The Earth's Water System

Many of us may think that the great flood that covered the earth completely in Noah's time was caused by the melting of the polar ice cap. However, even if the polar ice caps melted completely, the water would rise to about 65.8 meters or 216 feet. This is not enough to cover the whole earth, as described in the Bible. It is not enough to cover Mt. Ararat where the petrified remains of Noah's Ark was found. Where else could the water come from?

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

The Biblical account speaks of two sources: fountains of the deep; and windows of heaven, which means the water in the atmosphere precipitated into the heaviest rain ever. Where did the fountains of the deep get all its water?

In 1969, a mineral now called "ringwoodite", named after geophysicist and geochemist Ted Ringwood, was discovered. This mineral can hold a substantial amount of water in its molecular structure. Seismic wave studies revealed that there is a great layer of this mineral in the transition zone located between 400 to 600 kilometers below the surface of the earth. This ringwoodite layer, according to scientist, holds water three times the amount in earth's oceans. This must be the source of water that broke up the fountains of the deep mentioned in Genesis 7:11.

The discovery of the ringwoodite and the numerous deep sea fountains feeding water at the bottom of the oceans and seas made scientists believe that there is another water cycle going on in between the upper and lower mantle of the earth. Ringwoodites release water through the process called dehydration melting when subjected to hight temperatures. Geophysicist Steve Jacobsen demonstrated the reverse process in the laboratory, that means making mineral olivine absorb water at high pressure to form ringwoodite.

This led scientists to believe that there are two water cycles. One is what we already know which involves the evaporation of water from the earth to the atmosphere, and condensation of the same in the form of rain back to earth. Another water cycle is the dehydration melting of ringwoodites pushing water up through the deep sea fountains; and reabsorbing water back to the transition zone forming the ringwoodite layer under the upper mantle of the earth.

The reabsorbtion of water to form ringwoodite must be the process working in:

Genesis 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

The same process working in the following verse:

Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

What happened on the second day in Genesis chapter 1 when Yahuwah rehabilated the earth from its useless state, happened again after the flood in Genesis 8 in Noah's time. The great volume of water is trapped in the molecular structure of ringwoodites forming a layer between the upper and lower mantle under the earth's lithosphere. The water cycle continues as long as the earth is the earth.