water in the earth's crust but have been unable to confirm it. The recent discovery in Brazil of a diamond enclosing some ringwoodite confirms it.
I have no idea what the implications of the finding are; I just find the scientific-sleuthing to be fascinating and a marvelous example of the convergence of disciplines.
However, I should have anticipated some religious reaction. Here are some recent comments (NB: There are quite a few reasonable and intelligent comments, too):
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Huh, and when the bible says that water rose from 'within' the earth to cover the whole planet...and scientists have been saying there's not enough water 'on' the earth to cover it...I guess the bible is right again. Also goes against scientists who say that earths water came from comets colliding with us. Not enough comets would do this, AND after scientists collected particles from a comet some years ago and studied it, they found that there is MUCH less water in a comet than earlier thought. More proof that evolutionists theories just don't hold...water! |
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you know you're going to hear it, so: Gen 1-6, "And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so." ..............which of course will pizz off a lot of the enlightened types but it is kinda cool that somebody, somewhere was on to this a long time ago! God? Aliens? Wayback machines? |
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Nice of the scientists to prove the possibility of the Great Flood of Noah. |
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Doesn't the book of Genesis say that water came from "fountains of the deep" (Gen 7:11) even before it started raining for 40 days and nights? Now we know the source of those "fountains." |
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LOL - Science, once again, proves the Bible right! During the flood, the water level covered the planet to 25 feet ABOVE the highest mountain, according to Scripture. It also says, in Genesis ( too) , that water came out of the ground. It is not possible for surface water to do this, hence the requirement of subsurface water to surface. You don't really think some birds carried those seashells to the top of the mountains, do you? |
The religious comments are prime examples of what Jabba does in his threads: latch onto the most favorable possible interpretation, even if it means twisting the meaning, and ignore not only the vast mountains of evidence against you but also ignore the implications of what you're latching on to. To accept the oceans-in-the-mantle ideas as proof of the possibility of the flood, one also has to accept old earth; they forget that part.
Ah, well. Good stuff.
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