Pre-flood vapor canopy would have made world Edenic
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Claim
In the pre-Flood earth, the vapor canopy, a translucent layer of water vapor above the atmosphere, caused a greenhouse effect that kept the climate moderate all over the planet, minimized winds and storms, and prevented rainfall.
Source
- Vail, Isaac Newton, 1912. The Earth's Annular System, 4th ed. Pasadena: The Annular World Co.
- Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 210-211.
Responses
- It is true that water vapor is a 'greenhouse gas', meaning that it can indeed act as a barrier to prevent heat from radiating off into space. Unfortunately for Flood-believing YECs, however, water vapor is sufficiently effective as a 'greenhouse gas' that a vapor canopy which contained an entire Flood's-worth of water would result in the Earth possessing a Hellish climate, with air pressure of hundreds of atmospheres and temperature of hundreds of degrees. This is not merely 'evolutionist dogma'; the Noah's Flood—what about all that water? page in the Answers in Genesis website says, in a 'sidebar', "A vapor canopy holding more than 7 feet (two meters) of rain would cause the earth's surface to be intolerably hot, so a vapor canopy could not have been a significant source of the floodwaters."
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Fallacies contained in this claim
- Just So Story (made up to fit the quote)
External Links
- Matson, Dave, 1994. Water and Vapor and Noah's Flood. [1] [2]
- Morton, Glenn R., 2000. The Demise and Fall of the Water Vapor Canopy: A Fallen Creationist Idea. [3]
- Farrar, Paul, and Bill Hyde, n.d. The Vapor Canopy Hypothesis Holds No Water. [4]
References
- Matson, Dave, 1994. (see above).
- Morton, Glenn R., 1979. Can the Canopy Hold Water? Creation Research Society Quarterly 16(3): 164-169.
- Morton, 2000. (see above).
Related claims
- There was no death or decay before the Fall
- Pre-flood vapor canopy would have extended human lifetimes
- It never rained before the flood
- Life is deteriorating
