Oard Impact Scenario Quote

[Floodnut]

This is quoted in my paper:
The impact scenario is mainstream Creationism

Michael J. Oard in [ www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1530 ] writes:
However, it is very likely that meteorite impacts also occurred during the Flood. Jeremy Auldaney suggests that impacts triggered the Flood.252,253 Carl Froede and Don deYoung propose that a planet broke up between Mars and Jupiter, based on the Titius-Bode relationship. The debris from this breakup was responsible for the cratering observed in the Solar System, with most impacts on earth occurring during the Flood.254 These authors are probably correct, since both the pre-Flood and post-Flood time-frames are expected to have been times of relative geological quiet.255 Furthermore, there are around 150 probable impact craters now known on earth.256 Most of the impact craters are dated between 1 million and 1 billion years.257 One would expect that most of these 150 impacts occurred during the Flood, especially if the Flood/post-Flood boundary is generally in the late Cainozoic of the uniformitarian timescale.258–260 The reason for this deduction is that erosion since the Flood has been slight, especially in areas not glaciated.261 An impact within the Flood is expected to have been greatly eroded and filled with sediment, showing just the bare circular outline, with little or no detectable ejecta. On the other hand, a post-Flood impact is generally expected to exhibit relatively sharp features plus ejecta, especially in a non-glacial and dry environment. A classic example is the Arizona Meteor Crater.262 Therefore, since most impact craters are barely detectable in the Flood sediments, it is likely that most impacts occurred during the Flood.

 

[busterdog]

Interesting.

The dark side of the moon has a disproportionately rugged appearance. One explanation is catastrophism. I think some creationists have suggested that these features were created perhaps in a matter of hours or days. This would be consistent with your article.

It may be that the far side of the moon is disproportionately exposed to the direction from which meteors might be likely to originate, since the far side of the moon is always facing away, which would favor the near side in terms of being shielded by the earth for a significant portion of each month..

The far hemisphere was first photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 probe in 1959, and was first directly observed by human eyes when the Apollo 8 mission orbited the Moon in 1968. The rugged terrain is distinguished by a multitude of crater impacts, as well as relatively few lunar maria. It includes the largest known impact feature in the Solar System: the South Pole-Aitken basin.

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Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have slowed the moon's rotation so that the same side is always facing the Earth. The other face, which is never visible from the Earth in its entirety, is therefore called the "far side of the Moon". The far side should not be confused with the "dark side" (the hemisphere that is not illuminated by the Sun), as the two are the same only during a full moon. Both the near and far sides receive (on average) almost equal amounts of light from the Sun.


The two hemispheres have distinctly different appearances, with the near side covered in multiple, large maria (Latin for 'seas,' since the earliest astronomers thought, wrongly, that these plains were seas of lunar water). The far side has a battered, densely cratered appearance with few maria. Only 2.5% of the surface of the far side is covered by maria,[1] compared to 31.2% on the near side. The most likely explanation for this difference is related to a higher concentration of heat-producing elements on the near-side hemisphere, as has been demonstrated by geochemical maps obtained from the Lunar Prospector gamma-ray spectrometer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon