How did the vapor belt affect the sun's rays before the flood?
Before the flood, the vapor belt shielded the earth from the damaging part of the sun's rays and diffused them rather than allowing direct sunlight. The rays were bent and spread around the globe, creating a greenhouse effect, tropical temperatures from pole to pole, and constant calm weather without rain.
Les teaches that the vapor belt functioned like a greenhouse effect, shielding the earth from the damaging part of the sun's rays. With that moisture in place, sunlight rays were bent and diffused, much like a spoon appears bent in a glass of water. There was no direct sunbeam hitting the planet; instead, the light was diffused everywhere. Consequently, the planet was tropical from pole to pole. Archaeological evidence in northern Siberia, where tropical vegetation and animals were found frozen in deep ice, supports a once-constant tropical temperature. Les explains that this vapor belt created a greenhouse effect, giving the pre-flood world one temperature. It never rained; it was watered from beneath. With sunlight diffused around the globe rather than hitting directly, there was no shift in temperatures or increase in atmospheric pressures, producing calm, constant pre-flood weather.