Humphreys wrote, “Another biblical problem with the canopy model is Psalm 148:1-4, which mentions the ‘waters above.

In other words, God pulled the upper waters some 20 million light-years away from Earth-bound waters below, leaving a firmament of heaven between. Russell Humphreys formulated a new model that placed the firmament waters beyond the farthest galaxies! 3 Humphreys suggested that God miraculously stretched out the heavens on Day Two of the creation week. Vardiman tested the vapor canopy, physicist Dr. His results required the sun to emit only 25 percent of its current intensity to keep Earth’s inhabitants from basically boiling. When he input enough water vapor for the first 40 days of rain during the Flood year, he found that Earth’s temperatures would have soared due to an intense greenhouse effect. Atmospheric physicist Larry Vardiman used climate modeling software to construct a virtual vapor canopy. An atmospheric vapor wrap gave a place for the waters “above the firmament.” This canopy’s greenhouse effect might have made the whole pre-Flood world tropical and helped people live for hundreds of years.īut holes appeared in the theory.

The vapor canopy theory helped explain why God separated the Genesis 1:1 formless mass of water into two bodies, one above and another below, with a firmament between them. However, later tests led researchers away from this model. Early ICR scientists hypothesized that the “waters which were above the firmament” 1 implied a canopy of water vapor that covered the earth before the Flood.

To Go Beneath the Water by K.L. Miller