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I know this has probably been discussed before, but I want to bring it up again.
Over the course of the history of the Earth, the Earth has been hit by various space objects. A relatively recent impact occurred almost 100 years ago in Siberia, when a 90-meter diameter asteriod exploded before impacting the ground with the force of 800 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Yet, in the past there have been impacts many magnitudes in size. The biggest impacts (1,2) include:
Vredefort crater (300 km diameter, ~2 billion years ago)
Sudbury crater (250 km diameter, ~1.8 billion years ago)
Chicxulub crater (170 km diameter, ~65 million years ago)
Woodleigh crater (~120 km diameter, ~200-360 million years ago)
Popigai crater (100 km diameter, ~36 million years ago)
Manicouagan crater (100 km diameter, ~214 million years ago)
To put these impacts in perspective, the impact that killed the dinosaurs (Chicxulub crater) is thought to have been caused by an asteriod 10 km in diameter. The force of impact would have been the equivilant of 15 billion Hiroshima bombs. And that's not even the biggest of the lot, let alone the only impact.
So how does the YEC model of the Earth account for these impacts? How has life on Earth survived such events, if the Earth is a mere 6000 years old?
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Last edited by Pete Harcoff; 20th February 2004 at 09:15 PM.
I think a map of the impact craters might be useful here, from the site above.
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Interesting. Why are they clustered in europe/australia/north america?
Why not south east asia/russia?
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I have flown over that bit of russia six times, and I have yet to see anything even remotely interesting. I assume that asteroids have a decent sense of where to go on holiday too.
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Interesting. Why are they clustered in europe/australia/north america?
Why not south east asia/russia?
I bet it's a matter of where the most geologic work's been done - Europe/Australia/North America have been looked at in more detail than most of Asia and Russia.
To put these impacts in perspective, the impact that killed the dinosaurs (Chicxulub crater) is thought to have been caused by an asteriod 10 km in diameter. The force of impact would have been the equivilant of 15 billion Hiroshima bombs. And that's not even the biggest of the lot, let alone the only impact.
So how does the YEC model of the Earth account for these impacts? How has life on Earth survived such events, if the Earth is a mere 6000 years old?
Wow, insteresting question! *BUMP!* Can't wait to hear the YEC response.
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Wow, insteresting question! *BUMP!* Can't wait to hear the YEC response.
In general, they don't have an answer for it. They ignore it. I did bring it up to Helen Setterfield one time (IIRC) and she said that they were mentioned in the bible, when God burned down cities-with fire from the sky (IIRC).
I could go on, but it didn't make any sense then and it still doesn't now.
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In general, they don't have an answer for it. They ignore it. I did bring it up to Helen Setterfield one time (IIRC) and she said that they were mentioned in the bible, when God burned down cities-with fire from the sky (IIRC).
I could go on, but it didn't make any sense then and it still doesn't now.
So these earth shattering asteroids came down to take out one city??
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