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Offline Yeti

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Re: Rainbows are full circles
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2024, 10:59:36 AM »
I looked it up, and it's Genesis 2:6: "But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the earth."

That's not quite as detailed as I thought, but it doesn't seem like a stretch to say that there wasn't rain before the flood, on the basis of this statement.
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Offline St Giles

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Re: Rainbows are full circles
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2024, 09:12:14 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on January 31, 2024, 09:50:12 AM
Indeed.  And we know that God sent the rainbow as a sign that He would not destroy the world by Flood anymore.

So, we can presume that something changed at the Flood to cause rainbows, which presumably didn't exist before the Flood?

As to what, who knows?  If one believes the scientific explanation that rainbows are caused by raindrops or moisture in the atmosphere, perhaps the overall humidity of the earth's atmosphere increased after the Flood, since there was definitely a net increase of water on earth.  Or perhaps it has something to do with how the sun shines from within the firmament onto the earth and rainbows are actually caused by some kind of prism effect through the firmament.
I don't think rainbows nor any non rainbow ring of light need a prism effect of the firmament to form. I think the physics of light can accomplish such an effect just from water droplets or ice particles.
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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Rainbows are full circles
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2024, 09:45:14 PM »
St Giles, you miss the point.  Before the Flood, the amount of moisture in the air was (arguably) far, far less than today.  Because, before the Flood, there was no rain.  There was no evaporation, to the degree we have today.  The entire moisture/rain/evaporation system which exists today didn’t exist pre-Flood.  

Ergo, if moisture levels were much, much lower and if it never rained, how would a rainbow happen?  How would anyone see it?
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