Scientist discover water in the earth mantle...evidence of the deluge?

"'It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large amount of water that's trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth,' said Graham Pearson, lead study author and geochemist at the University of Alberta in Canada. the findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature."

"'It translates into a very, very large mass of water, approaching the sort of mass of water that's present in all the world's oceans,' Pearson told Live Science's Our Amazing Planet."

You can read the Fox News article

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Hmm. An ocean's worth of water is hidden in the mantle of the earth. The theory, it seems, is that it got there because of tectonic subduction in the bottom of the oceans. This means, I think, that the surface of the earth once had a whole lot more water on it than it does now.

Funny, seems like I read about something like that in the Bible...

Genesis 6:17-20 

"The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep."

Genesis 7:1-5 

"But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,  and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains ofArarat.  And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. "