Posted: Feb 23, 2012 3:54 pm
by Rumraket
Calilasseia wrote:
Lion IRC wrote:
MrFungus420 wrote:
Lion IRC wrote:

They are supposed to laugh at the one about Jonah


Not really.

They would be laughing because the change in salinity in the waters of the world would kill almost everything that lives in water.


Change?
Are you saying flood = more salt out of nowhere or flood = salt magically disappearing?


Oh for fuck's sake, this has to be one of the most retarded answers I've ever seen. Did you not learn anything in basic chemistry lessons? Such as what happens to the concentration of dissolved substances when you dilute them? Only covering the planet with an extra nine kilometres of water would dilute the oceans substantially. As a result, the salinity of the oceans would drop to the point where it impacted fatally upon the osmoregulatory systems of coral reef fishes and invertebrates, amongst others. On the other hand, being subject to a rapid net increase in salinity, because of the wholesale deluging of the freshwater bodies of the planet in rising seawater during the early stages of the fantasy "global flood", would exterminate a large number of freshwater aquatic organisms, including virtually all the Ostariophysan fishes, several species of which are current inmates of my aquaria.

In addition, not only would all the freshwater aquatic plants be destroyed by salinity changes, they would also be destroyed by finding themselves under an extra nine kilometres of water. Light only penetrates the oceans to a maximum depth of around 500 metres. The photic zone, which is the region within which photosynthesis can take place, extends to only 200 metres. This cutting off from sunlight would also kill the symbiotic zooxanthellae living within coral polyps, and as a consequence, all the world's reef building corals would have been exterminated. That all these taxa are still alive, tells us your fantasy flood never happened.


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