Hello Glenn,
Thanks for your reply. I always enjoy reading your posts.
I wrote: If the elevation of Noah's land was temporarily lowered slightly
(possibly due to a large Meteor impact or series of such impacts) it would
then have remained flooded until the land regained its original elevation.
You responded: This suggestion doesn't hold water either. The physics of
meteor impacts would not allow what you are talking about to occur. To
depress the lands
surface, requires the movement of lots of very viscous mantle material.
...The only part of the land which would be depressed would be that in the
immediate area of impact.
I don't fully understand what you are saying. Are you saying that the impact
of a meteor which was large enough to create a crater with a diameter of two
miles could not have triggered a major earthquake, and that such an
earthquake could not have caused a large area of land just north of the
Persian Gulf to sink twenty feet (Gen. 7:20), and that if it did that land
area could not have returned to its previous elevation within a year?
I wonder if anyone really knows for certain what the effects and
after-effects of such a large meteor impact might be.
Mike
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