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Most of the water thus released washed over all the land areas in a series of incredibly high and fast [[tsunami]]s. These great waves lifted up [[Noah's Ark]] and carried it with them. That the Ark, or indeed any vessel, could survive this event is a tribute to the Ark's divine design and to [[Noah]]'s innate skill as a shipwright.

Most of the water thus released washed over all the land areas in a series of incredibly high and fast [[tsunami]]s. These great waves lifted up [[Noah's Ark]] and carried it with them. That the Ark, or indeed any vessel, could survive this event is a tribute to the Ark's divine design and to [[Noah]]'s innate skill as a shipwright.

In addition, this water created a cascade that arced very high in the [[atmosphere]] and fell as rain, for forty days and nights, as the Bible says. This water would reach very high indeed, not only because it had been confined under pressure, but also because the ten-mile-thick crustal plates would "flap" with the water's passage and create pumping action and "water hammer" to drive the water even higher. Brown estimates that one percent of this water, together with vast quantities of mud and rock, achieved [[escape speed]] and persists today as [[comet]]s, [[asteroid]]s, [[meteor]]oids, and the ice deposits that have already been demonstrated on the [[Moon]], the [[planet]] [[Mercury]], and most recently on the [[planet]] [[Mars]]. In addition, many of the ejected rocks may have bombarded the Moon and created many of its present features—although [[Russell Humphreys]]' magnetic-field model, combined with findings from samples returned by the crews of [[Apollo 15]] and [[Apollo 16]], suggest that the Moon was bombarded on two other occasions, neither of which coincided with the Flood. Some organic matter (which undoubtedly even included whole fish and dolphins) must also have been ejected, and indeed organic matter was found in the frozen polar craters on Mercury.

In addition, this water created a cascade that arced very high in the [[atmosphere]] and fell as rain, for forty days and nights, as the Bible says. This water would reach very high indeed, not only because it had been confined under pressure, but also because the ten-mile-thick crustal plates would "flap" with the water's passage and create pumping action and "water hammer" to drive the water even higher. Brown estimates that one percent of this water, together with vast quantities of mud and rock, achieved [[escape speed]] and persists today as [[comet]]s, [[asteroid]]s, [[meteor]]oids, and the ice deposits that have already been demonstrated on the [[Moon]], the [[planet]] [[Mercury]], and most recently on the [[planet]] [[Mars]].

 

In addition, some of the ejected material bombarded the Moon and created many of its present features. But they need not have bombarded the Moon immediately after ejection. [[Russell Humphreys]]' magnetic-field model, combined with findings from samples returned by the crews of [[Apollo 15]] and [[Apollo 16]], suggest that the Moon was bombarded on two other occasions, neither of which coincided with the Flood. More likely: some of the ejecta formed at least two companion [[asteroid]]s: Asteroid 3753 Cruithne, and another, perhaps larger object. And object which, unlike Cruithne, flew in an orbit ''coincident'' with the plane of the ecliptic, instead of significantly inclined from it. That object then passed too close to the Moon and broke apart. Many of the fragments then struck the Moon on one face, creating the lunar "maria" and locking that hemisphere of the Moon to face the Earth permanently. ''In addition,'' two or more fragments of this companion asteroid struck the ''Earth.'' One might in fact have made the [[Arizona]] Meteor Crater. The impacts threw up enough dust to shade some of the lands of the Eastern Hemisphere and disrupt the rain patterns over the sources of the two major tributaries to the [[Nile]] River. If that disruption lasted for seven years, we now have the cause of the Biblical [[Famine in Egypt]].

 

Some organic matter (which undoubtedly even included whole fish and dolphins) must also have been ejected, and indeed organic matter was found in the frozen polar craters on Mercury.

The Americas were shoved violently to the west and opened a gap that persists today as the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. In the process, they formed two north-south mountain ranges (perpendicular to their direction of motion, naturally): the [[Appalachian Mountains]] in the eastern [[United States]], and the [[Rocky Mountains]] and [[Andes Mountains]] to the west of [[North America]] and [[South America]], respectively. To the Far East, the [[Asia]]n continent collided with the land masses of [[Europe]] and created the [[Himalayas]].

The Americas were shoved violently to the west and opened a gap that persists today as the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. In the process, they formed two north-south mountain ranges (perpendicular to their direction of motion, naturally): the [[Appalachian Mountains]] in the eastern [[United States]], and the [[Rocky Mountains]] and [[Andes Mountains]] to the west of [[North America]] and [[South America]], respectively. To the Far East, the [[Asia]]n continent collided with the land masses of [[Europe]] and created the [[Himalayas]].