Water beyond the Asteroid Belt, and a lot of it. Guess what: that water came from the Great Flood. If anyone finds life in that water, remember: you read it here first.
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"that water came from"
...guess what: Europa.
So thank you for admitting that the otherworldly intelligence - that put the Monolith on Earth, the Moon & that orbiting Jupiter - is superior to your 'God' then, Tel.
"2001: A Space Odyssey"/"2010". 'Genesis'. But hey, one fiction's just as good as another, amirite?!
No, I read about the Great Flood in the Bible first.
Wouldn't the Bible mention that the water went UP into space, if that was how it went?
I wonder what Conservapedia has to say about escape velocities, orbital dynamics, astrobiology, etc.
It's how some of the creationists (Hovind) explains "enough water to flood the entre Earth" has gone away. It went into space.
"Couldn't god've just magicked it away?"
There's always 'miracle' of course, but you're not even halfway into the Noah tale before you've used up more miracles than the entire rest of the Bible.
"Guess what: that water came from the Great Flood. If anyone finds life in that water, remember: you read it here first."
Will we find dinosaues in that water? How about nephilim? Or a few leviathans?
Is Terry here seriously referring to the Great Lunar Bukkake Hypothesis? Besides, how exactly do you imagine that water got off of earth and into space? If the answer is magic, then why not just use that in the first place?
they avoid the "magic" hypothesis, because once you invoke that, there's no need for using water to kill off all those sinners in the first place. avada kedavra would work much quicker and avoid the need for great big boat building to preserve the righteous.
* snork *
check lunar bukkake theory.
Terry , someone worked out the physics of water escaping from the "fountains of the deep" and achieving escape velocity. It doesn't work.
Meanwhile, here in the cause and effect universe inhabited by sane people, hydrogen and oxygen are very common and react with each other to form water. That makes water very, very, common. It's even more common in places like earth which has a magnetic field and atmosphere that protect the water from solar radiation and in the outer solar system while it's less common in places like Mercury or Mars because there is little or no protection from the solar effects.
Back in the good ol' days the argument was "Earth is extra specially created because it's the only planet with water " and/or "water will not be found elsewhere ". Guess we can't play crappy apologetics with that card anymore. Might as well preemptively assert any extra-terrestrial life came from Earth because Jesus. Of course there's nothing in the text to support such a rectally extracted story.
What is interesting though, as low a probability as I personally think panspermia is, it could just as easily work either direction. Among other things, Earth has been showered with chunks knocked off Mars like since forever.
Fundie land, in which large quantities of water can achieve escape velocity, travel to a particular spot in the solar system, then stop.
For the sake of argument assume that Earth did have these massive quantities of water; the energy needed for it to achieve escape velocity would have melted Earth' surface. Flooding would have been the least of our problems.
Conservapedia keeps coming up with these gems. So much so and so easily refuted, that I wonder whether it is the most elaborate Poe in the history of the Internet. I shudder to think that people that anyone outside of a lunatic asylum could actually believe such tripe.
"If anyone finds life in that water, remember: you read it here first."
After 100s of science fiction movies, tv shows, books and comics and the scientific communities musings for centuries,,,yeah,,after all that you'd be the first.
Start paying attention!
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