Gaines Johnson is presenting a very simple and long-understood explanation for how most geysers work. But for most geysers, the chambers in which the water is replenished are relatively shallow – perhaps a few hundred feet in depth (Probes lowered into Old Faithful reached down less than 100 feet.)
But let me turn to another Christian I already mentioned who looked at the physics relating to the Biblical “fountains of the deep” – Walt Brown. He says:
At a pressure of one atmosphere—about 1.01 bar or 14.7 psi (pounds per square inch)—water boils at a temperature slightly above 212°F (100°C). As pressure increases, the boiling point rises. At a pressure of 3,200 psi (220.6 bars) the boiling temperature is 705°F (374°C). Above this pressure-temperature combination, called the critical point, water is supercritical and cannot boil.
Drawing on what he then says, if a crack somehow made it down to some huge body of free-standing water at a depth of 300 miles, there would not be a geyser of water, there would be a jet of superheated gasses so hot and violent that it would be a mixture of molecules and single atoms. The escape velocity would be enormous, and the walls of the crack would be stripped away and carried up like ice cream behind the exhaust of a 747 jumbo jet engine at full power. (In fact Walt offers this as an explanation for why the near side of the moon has a higher crater density than the far side. The ejecta is thrown clear out of the earth's atmosphere.) Does that sound like Old Faithful to you?
You just can’t exhibit the Christian decency to avoid using the term “evolutionist” as a derogatory descriptor to be applied to anyone in science you want to disparage. Since your mind is incapable of looking at science objectively, let me inform you that old estimates about the volume of groundwater, inaccurate as they might be, came primarily from geologists and geophysicists - and those scientists did what you resolutely refuse to do, evaluate the available evidence on its own merits.
As I alluded to in a recent post, directly investigating what is in the interior of the earth is almost impossible due to the pressure and temperatures encountered only a few miles down. An enormous amount of study, including the article that you indirectly linked to, has led to substantial revisions in previous ideas. That’s called – science. It means being open to having to revise your ideas as new data becomes available. I know that is almost anathema for those who can’t tolerate any degree of ambiguity in what they personally believe the Bible to say. If you are unwilling to admit that ideas you once held might be in error, then forever sealing yourself deep in a well-equipped underground bunker might insulate you from actually learning and advancing.
It probably is. I too would be really excited if I were a Christian seeing the last vestiges of a scientifically bankrupt creation story being stripped away.
In light of how silly your Bible Genesis story has been seen to be so far, I am not much concerned with what the Bible tells us. I am far more interested in what the evidence shows. And if the deep subterranean water is now vastly less than it was pre-flood (and presuming the water from the “fountains of the deep” stayed on the earth), then were the pre-flood oceans nearly empty? Any scientific evidence to back that whopper of a story up?
And, the article you linked to says:
At the end of the flood, the Bible again accounts for the fountains of the deep being ‘stopped’ and the water returning back into the ground
You really ought to keep your story straight with what your article says.
