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Many years ago our pastor, at the time, took the church youth to see "Dinosaur Adventureland" in Pensacola and I went along as a chaperone. There were lots of goofy "proofs" in his museum including pictures of "mokele mbembe" and the "loch ness monster" . I even met Mr. Hovind himself and heard him griping about taxes. On the way home, when I mentioned some of the junk science to my pastor, he admonished me for it.
Aren't the stars in the firmament? Wouldn't those waters be beyond the stars?
No. The "firmament" is a general term much like our word "sky."
I disagree. The text seems to me to express otherwise. God created a firmament in the midst of the waters and put the sun moon and stars in that firmament. I think Adam could look up at night and see each pinpoint of light in the sky.
I think so too. Adam could see the sun, moon, and stars. How does that negate what I said?
In my view Gen 1 negates what you said, but water vapor in quantities sufficient to have the thermal effects you are describing would be practically opaque.
Uh, no. Water vapor is not mist. Water vapor is oderless, colorless, and invisible to the eye. On a humid day here in south Texas the relative humidity often approaches 100% of saturation, but the air is still perfectly transparent. We pilots refer to this as CAVU (Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited). There is water vapor between your eyes and the computer screen you are looking at, but you can't see the water vapor.
Lol, because it's too thin.Uh, no. Water vapor is not mist. Water vapor is oderless, colorless, and invisible to the eye. On a humid day here in south Texas the relative humidity often approaches 100% of saturation, but the air is still perfectly transparent. We pilots refer to this as CAVU (Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited). There is water vapor between your eyes and the computer screen you are looking at, but you can't see the water vapor.
Yes. The waters below the sky and the waters above the sky. I fail to see the problem.
Probably most but not all.
Two may have been on the ark, but I doubt any could survive 371 days without coming out of the water to rest.
Nope.
I wish!
One of us isn't following. Aren't you saying the sun and moon were outside your theoretical vapor canopy?
Yes. The vapor canopy was probably somewhere in the vicinity of the tropopause.
The fact that we still have them should answer your question.
Well that's the difficulty, then. If the firmament is the division between the waters above and the waters below, and the sun, moon and stars are in the firmament, then your vapor canopy is somewhere beyond the stars.