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How do YECs explain the existence of meteor impact craters?

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I havn't got a clue. Since all the facts and evidence show that its from comets and asteroids and meteors. And since we know what would happen if a comets and asteroids and meteor hit the earth. We seen the the devastation that happened when the comet hit jupiter.

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Right. If earth´s crust had been reworked during the flodd as many YECs claim, then the impact craters would have to be from post-flood impacts.
But as with the "global" flood, no civilization that was there when it supposedly happend noticed.

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Well my brother believes that we never got hit by a comet or asteroid, and he believes we will never be hit by a comet or asteroid cause god wouldn't allow it. But as much as you want to believe that god wouldn't let them hit the earth you have to remember as a lot of people have said god doesn't interfere with humanity. But there isn't anything we could do if a asteroid of comet was going to hit the earth we would be almost as helpless as the dinosaurs. I know i got of topic sorry.

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Sure there are plenty of impact craters why does this need explaining from a YEC. It is the date of the impact that is questionable.

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What is wrong with all the dating methods?Also basic laws of stratigraphy?

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YECs should explain the existence of meteor craters, as the existence of these craters is inconsitent with their creation myth. If the YECs were right, those craters would be the remnants of impacts that happend in historic times. As some of the impacts would have wiped out most of earth´s populations and changed the weather for thousands of years it is quite strange that none of these terrible occurences have been observed or described.

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You know, what you say here makes perfect sense. Depending on the type of impact, it might actually cause major cracks in the earth's crust, which would affect plate-tectonics. And if there were a layer of water underneath the ground before the impact, all that water might surge upward causing a global flood that would wipe out the earth's population. After that, the earth's environment would be very different than pre-impact, and stay different for thousands of years. And if the environment was so radically changed, I suppose that could affect things like the lifespans of the handful of people who survived and their descendents.

If all that happened, you'd think it would have been observed and written about somewhere...

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And if there wasn´t a layer of water (which is likely as there is ZERO scientific evidence pointing to something like a "layer of water") then your hypothesis is utterly wrong.
What is more, there is not only ONE big impact crater, there are A LOT. If all of them had formed at the same time, there wouldn´t have been much left of our planet.

So, do you have a valid theory or just another ad-hoc hypothesis with more "if (event X for which no evidence exists) had happened then (event Y for which no evidence exists) may have happened therefore explaining observation Z"?

 

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Now I know where that oiriginal idea from came from. THomas burnet proposed aperfectly spherical earth with arocky covering a layering of water. In his model the covering shrank[plate tectonics] and let the water through causing the flood This was thought of in the late sevnteenth century.No thoughts of meteories or asteroids then

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