"Prior to the flood how close was the earth to the sun?..." Same distance it is now; since there wasn't just ONE big flood, but many, many regional 'floods' [seawater breakthrough to the Black Sea; swift rising of sea levels due to glacial melting; catastrophic glacial ice-dam collapses...]which have resulted in having many, many 'flood' myths...
Plus the idiocy of most humans - placing their habitations too damm close to streams and rivers...
If the earth were any closer to the sun, it would have approached the effects of Venus' orbit - hot enough to melt lead. And your point in bringing up the distance of the earth from the sun was???
"Scientist believe that at one time there was a water canopy around the earth...." No. No reliable scientific studies have indicated that there was ever a "water canopy" around the earth...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=931Dg4yM368
"Now let's say God use a giant ice ball to break the water canopy. Thus causing craters on the earth...." Ever heard of Tunguska? That was - apparently - either a non-impact above-ground explosion or - possibly - a piece of a comet vaporizing close to the earth's surface. [Those are two of the main theories of astronomical origin for the Tunguska blast...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVof7adq4s
It destroyed Siberian forest over an 830-square-mile area. Scientists estimate that the object that caused this destruction was only 20 - 40 yards across... If "Jehovah" had used a "giant ice ball", it would have caused MAJOR damage to the earth - not to mention the subsequent damage from the "canopy of water" falling to earth at the point of impact!!
"But in doing so he had to have the arth closer to the sun...." What, do you think that stray ECO's are only found "closer to the sun"??? Boy, I'm glad YOU"RE not the one looking for NEOs...
RoadRunner, DUUuuuuude, you're not 'smoking things", you're just - in Sheriff Hank Keough's words [in "Lake Placid"] - "mental"...
Zid
