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And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 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.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:10-12

Merciful goodness. Would you look at that. After a careful reading of the text, we find that not only were there fountains of the deep but that it was a great deep. At one time these were joined but now they are not anymore. The words broken up indicates these hidden fountains erupted violently and with great force. Then too were the windows of heaven opened in a way that had never been seen before. Two things happened then that needed an ark. There was a flood come up from below. Then there was also heaven opened which allowed the water to pour down from above. This, they called rain as it is still called even to this day. Perhaps a rain for forty days and nights isn't enough to do too much damage. But combine that with a flood of water coming up from the ground, and you soon have everything changed.

Remember the shape of the lands talked about before? They all seemed to fit together neatly, either touching or with water surrounding them, buffering the sides. Therefore, they were still somewhat close together though not very. Either scenario is a whole lot better than the wildly massive distance they floated off to. See, when land comes unmoored from a foundation or lets say water floods their foundations, two things can happen. One, the land can become rotated or stretched from its' original position. Two, the stretching and movement can change the center mass of the earth. This is going to be very important as we will see later. Think of it this way. If I put a hoarde of elephants into one room, with nothing else in the rest of the house, you might expect it to cave way.

Let's try it first. Put everyone in as small a space as you can manage, quick. Now look at the rest of the room. Everything's fine, isn't it? That's because houses and other places are usually built to handle the load. Except, what if they're not. Then they will fall. This is why you need to start off with a very strong foundation. Without that, everything else can quickly fall in on itself. Then again, if everything was very top heavy, this would cause a collapse too would it not. The ground would sink in on itself and everything on top with it being unable to handle the load. When you're thinking of the earth, the same thing holds true. Sinkholes, as we know them today, are formed by instability in the ground beneath along with a heaviness in the top of the land. These two combine to create a cave-in of the surface or a collapse. At the same time, if nothing is attached to the ground underneath at a certain depth, it will all just float off, won't it? This kind of thought begets the belief that at a certain level under the earth, everything is just ocean. In fact, it's kind of a hidden ocean underneath the earth, because no one has ever seen it. At the same time though, it's presence can be measured.

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The bottom is called a foundation, and each successive level is a floor with the top part being a roof to keep the rain and weather off. The earth once probably looked something a bit like this. If one piece of land got unmoored or simply floated off, Heaven only knows where it could go. Those original four rivers made four distinct tears in the map. In my opinion, that's a proof for what happened long ago. Now what do you think?