>It is extremely unlikely that the outside temperature could drop given all
>the processes which were generating heat. Think of all the earth's
>volcanoes and basaltic traps erupting during that one year. If you use
>Baumgardner's runaway subduction idea it would generate 10^28 J, which means
>that the earth would radiate at several thousand times that of the sun's
>surface.
Except that there was no sun, and the solar radiation might well have been 0.
>
>80 million cubic kilometers of basalt must have come out of the earth in the
>basaltic traps during the flood. The falling rain water when it condenses
>from water vapor to liquid gives off about 600 calories per gram which all
>by itself is enough to fry Noah et al.
This clearly didn't happen, so the scenario must be different than you
depict, although at this point, I am not prepared to say how!
>
>If the animals went into hibernation, it would indeed lower the heat
>production. But we know that Noah was told to take food, which implies that
>the animals were eating not hibernating.
That's O.K. They could well have been. This would hare relieved Noah of a
shipload of problems, and it sounds like a good idea to me, if I were Noah!
Art
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