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In the verses quoted above, the Book of Genesis is talking about the creation of the atmosphere. We agreed that the early earth was surrounded by water. We are here told that God separated this water into two masses of water that have the atmosphere between them. The water below the firmament is the water that remained surrounding the early earth. The water above the firmament, we really don’t know what this is. God doesn’t have to tell us all his secrets. But there are theories. God called the firmament “heaven”, this is the first heaven or the atmosphere that surrounds the earth. THE CANOPY THEORY: The vapour canopy is an idea adopted by some creationists which states that before the Great Flood the earth was surrounded by a “canopy” of water in either liquid, solid, or gas form, and that the water from the canopy contributed greatly to the flood waters. The earliest water canopy proposal was proposed by Isaac Vail in 1874, but the idea came to prominence in 1961 with the publication of the book The Genesis Flood by Henry Morris and John Whitcomb. 1 Firmament= Heaven= atmosphere Water above the heaven Earth Water below the heaven (ocean covering the early Earth) 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_canopy 45
That the firmament refers to the atmosphere, is evident from Genesis 1:20: “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” Genesis 2:5-6 tells us that no rain fell on the earth before the flood, but the plants of the Earth were watered from a mist from the earth: “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.” In Genesis 7:11, speaking about the flood in Noah’s time, we are told: “and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” Proponents of the Canopy theory claim that this canopy of water above the heavens was the source of the rain that lasted for forty days. 1 Evolutionists and atheists scoffed at the theory and heaped scorn on creationists who believed in it. All you have to do is go to the internet and type canopy on Google then click. I am not going to waste your time by quoting the abusive comments of atheists on this theory. Recent scientific discoveries, however, have given a lot of weight to this theory as we shall see in the following: THE HYDROXYL PROBLEM: Scientists were puzzled by unexpected higher levels of Hydroxyl (OH) in the mesosphere: The global distribution of hydroxyl (OH) in the middle atmosphere was recently measured by the Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation (MAHRSI) on a satellite deployed and retrieved by the space shuttle. During 75 orbits, MAHRSI acquired 1800 daytime limb scans of the OH ultraviolet solar resonance fluorescence intensity. Each limb scan extends over the altitude region from 30 to 90 km and across 10° of latitude between 53°S and 63°N. OH number densities were 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_canopy 46
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