In a message dated 3/3/2006 10:36:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
glennmorton@entouch.net writes:
(maybe I too have lost my bearings with my explanation, but at least I don't
have magical walls of water several thousand feet high at the southern end
of Mesopotamia).
Neither do I. A gradual slope of water from sea level up to a hill a little
further north is all we need to meet the bare biblical description. The
viscosity of downhill-flowing water, especially with wind providing a shear stress
and wave action on its upper surface layers (with perhaps the upper surface
flowing uphill by the wind action), is easily sufficient to maintain a gradual
slope. There is no problem here.
Phil Metzger
Received on Sat Mar 4 01:37:36 2006
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