Questions and Answers
(excerpt from "Ang Dating Daan" TV Program "Itanong mo kay Soriano portion.)

Question:

This is about the time of Noah. Wasn’t it that the earth was engulfed by a huge amount of water? Where did that volume of water come from?

Answer:

Genesis speaks of two places of water … (1:6-8) “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.”

The very immediate heaven that we see has water above it, and under it. “Under” refers to the earth, the ground. There is also water up in space. The space is made up of 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, and one percent of all other gases.

Therefore, oxygen and hydrogen are abundant in our atmosphere. And if you combine two molecules of hydrogen with one molecule of oxygen, the result is water.

Put some ice in a glass. After a while, there would be moisture outside the glass. That is because the molecules of hydrogen had combined with the molecule of oxygen. During the time of Noah, there was huge volume of water which did not only come from the atmosphere but also from under the earth (Genesis 7:11). “In the sixth 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,”

The fountains of the great deep were broken. Earth has many layers. Isn’t it that it has a core? After that is the aquifer layer, or the chaos layer of the earth. This layer is made up of strong rocks that hold and control the core. Next to this is the water. The aquifer was the one that was destroyed during the time of Noah. This is why, today, scientists have discovered faults underground.