CrackerJack writes:
Doesn't the Bible say that God put a rainbow in the sky after Noah came out of the ark? And don't rainbows typically only form where there is rain or water vapor in the air? If so, that seems to indicate that it was raining when Noah came out of the ark, and so why wouldn't it have been raining the whole time he was on the ark? The initial deluge may have lasted for 40 days but certainly you can't expect that suddenly it then completely stopped raining and not a single drop fell for the rest of the voyage. Unless, of course you believe in a God and that he miraculously stopped all rain on the earth during that time. If the flood story is true, then scientifcally speaking, you would expect a lot of the flood waters to evaporate into the atmosphere and return to earth as rain during this period. Disbelieve the flood story all you want, but your arguement that there would have been a lack of fresh water just doesn't seem to hold any water.
You need both rain and sunlight to get rainbows. I'd imagine that the clouds pretty much covered the 40 days.
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