I think that the young-earthers should
consider what their theory means in relation to meteor impacts. Consider
what one 300 m rock would mean:
"A huge meteor with the destructive power of 3,000 hydrogen bombs
will skim past the Earth today in a cosmic encounter that has alarmed
astronomers.
"Codenamed 1996 JA1, the 300 metre-wide chunk of rock was discovered
only last Tuesday, suggesting that humanity may have just a few days'
warning of disaster if a meteor turns out to be on a collision
course."Robert Matthews, "Meteor pass will be a squeaker,"
Calgary Herald, Sunday, May 19, 1996, p. 1
Now, consider that we geoscientists have found lots of meteor craters in
the fossil record. Many of them are much, much bigger than the crater
which would be formed by that 300-m diameter chunk of rock mentioned
above. Below is a list of the meteor craters we have found in the fossil
record. They are not all the same geologic age and this means that they
would have come in at slightly different periods during the flood. But the
amazing thing is that most YECs who believe in a one-year global flood
don't know that their belief system requires accepting that the earth was
literally bombarded with millions of megatons of meteoric impacts during
the period of time that the geologic column was laid down.
The old earther doesn't have a problem with this because he believes that
the craters were deposited over 545 million years. But the YEC believes
that all these craters were the remnants of impacts which occurred in only
1 year. Think what the ride Noah and company had with such large meteors
raining down on their head!!!
Here is the list of meteor craters found in the geologic column. this is
only a partial list--more comments below:
Terrestrial Impact Crater List
Acraman, Australia
Location: 32°1'S, 135°27'E
Diameter: 160.000 km
Age: 570.00 million years
Ames
Location: 36°15'N, 98°10'W
Diameter: 16.000 km
Age: 470.00 +- 30.00 million years
Amguid
Location: 26°5'N, 4°23'E
Diameter: 0.450 km
Age: 100,000 years
Aouelloul, Mauritania
Location: 20°15'N, 12°41'W
Diameter: 0.390 km
Age: 3.10 +- 0.30 million years
Araguainha Dome
Location: 16°46'S, 52°59'W
Diameter: 40.000 km
Age: 249.00 +- 19.00 million years
Avak
Location: 71°15'N, 156°38'W
Diameter: 12.000 km
Age: 100.00 +- 5.00 million years
Azuara, Spain
Location: 41°10'N, 0°55'W
Diameter: 30.000 km
Age: 130.00 million years
B.P. Structure
Location: 25°19'N, 24°20'E
Diameter: 2.800 km
Age: 120.00 million years
Barringer, Arizona
Location: 35°2'N, 111°1'W
Diameter: 1.186 km
Age: 49,000 years
Beaverhead
Location: 44°36'N, 113°0'W
Diameter: 60.000 km
Age: 600.00 million years
Bee Bluff
Location: 29°2'N, 99°51'W
Diameter: 2.400 km
Age: 40.00 million years
Beyenchime-Salaatin
Location: 71°50'N, 123°30'E
Diameter: 8.000 km
Age: 65.00 million years
Bigach
Location: 48°30'N, 82°0'E
Diameter: 7.000 km
Age: 6.00 +- 3.00 million years
Boltysh, Ukraine
Location: 48°45'N, 32°10'E
Diameter: 25.000 km
Age: 88.00 +- 3.00 million years
Bosumtwi, Ghana
Location: 6°32'N, 1°25'W
Diameter: 10.500 km
Age: 1.30 +- 0.2 million years
Boxhole, North Territory, Australia
Location: 22°37'S, 135°12'E
Diameter: 0.170 km
Age: 30,000 years
Brent, Ontario, Canada
Location: 46°5'N, 78°29'W
Diameter: 3.800 km
Age: 450.00 +- 30.00 million years
Campo Del Cielo, Argentina
Location: 27°38'S, 61°42'W
Diameter: 0.050 km
Age: 0 years
Carswell, Saskatchewan, Canada
Location: 58°27'N, 109°30'W
Diameter: 39.000 km
Age: 115.00 +- 10.00 million years
Charlevoix, Canada
Location: 47°32'N, 70°18'W
Diameter: 54.000 km
Age: 357.00 +- 15.00 million years
Chicxulub, Mexico
Location: 21°20'N, 89°30'W
Diameter: 300.000 km
Age: 64.98 +- 0.05 million years
Chiyli
Location: 49°10'N, 57°51'E
Diameter: 5.500 km
Age: 46.00 +- 7.00 million years
Clearwater Lake East, Quebec, Canada
Location: 56°5'N, 74°7'W
Diameter: 22.000 km
Age: 290.00 +- 20.00 million years
Clearwater Lake West, Quebec, Canada
Location: 56°13'N, 74°30'W
Diameter: 32.000 km
Age: 290.00 +- 20.00 million years
Connolly Basin, Australia
Location: 23°32'S, 124°45'E
Diameter: 9.000 km
Age: 60.00 million years
Crooked Creek, Missouri
Location: 37°50'N, 91°23'W
Diameter: 7.000 km
Age: 320.00 +- 80.00 million years
Dalgaranga, West Australia
Location: 27°45'S, 117°5'E
Diameter: 0.021 km
Age: 30,000 years
Decaturville, Missouri
Location: 37°54'N, 92°43'W
Diameter: 6.000 km
Age: 300.00 million years
Deep Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada
Location: 56°24'N, 102°59'W
Diameter: 13.000 km
Age: 100.00 +- 50.00 million years
Dellen, Sweden
Location: 61°55'N, 16°39'E
Diameter: 15.000 km
Age: 110.00 +- 2.70 million years
Des Plaines, Illinois
Location: 42°3'N, 87°52'W
Diameter: 8.000 km
Age: 280.00 million years
Dobele
Location: 56°35'N, 23°15'E
Diameter: 4.500 km
Age: 300.00 +- 35.00 million years
Eagle Butte
Location: 49°42'N, 110°35'W
Diameter: 19.000 km
Age: 65.00 million years
El'Gygytgyn, Russia
Location: 67°30'N, 172°5'E
Diameter: 18.000 km
Age: 3.50 +- 0.50 million years
Flynn Creek, Tennessee
Location: 36°17'N, 85°40'W
Diameter: 3.550 km
Age: 360.00 +- 20.00 million years
Garnos
Location: 60°39'N, 9°0'E
Diameter: 5.000 km
Age: 500.00 +- 10.00 million years
Glasford, Illinois
Location: 40°36'N, 89°47'W
Diameter: 4.000 km
Age: 430.00 million years
Glover Bluff
Location: 43°58'N, 89°32'W
Diameter: 3.000 km
Age: 500.00 million years
Goat Paddock
Location: 18°20'S, 126°40'E
Diameter: 5.100 km
Age: 50.00 million years
Gosses Bluff, North Territory, Australia
Location: 23°50'S, 132°19'E
Diameter: 22.000 km
Age: 142.50 +- 0.50 million years
Gow Lake, Canada
Location: 56°27'N, 104°29'W
Diameter: 4.000 km
Age: 250.00 million years
Gusev
Location: 48°21'N, 40°14'E
Diameter: 3.500 km
Age: 65.00 million years
Haughton, Canada
Location: 75°22'N, 89°41'W
Diameter: 20.5 km
Age: 21.5 +- 1.00 million years
Haviland
Location: 37°35'N, 99°10'W
Diameter: 0.015 km
Age: 0 years
Henbury, North Territory, Australia
Location: 24°35'S, 133°9'E
Diameter: 0.157 km
Age: 10,000 years
Holleford, Ontario, Canada
Location: 44°28'N, 76°38'W
Diameter: 2.350 km
Age: 550.00 +- 100.00 million years
Ile Rouleau
Location: 50°41'N, 73°53'W
Diameter: 4.000 km
Age: 300.00 million years
Ilumetsa
Location: 57°58'N, 25°25'E
Diameter: 0.080 km
Age: 0 years
Ilyinets
Location: 49°6'N, 29°12'E
Diameter: 4.500 km
Age: 395.00 +- 5.00 million years
Janisjarvi, Russia
Location: 61°58'N, 30°55'E
Diameter: 14.000 km
Age: 698.00 +- 22.00 million years
Kaalijarvi
Location: 58°24'N, 22°40'E
Diameter: 0.110 km
Age: 0 +- 0 years
Kaluga, Russia
Location: 54°30'N, 36°15'E
Diameter: 15.000 km
Age: 380.00 +- 10.00 million years
Kamensk
Location: 48°20'N, 40°15'E
Diameter: 25.000 km
Age: 65.00 +- 2.00 million years
Kara, Russia
Location: 69°5'N, 64°18'E
Diameter: 65.000 km
Age: 73.00 +- 3.00 million years
Kara-Kul, USSR
Location: 39°1'N, 73°27'E
Diameter: 52.000 km
Age: 25.00 million years
Kardla
Location: 58°59'N, 22°40'E
Diameter: 4.000 km
Age: 455.00 million years
Karla
Location: 54°54'N, 48°0'E
Diameter: 12.000 km
Age: 10.00 million years
Kelly West
Location: 19°56'S, 133°57'E
Diameter: 10.000 km
Age: 550.00 million years
Kentland, Indiana
Location: 40°45'N, 87°24'W
Diameter: 13.000 km
Age: 300.00 million years
Kursk
Location: 51°40'N, 36°0'E
Diameter: 5.500 km
Age: 250.00 +- 80.00 million years
Lac Couture, Quebec, Canada
Location: 60°8'N, 75°20'W
Diameter: 8.000 km
Age: 430.00 +- 25.00 million years
Lac La Moinerie, Canada
Location: 57°26'N, 66°37'W
Diameter: 8.000 km
Age: 400.00 +- 50.00 million years
Lappajarvi, Finland
Location: 63°9'N, 23°42'E
Diameter: 17.000 km
Age: 77.30 +- 0.40 million years
Lawn Hill
Location: 18°40'S, 138°39'E
Diameter: 18.000 km
Age: 515.00 million years
Liverpool
Location: 12°24'S, 134°3'E
Diameter: 1.600 km
Age: 150.00 +- 70.00 million years
Lockne
Location: 63°0'N, 14°48'E
Diameter: 7.000 km
Age: 540.00 +- 10.00 million years
Logancha, Russia
Location: 65°30'N, 95°48'E
Diameter: 20.000 km
Age: 25.00 +- 20.00 million years
Logoisk
Location: 54°12'N, 27°48'E
Diameter: 17.000 km
Age: 40.00 +- 5.00 million years
Lonar, India
Location: 19°59'N, 76°31'E
Diameter: 1.830 km
Age: 52,000 +- 10,000 years
Macha
Location: 59°59'N, 118°0'E
Diameter: 0.300 km
Age: 10,000 years
Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada
Location: 51°23'N, 68°42'W
Diameter: 100.000 km
Age: 212.00 +- 1.00 million years
Manson, Iowa
Location: 42°35'N, 94°31'W
Diameter: 35.000 km
Age: 65.70 +- 1.00 million years
Marquez
Location: 31°17'N, 96°18'W
Diameter: 22.000 km
Age: 58.00 +- 2.00 million years
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Location: 36°37'N, 83°44'W
Diameter: 6.000 km
Age: 300.00 million years
Mien, Sweden
Location: 56°25'N, 14°52'E
Diameter: 9.000 km
Age: 121.00 +- 2.30 million years
Misarai
Location: 54°0'N, 23°54'E
Diameter: 5.000 km
Age: 395.00 +- 145.00 million years
Mishina Gora
Location: 58°40'N, 28°0'E
Diameter: 4.000 km
Age: 360.00 million years
Mistastin, Labrador, Canada
Location: 55°53'N, 63°18'W
Diameter: 28.000 km
Age: 38.00 +- 4.00 million years
Montagnais
Location: 42°53'N, 64°13'W
Diameter: 45.000 km
Age: 50.50 +- 0.76 million years
Monturaqui, Chile
Location: 23°56'S, 68°17'W
Diameter: 0.460 km
Age: 1.00 million years
Morasko
Location: 52°29'N, 16°54'E
Diameter: 0.100 km
Age: 10,000 years
New Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Location: 61°17'N, 73°40'W
Diameter: 3.440 km
Age: 1.40 +- 0.10 million years
Nicholson Lake, Canada
Location: 62°40'N, 102°41'W
Diameter: 12.500 km
Age: 400.00 million years
Oasis
Location: 24°35'N, 24°24'E
Diameter: 11.500 km
Age: 120.00 million years
Obolon
Location: 49°30'N, 32°55'E
Diameter: 15.000 km
Age: 215.00 +- 25.00 million years
Odessa, Texas
Location: 31°45'N, 102°29'W
Diameter: 0.168 km
Age: 50,000 years
Ouarkziz, Algeria
Location: 29°0'N, 7°33'W
Diameter: 3.500 km
Age: 70.00 million years
Piccaninny
Location: 17°32'S, 128°25'E
Diameter: 7.000 km
Age: 360.00 million years
Pilot Lake, Canada
Location: 60°17'N, 111°1'W
Diameter: 5.80 km
Age: 445.00 +- 2.00 million years
Popigai
Location: 71°30'N, 111°0'E
Diameter: 100.000 km
Age: 35.00 +- 5.00 million years
Presqu'Ile
Location: 49°43'N, 78°48'W
Diameter: 12.000 km
Age: 500.00 million years
Pretoria Salt Pan, South Africa
Location: 25°24'S, 28°5'E
Diameter: 1.130 km
Age: 200,000 years
Puchezh-Katunki
Location: 57°6'N, 43°35'E
Diameter: 80.000 km
Age: 220.00 +- 10.00 million years
Ragozinka, Russia
Location: 58°18'N, 62°0'E
Diameter: 9.000 km
Age: 55.00 +- 5.00 million years
Red Wing
Location: 47°36'N, 103°33'W
Diameter: 9.000 km
Age: 200.00 +- 25.00 million years
Riachao Ring
Location: 7°43'S, 46°39'W
Diameter: 4.500 km
Age: 200.00 million years
Ries, Germany
Location: 48°53'N, 10°37'E
Diameter: 24.000 km
Age: 14.8 +- 1.00 million years
Rio Cuarto
Location: 30°52'S, 64°14'W
Diameter: 4.500 km
Age: 100,000 years
Rochechouart, France
Location: 45°50'N, 0°56'E
Diameter: 23.000 km
Age: 186.00 +- 8.00 million years
Roter Kamm, Namibia
Location: 27°46'S, 16°18'E
Diameter: 2.500 km
Age: 5.0 +- 0.30 million years
Rotmistrovka
Location: 49°0'N, 32°0'E
Diameter: 2.700 km
Age: 140.00 +- 20.00 million years
Saaksjarvi, Finland
Location: 61°24'N, 22°24'E
Diameter: 5.000 km
Age: 514.00 +- 12.00 million years
Saint Martin, Canada
Location: 51°47'N, 98°32'W
Diameter: 40.000 km
Age: 220.0 +- 32.00 million years
Serpent Mound, Ohio
Location: 39°2'N, 83°24'W
Diameter: 6.40 km
Age: 320.00 million years
Serra Da Cangalha
Location: 8°5'S, 46°52'W
Diameter: 12.000 km
Age: 300.00 million years
Shunak, Kazakhstan
Location: 47°12'N, 72°42'E
Diameter: 3.100 km
Age: 12.00 +- 5.00 million years
Sierra Madera, Texas
Location: 30°36'N, 102°55'W
Diameter: 13.000 km
Age: 100.00 million years
Sikhote Alin, USSR
Location: 46°7'N, 134°40'E
Diameter: 0.027 km
Age: 0 years
Siljan, Sweden
Location: 61°2'N, 14°52'E
Diameter: 55.000 km
Age: 368.00 +- 1.10 million years
Slate Islands
Location: 48°40'N, 87°0'W
Diameter: 30.000 km
Age: 350.00 million years
Sobolev
Location: 46°18'N, 138°52'E
Diameter: 0.053 km
Age: 0 years
Soderfjarden, Finland
Location: 63°0'N, 21°35'E
Diameter: 6.000 km
Age: 550.00 million years
Spider, Australia
Location: 16°44'S, 126°5'E
Diameter: 13.000 km
Age: 570.00 million years
Steen River, Canada
Location: 59°31'N, 117°37'W
Diameter: 25.000 km
Age: 95.00 +- 7.00 million years
Steinheim, Germany
Location: 48°40'N, 10°4'E
Diameter: 3.800 km
Age: 14.80 +- 0.70 million years
Strangways
Location: 15°12'S, 133°35'E
Diameter: 25.000 km
Age: 470.00 million years
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Location: 46°36'N, 81°11'W
Diameter: 200.000 km
Age: 1850.00 +- 3.00 million years
Tabun-Khara-Obo
Location: 44°6'N, 109°36'E
Diameter: 1.300 km
Age: 3.00 million years
Talemzane, Algeria
Location: 33°19'N, 4°2'E
Diameter: 1.750 km
Age: 3.00 million years
Teague, Australia
Location: 25°52'S, 120°53'E
Diameter: 30.000 km
Age: 1685.00 +- 5.00 million years
Tenoumer, Mauritania
Location: 22°55'N, 10°24'W
Diameter: 1.900 km
Age: 2.50 +- 0.50 million years
Ternovka
Location: 48°1'N, 33°5'E
Diameter: 12.000 km
Age: 280.00 +- 10.00 million years
Tin Bider
Location: 27°36'N, 5°7'E
Diameter: 6.000 km
Age: 70.00 million years
Tookoonooka
Location: 27°0'S, 143°0'E
Diameter: 55.000 km
Age: 128.00 +- 5.00 million years
Tvaren
Location: 58°46'N, 17°25'E
Diameter: 2.000 km
Age: 0 years
Upheaval Dome, Utah
Location: 38°26'N, 109°54'W
Diameter: 5.000 km
Age: 65.00 million years
Ust-Kara
Location: 69°18'N, 65°18'E
Diameter: 25.000 km
Age: 73.00 +- 3.00 million years
Vargeao Dome
Location: 26°50'S, 52°7'W
Diameter: 12.000 km
Age: 70.00 million years
Veevers
Location: 22°58'S, 125°22'E
Diameter: 0.080 km
Age: 1.00 million years
Vepriaj
Location: 55°6'N, 24°36'E
Diameter: 8.000 km
Age: 160.00 +- 30.00 million years
Vredefort, South Africa
Location: 27°0'S, 27°30'E
Diameter: 140.000 km see below
Age: 1970.00 +- 100.00 million years
Wabar, Arabia
Location: 21°30'N, 50°28'E
Diameter: 0.097 km
Age: 10,000 +- 0 years
Wanapitei Lake, Canada
Location: 46°45'N, 80°45'W
Diameter: 7.500 km
Age: 37.00 +- 2.00 million years
Wells Creek, Tennessee
Location: 36°23'N, 87°40'W
Diameter: 14.000 km
Age: 200.00 +- 100.00 million years
West Hawk Lake, Canada
Location: 49°46'N, 95°11'W
Diameter: 3.150 km
Age: 100.00 +- 50.00 million years
Wolfe Creek, West Australia
Location: 19°18'S, 127°46'E
Diameter: 0.875 km
Age: 300,000 years
Zapadnaya
Location: 49°44'N, 29°0'E
Diameter: 4.000 km
Age: 115.00 +- 10.00 million years
Zeleny Gai
Location: 48°42'N, 32°54'E
Diameter: 2.500 km
Age: 120.00 +- 20.00 million years
Zhamanshin, Kazakhstan
Location: 48°24'N, 60°58'E
Diameter: 13.500 km
Age: 900,000 +- 100,000 years
References
Pilkington, M. and R. A. F. Grieve, "The Geophysical Signature of
Terrestrial Impact Craters." Reviews of Geophysics, May 1992, vol.
30, pp. 161-181.
http://www.meteorite.ch/crater.htm
Chesapeake Bay
Location 37o 16.5’N 76o 7’ W
Diameter 90 km (6400 km square crater area) 1.3 km deep
Age 35.3-35.5 myr
C. Wylie Poag, “The Chesapeake Bay Bolide Impact: A Convulsive Event in
Atlantic Coastal Plain Evolution,” Sedimentary Geology 180(1997):45-90
“In so far as the age of the Woodleigh impact is constrained between the
Early Permian and Early Jurassic, given the likely environmental
consequences of an impact of this magnitude, it is possible that this
event correlates with one of the two major extinctions during this time
span, i.e., the end-Triassic (214 Ma) extinctions or the Permian-Triassic
boundary (247 Ma) extinction.” Arthur J. Mory et al, “Woodleigh,
Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: a New 120 Km Diameter Impact
Structure,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 177(2000):119-128, p.
127
“A 2.020 +/- 0.003 GA meteorite impact pierced the ~10-km-thick
sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the 3.07 to 2.5 Ga Witwatersrand Basin
forming a 300-km diameter impact crater. Isostatic recovery in the center
of the Vredefort impact structure overturned and exposed the lower basin
strata and underlying crystalline basement, the latter to paleodepths of
at least 20 km. Recent discovery of 3.5 to 3.3 Ga mantle rocks at the
center of the basement uplift further supports the interpretation that the
37-km-thick crust has been turned on edge.” D. E. Moser, R. M. Flowers
and R. J. Hart, “Birth of the Kaapvaal Tectosphere 3.08 Billion Years
Ago,” Science 291(2001):465-468, p. 466
The Vredefort has shock metamorphism
“We determined the primary ages of shock-metamorphosed zircon grains
from two sites using techniques described elsewhere.” D. E. Moser, R. M.
Flowers and R. J. Hart, “Birth of the Kaapvaal Tectosphere 3.08 Billion
Years Ago,” Science 291(2001):465-468, p. 466-467
Here is an explanation of the effects of large meteor impacts.
"Computer models of explosions with energies of 1,000 megatons--about
20 times the energy of the largest nuclear bombs but only 1/100,000 the
energy of the KT impact--have shown that the fireball never reaches
pressure equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere. Instead, as the
fireball expands to altitudes where the density of the atmosphere declines
significantly, its rise accelerates and the gas leaves the atmosphere at
velocities fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational field. The
fireball from an even greater asteroid impact would simply burst out the
top of the atmosphere, carrying any entrained ejecta with it, sending the
material into orbits that could carry it anywhere on the earth."
"The impact of a comet-size body on the earth, creating a crater 150
kilometers in diameter, would clearly kill everything within sight of the
fireball." Walter Alvarez and Frank Asaro, "An Extraterrestrial
Impact," Scientific American, Oct. 1990, p. 80-82
[Note to the reader. The fellow named Socrates,
remored to be a well known YEC leader was, at this time, denigrating the
fact that I only have a bachelors of physics, claiming that only people
like, him, who have Ph.D.s were capable of discussing such facts. Thus, I
sarcastically added this to my posting. For an exampls search on
Socrates at http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11221&perpage=16&highlight=Socrates%20AND%20Ph.D%20AND%20Morton&pagenumber=1
Of course, I apologize to everyone for only having a Bachelors in Physics.
I am so ashamed of this, I can hardly speak. But please forgive my lack of
having a Ph. D.
Thus, having apologized for my B. S. degree, respondents don't need to
mention my qualifications when they present their coherent explanations of
how Noah survived such a rain of fire from the sky.
Ok, it is the turn for the Young-earthers to explain the data. How did
Noah survive megatons of impacts occurring in a one year period?????
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