Baby boomers may remember this "just-so story" described in the popular Time-Life book series (that includes a veiled swipe at the Biblical explanation while bowing to naturalism).
Finally the day came when the falling raindrops did not hiss away in
Q: Do secular scientists have any better ideas today?
"The origin of the water in the oceans is unclear" states the University of New South Wales School of Environmental Sciences.
For decades many planetary scientists believed that the ocean's water may have come from a rain of comets (so to speak) laden with water. But a 1999 Caltech study by a cosmochemist and his team threw a wet blanket on this theory when they measured significant amounts of "heavy water" (HDO) from the Hale-Bopp comet. This type of water contains deuterium, a heavier isotope of hydrogen having one neutron and one proton in the nucleus.
*If the "oceans-from-comets" theory is correct, our oceans should be deuterium-rich. They are not.
Q: What do creationists say regarding the origin of the oceans?
A: We look to the Biblical model and find that our planet began cool and covered with water (see Genesis 1:2) as opposed to the secular model stating it was molten rock with no water!
--On the third day of creation, the waters under the heaven were gathered into one place which God called Seas (see Genesis 1:9-10).
--Centuries later, at the Flood, He again covered the land with water, until the fountains of the deep were closed and the water receded steadily from the earth.
--As the fountains closed, the ocean floor sank, forming new and much deeper ocean basins (such as the 36,163 foot deep Mariana Trench), permitting the continents to drain and emerge from the waters."
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And God said,
Let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear:
and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:9,10
