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Originally Posted by barpman
Alright then, let's assume that I don't actually know the height of Mt. Everest. Can we agree, however, that it is at least 100 meters high? Or that there is some geological entity in the world at least that high? I have climbed things that big. Even if the largest mountain in the world was only 100 meters high, that would still necessitate around 100 inches of rain per day.
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Well, I'm glad that you're a reasonable man who can recognize when he's made an absurd claim. 100 m (or, as we like to say in America, 328 feet) is a much more reasonable estimate of Mt. Everest's height.
Now-- how deep is the Red Sea? Well, unlike the height of mountains, you can measure the depth of seas with weighted ropes. It turns out that the Red Sea is 8200 feet at its deepest. If God could part the Red Sea, surely He could muster swinging a little bit of extra water over some 328-foot high hill. Depending on His desires, the rain wouldn't have to be all that thick; there's plenty enough water in our oceans to cover the whole earth, properly redistributed.