how did the great flood happen, how did all the water get there?
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.  \n \nGenesis 7:11 \n\ni like to emphasize that in this verse the great deep are broken up. below on the earth crust theres the aceous layer that lots of water. and their were broken. and the 40 days and nights rain make it a whole lot of water
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Good thinking, unlike some of the answers here. Anything put in or on the water displaces water and makes the water level rise. The ocean is so huge that you could not measure it unless the rock was so large you could not move it.
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There are several ways that these things can happen.  The droughts can be brought on by increased tempurature.  My geography teacher once showed us infrared pictures of the same area of rainforrest, one before the trees were cut down and one after.  The result was a tempurature increase.  A drought could also be caused becasue a of a decrese in transpiration (process of trees giving off water from their leaves).  As for flooding I don't really know, but errosing increases because there are no longer tree roots to hold the soil together.
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What would have happened had all of the existent water in the atmosphere fallen during those forty days and forty nights? \n\nCalculations indicate that there is approximately 0.013 x 1015 m3 of water in the planet's atmosphere. This corresponds to approximately 13 x 1018cm3 of water. Now the questions looks like this: What would have happened if, during forty days and forty nights, 13 x 1018cm3 of water had fallen in the form of rain?\n\nTo answer this question, we need to know the surface area of the planet. It is approximately 510,067,000 km2. This corresponds to approximately 51 x 1017 cm2. If we imagine that the surface of the earth is completely smooth and that the oceans, seas, rivers, and streams are at the same level as the earth, then the water would reach a height that is provided by a simple equation, namely: \n\nV = A x h where V is volume, A is area and h is height. To obtain the height, the equation is as follows: h = V/A\n\nBy substituting V with the volume of existent water in the atmosphere and A with the surface area of the planet, we have: \n\nh = 13 x 1018cm3/51 x 1017 cm2 = 2.55 cm\n\nTherefore, if all of the existent water in the atmosphere were to fall upon the earth, independent of the amount of time it rained, the maximum height attained would be 2.55 centimeters, according to available data. We have now offered the first disagreement between the Bible and our current knowledge with respect to the deluge.
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You should take a look here to see the formation of the ocean basins: http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/change.html\nand then the next page, to see one theory on where the water comees from:\nhttp://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/cycle.html\n\nPerhaps a better answer is here:\nhttp://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct99/941236464.Es.r.html\n\nFurther discussion on the origins of all the water is given here:\nhttp://www.oceansonline.com/ocean_form.htm\nand under the "Origin of the oceans" title here:\nhttp://www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/oceans.htm
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According to many Biblical scholars, the Garden of Eden was destroyed along with the rest of the world during the Great Flood that was survived only by Noah, his family, and some very fightened animals. And, after somehow getting through all of that, Noah still slaughtered and sacrificed several of the animals after it was all done. "Just not your day!"
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figure the bottom, the top gets fed more water as it flows down river by rain, the bottom gets its water from runoff - the effect of the rain up-stream.
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That's really a very interesting question.  The short answer is that the water evaporates rises to form a cloud and drifts somewhere else (over land, lake or ocean) to fall as precipitation (rain or snow, etc.) returning to where it began but in a different spot upon the planet.  And don't forget that some of the water is broken down in plants to form hydrocarbons (perhaps the wood of a giant sequoia tree).\n\nThe fascinating answer is that some of the precipitation falls at the poles and is locked up for centuries within mile thick glaciers.  Some of the rain drifts to the poles with salt water and is chilled so cold it sinks to the bottom then finds its way to the seven seas in very cold currents that finally wend to the tropics and rise to replace evaporated seawater.  The bottoms of the oceans even at the tropics is dark and icy cold and the entire cycle from pole to tropics and back to the atmosphere can take centuries.  Some of the precipitation can drain into underground rivers and even refill huge aquifers that underlay many contiguous states.  The water in many aquifers has been there for centuries (even since the last glaciers retreated).  Although everything remains in a vague equilibrium (perhaps interrupted by ice ages) a drop of water that evaporates may be taken out or the normal water cycle for hundreds of years at a time.
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First off it was a local flood. So not every specie was in that area. They could have been infants. \n\nNoah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.\nGen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, \nThe word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time. \nGen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. \nThe term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.\nGen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. \nThe word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.\nGen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. \nThe word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.\nGen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. \nGen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. \nIf the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.\nGen 9:11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. \nRemember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.\nSome consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.  \nUssher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.\nRecords of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption. \nSo Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7,  Jer.4:23-27.\nPsa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. \nGen 1:6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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water on the ground, in oceans, lakes, etc. has enough energy to evaporate a little bit (all liquids have a "vapor pressure," which is higher the hotter it is).  eventually, there is too much water in the air at whatever air temperature it is, so the water re-liquifies and falls.  this can commonly happen when a warm front (warm air holds lots of water) is cooled by a cold front.
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Water! Most of the earth is covered with water.
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The main parts of a river include a channel, in which the water flows, and a floodplain—a flat region of a valley on either side of the channel. Through the channel and floodplain, water and sediment—material transported by the river, such as sand and silt—are transferred from ridges and mountains to the sea or to a lake. A river starts on hillsides as small channels, or rills. The rills combine to make larger channels or tributaries that eventually come together, forming distinct streams. The largest channels formed by this convergence of tributaries are rivers, and they can carry large quantities of fresh water and sediment across continents.
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they got it from rivers and stuff.  they used it to wash, drink, boil, cook food with, water crops, etc.
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in the FLOOD mentioned in Genesis...
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I have no idea. Technically, some people already have to walk out to a river to get water.
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MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT THEY HAVE SEEN IT, BUT THERE ARE NO PICTURES TO PROVE THIS.  "This is long, but interesting"\n\nThe Unforgettable Flood\n\nABOUT 4,300 years ago, a catastrophic deluge inundated the earth. In one gigantic sweep, it wiped out nearly every living thing. It was of such magnitude that it left an indelible impression on mankind, and each generation passed the story on to the next.\n\nSome 850 years after the Flood, the Hebrew writer Moses put the account of the earth-wide Deluge into writing. It has been preserved in the Bible book of Genesis, where we can read the graphic details in chapters 6 to 8.\n\nBible Account of the Flood\n\nGenesis gives these details, obviously those of an eyewitness: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And the deluge went on for forty days upon the earth, and the waters kept increasing and began carrying the ark and it was floating high above the earth. And the waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered.”—Genesis 7:11, 17, 19.\n\nConcerning the Flood’s impact on living things, the Bible says: “All flesh that was moving upon the earth expired, among the flying creatures and among the domestic animals and among the wild beasts and among all the swarms that were swarming upon the earth, and all mankind.” However, Noah and seven other persons survived, along with a sampling of every beast, flying creature, and thing moving on the ground. (Genesis 7:21, 23) All had been preserved in a large floating ark that was about 437 feet [133 m] long, 73 feet [22 m] wide, and 44 feet [13 m] high. Since the only functions of the ark were that it be watertight and that it stay afloat, it had no rounded bottom, sharp bow, means of propulsion, or equipment for steering. Noah’s ark was simply a rectangular, chestlike vessel.\n\nFive months after the Deluge began, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, situated in present-day eastern Turkey. Noah and his family went out of the ark onto dry land one year after the Flood had started and began anew the normal routine of life. (Genesis 8:14-19) In time, mankind had multiplied sufficiently to begin building the city of Babel and its infamous tower near the Euphrates River. From there people were gradually scattered to all parts of the earth when God confused the language of mankind. (Genesis 11:1-9) But what became of the ark?\n\nSearching for the Ark\n\nSince the 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to find the ark on the mountains of Ararat. These mountains have two prominent peaks, one 16,950 feet [5,165 m] high and the other 12,840 feet [3,914 m]. The higher of the two is perpetually covered by snow. Because of the climatic changes that followed the Flood, the ark would soon have been buried by snow. Some investigators firmly believe that the ark is still there, buried deep in a glacier. They claim that there have been periods when the ice melted sufficiently to permit part of the ark to be exposed temporarily.\n\nThe book In Search of Noah’s Ark quotes George Hagopian, an Armenian, who claimed that he climbed Mount Ararat and saw the ark in 1902 and again in 1904. On the first visit, he said, he actually climbed on top of the ark. “I stood up straight and looked all over the ship. It was long. The height was about forty feet [12 m].” Regarding his observation on his subsequent visit, he said: “I didn’t see any real curves. It was unlike any other boat I have ever seen. It looked more like a flat-bottomed barge.”\n\nFrom 1952 to 1969, Fernand Navarra made four efforts to find evidence of the ark. On his third trip to Mount Ararat, he worked his way to the bottom of a crevasse in a glacier, where he found a piece of black wood
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It rains\nthe rain collects and then either:\n\nsoaks into the ground and comes out later\nflows into a river then the sea\n\nAt some point it evaporates and forms clouds\n\nthen it rains...\n\nsee above!