The Far East (Religion)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, September 18, 2010, 10:09 (4959 days ago) @ xeno6696

As for your other question on how the writers of the Bible had access to that information; cultural transmission beginning at a time before the founding of the Sumerian religion--the earliest known culture with a flood myth.--A misunderstanding on what I meant by how they had access to that information. I am not asking where they would have known about the flood myth, but rather, how they would have known that there was water deep deep in the Earth beyond their technological ability to detect at the time. -
Secondly, I noticed a flaw in the article you sent.(Good article by the way) In the petroleum industry, oil is found in resevoirs that pretty much mirror what was described in the article, which is to say tiny droplets are trapped in the rocks. Yet we are able to drill and pull out thousands of barrells a day from a single rock encased resevoir. How we manage that is called, in the field at least, frac jobs. High pressure sand encased in a chemical specifically designed to break down at a certain temp and pressure. The pressure fractures the rock, and forces the sand into the cracks where the chemical wrapping becomes water and draines out leaving the sand in place. The oil then begins to flow quite rapidly in most cases.-Knowing that it is not only possible, but routine, to perform this type of procedure in the crust, makes me wonder if it could happen in the mantle. All that would be necessary is for that rock containing the water to receive enough of an impact to fracture. If the temp/pressure was high enough, water could be forced out of the same subduction zones that transported it downwords to begin with. Which is to say that in theory there is a way to eject the water without ejecting the mantle at all, and we do it every day in the crust.