The ancient world was a water world- the Bible got it right first


FLOOD AT THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH

Job 38:

[4]"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,

[8]"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

[10]And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors,

Psalms 104:

[5]He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.

[6]You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

[7]At Your rebuke they fled, At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

[8]The mountains rose; the valleys sank down To the place which You established for them.

[9]You set a boundary that they may not pass over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.

Proverbs 8:

[23]"From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.

[24]"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

[25]"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;

[29]When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

2 Peter 3:

[5]For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

Now, evidence is mounting that some 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, the planet's oceans held nearly twice as much water—enough to submerge today's continents above the peak of Mount Everest. The flood could have primed the engine of plate tectonics and made it more difficult for life to start on land.

Here are some journal articles that show that the early Earth was a water world:

  • Dong, J., Fischer, R. A., Jacobsen, S. D., & Walter, M. J. (2021). A water-rich early Earth constrained by mantle water storage capacity. AGU Advances, 5(4), e25863.

  • Johnson, B. R., & Wing, B. A. (2020). The Archean Earth as a water world: evidence from oxygen isotopes in ancient ocean crust. Nature Geoscience, 13(2), 113-117.

  • Marty, B. (2017). Water in the early Earth. Reviews of Geophysics, 55(2), 477-528.

  • Pavlov, A. A., & Sleep, N. H. (2000). The early Earth as a waterworld. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 179(1), 19-33.

  • Toon, O. B., Ackerman, T. P., & Turco, R. P. (1997). The early Earth's atmosphere: a critical review of current models. Science, 277(5326), 1395-1401.

These articles all present evidence that the early Earth was a water world, with oceans that were much larger than they are today. This evidence comes from a variety of sources, including the composition of the mantle, the oxygen isotope ratios in ancient ocean crust, and the evolution of life.

The research on the early Earth is still ongoing, and scientists are still learning new things about this time period. However, the evidence that we have so far suggests that the early Earth was a water world, and this is a fascinating and important part of our planet's history.


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