Published by Why do we see rainbows – II?
I think I have the answer. But in the fist instance I would like to hear from readers answers for the following question before I give out my views.
Scientists say that we see rainbows immediately after the rains due to the refraction phenomenon. Water particles do remain in the air and when the sun rays pass through them they split into 7 colours, the particles acting as a kind of prism.. That’s what we learnt in school.
Then, why don’t see rainbows every time there is rain? We don’t. We see it only some times. Why?
Next, why is a rainbow always in a semi circular shape across the horizon and why not right over the head or somewhere else?.
Here is my answer
Strangely nobody has given an answer to my question above published on
9 Aug 09 and here is my explanation.
There is no scientific explanation at all for this phenomenon at all, which occurs only some time and never after every spell of rain, and the semi circular shape even if we accept the refraction theory.
According to the Holy Bible, the Lord God destroyed the Earth through flood caused by 40 days of continuous rain. No human being or animal or bird survived this deluge except the family of Noah, the only righteous person God found on the Earth at that time. God must have felt sorry that He had crushed the lives He created some centuries back.
While He told the 8 surviving human beings [Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives] to multiply and inhabit the Earth along with the animals and birds Noah taken with him inside the Ark , God had also made a covenant with Noah and a promise to Himself never to destroy the Earth by an universal flood. To remind Himself of this covenant, He ordered a rainbow in a semicircular figure to appear in the sky occasionally after the rains.
Please read Genesis 9: 12 – 17.
Incidentally, according to a prophesy the present Earth will be destroyed again at some later date which will be by Fire and not flood.[ II Peter 3:10] There will be a new Earth and new Heaven after this devastation.
