There is enough water now on the earth and in its rocky frame to make
an hundred terrific deluges, every one of which could drown the world
of living beings.
In early days man believed there was a great deep on high. The sources
of the deluge were “broken up,” and never again can the world be
destroyed from that source. If the fountains of the deep were on the
earth or in the seas then they are not “broken up.” If they were in
the clouds, they were not, for that source still exists. Then we must
believe that they came from beyond the clouds.
With the fountain of the great deep placed on high--the veritable
waters above the firmament--we can readily understand why the “windows
of heaven were opened,” and why “all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up.” The rainbow proclaims these facts around the circuit
of the earth.
How does it happen that the author of Genesis relates these facts
with such harmonious accord, with all the conditions which an Annular
arrangement of water necessitated, if the idea was not familiar to his
mind?
The presence of upper vapors entering the atmosphere on their way to
the earth by the way of the polar regions necessitated an atmosphere of
greater buoyancy and power, and this necessitated greater bodily frame.
Hence it is said: “There were giants in those days.” There were giants
among animals as well as men.