16,854' Mt Ararat (photo by Andrew Sevag) 

Greetings,

Though its 14,000-foot + location on Mount Ararat beautifully suits the biblical description for the resting place of Noah's Ark, NAMI's discovery brings to the fore a scientific dilemma. A local "Flood" could not have raised the Ark to such heights. Hasn't man explored the depths of the earth and the distant heavens? But water seems rare and in short supply? Identifying sources of water that might cover the earth's mountains presents such an insurmountable problem that I would have never become interested in Noah's Flood were it not the difficulty that Jesus' reference to this event posed to my faith.

The latter caused me to do a lot of searching. For many years, I put the question about the water aside because I knew that our scientific knowledge is frequently over-turned. I wanted first to know from the archaeological evidence whether the Flood did in fact take place. If that proved to be negative, there was no point in being concerned about the source of the waters. But if the evidence does show a worldwide Flood, that is a problem for geology instead of the Bible!

After I had gotten my answer from the archaeological search, my interests shifted to the scientific issues: animal migrations, ark size, and, at last, the water. As I was reflecting on the problem, it occurred to me to ask why the earth's continents, that float on a mantel of liquid rock, stick up higher than the oceans. Earth is heavier than water. The earth's surface ought to be completely, not mainly covered with water - unless there is something floating on the liquid mantel like an iceberg on the ocean, one that is lighter or less dense than the oceans. Even after the Flood, there must still be more water inside the continental basins than in the oceans! 

I later learned that the only direct evidence as to what is deep beneath the continents' crustal rocks (from the Russian 7-mile drill) is showing water.This was confirmed this past week with the discovery of a great river of water deep in the oil drills beneath the Amazon basin. The earth's depths are not liquid iron and nickel as assumed by the current theory, which assumes the earth was formed from meteorites. The earth was probably formed from water because the heavens are so full of water. Every day, thousands of micro-comets impact our atmosphere. Great amounts are found in interstellar space. Dark matter may just be water. It may not be just the earth whose interior is filled with water, which is far more compressible and perhaps heavier than liquid rock. The details and documentation supporting this new (and ancient) cosmology are contained in my book.

As explained below, there is plenty of evidence that the earth's climate and surface changed dramatically and suddenly just a little over four thousand years ago, the time when advanced civilizations occupied what are now the earth's deserts. Likewise, there is evidence that the earth's mountains have recently risen and that the oceans have become deeper and wider. We need to understand what philosophers of science already know: the big theories about our world are not based on the evidence, but on fashions and political interest. 

Regards to all,