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Pre-flood physics?

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Dr Jack
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12-18-2003 9:53 AM

According to the Genesis story, after the flood God placed the first rainbow in the sky as a sign of a new covenant that he would never flood the earth again.
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Now, one can reasonable conclude therefore that there were no rainbows until after the flood. How can this be?
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Could it have never rained? No, it rained during the flood.
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So we are left with just two possibilities - that light didn't refract before the end of the flood, or that water didn't refract, reflect or otherwise was altered so as not to produce a rainbow. Either way it requires a pretty radical alteration of the laws of physics.
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So then, literalists, what is your explanation? Is there another way? Or did life somehow go on just the same in this wildly different world?
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12-22-2003 5:04 PM

Back on subject?
Could I post a vain request that we return to the topic originally posed. Please explain how the physcis allowed for no rainbows?
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01-05-2004 5:44 AM 		Reply to: Message 9 by Buzsaw
12-20-2003 3:52 PM

The rainbow was produced by God, but it was the atmosphere he changed to do it, not that he couldn't have done it anyhow, but it was a result of the postflood atmospheric conditions that it cam about. Thus it is a natural phenomenon which could not have occured under preflood contitions.
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Sorry for the delay in responding; christmas holidays and all that.
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You're telling me rain and sun never occured at the same time? In all the years before the flood, not once? How can this possibly be?
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01-06-2004 4:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 78 by Rei
01-05-2004 12:42 PM

So there's no sun-light for what 1,500-2,000 years and everything grows just fine? Er....
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