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A collision 4.5 billion years ago nearly destroyed our planet but instead helped start path to life
National Post ^ | June 13, 2014 | Joseph Brean

Posted on 06/15/2014 2:13:49 PM PDT by rickmichaels

Creation stories tend to be outlandish, in keeping with the near impossibility of explaining why the world is the way it is — from the week-long labours of the Old Testament God, to the eternal cycles of the Hindu creator Brahma, to Raven’s metaphysical trickery in Pacific Northwest First Nations tradition.

Fanciful as they are, however, these myths have nothing on modern science, whose creation story — which already involves a mysterious Big Bang, perhaps one of many creations ex nihilo in infinite succession — this week got even weirder.

At a geophysics conference in California, a series of discoveries was announced that show — not for the first time, but in unprecedented detail — the Earth as we know it today was born of a violent collision between two ancient planets, so forceful it reduced both to molten rock and silicate vapour, and nearly blasted both into cosmic smithereens.

“It would have been a very, very bad day for the Earth,” said Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, associate professor in the Earth and Planetary sciences Department at Harvard University. “One potential outcome could have been complete destruction.”

It came close. The cataclysmic meeting of the proto-Earth and the smaller, Mars-sized planet Theia — known as the Big Splash — set the Earth spinning faster than ever, tilted its axis by 23 degrees, and created the moon from the debris that was blasted into orbit.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; lunarorigin; moon; sujoymukhopadhyay
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1 posted on 06/15/2014 2:13:49 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

They have footage of that collision. In color.


2 posted on 06/15/2014 2:15:30 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Bryan24

Hope they included the 7.1 surround audio for full effect ;^)


3 posted on 06/15/2014 2:17:27 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: rickmichaels

>Theia — known as the Big Splash — set the Earth spinning faster than ever, tilted its axis by 23 degrees, and created the moon from the debris that was blasted into orbit.

Thanks for the tides and the seasons Theia. She must have been hauling tail to not get caught in a solar orbit.


4 posted on 06/15/2014 2:18:05 PM PDT by soycd
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To: rickmichaels

Ahhhh ... but the universe that was non-existent at one time created itself into existence by _____________ (fill in the blank) .... THAT makes more and/or better sense ... right ?


5 posted on 06/15/2014 2:18:37 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: rickmichaels

And all of this happened when a very large boy was playing marbles with a turtle while waiting to get their lizard mom’s car washed.

You see, I can make up stories too.

I often wonder why there is so much concern and dispute about “where” we came from. We are here.

Let’s focus on that.


6 posted on 06/15/2014 2:18:39 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: rickmichaels

>>a series of discoveries was announced that show — not for the first time, but in unprecedented detail

Science!-tists sez: “Come on guys. Stop believing in God and believe in us! We need grant money more than he does. We made a YouTube video showing how the world was created. Where’s your God’s YouTube videos?”


7 posted on 06/15/2014 2:20:08 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: rickmichaels

G. K. Chesterton: “He who does not believe in God will believe in anything.” This is a glaring example. With no way to prove this, do these silly “scientists” really believe it?


8 posted on 06/15/2014 2:20:42 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: rickmichaels; All
Thank you for referencing that article rickmichaels. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"... but in unprecedented detail ..."

Show me. And I'm not interested in artistic conceptual drawings.

9 posted on 06/15/2014 2:24:20 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: rickmichaels

“...these myths have nothing on modern science...”

True dat.


10 posted on 06/15/2014 2:28:01 PM PDT by jocon307
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Well .. I think I’ll stick with the Bible’s version .. after all, GOD is smarter than all of them.

GOD created the human after his own image (GOD is not an amoeba or plant) .. meaning we have a brain and a free will to take on the world’s problems and solve them.

It is up to each individual to educate himself; and to seek out GOD’s wisdom.


11 posted on 06/15/2014 2:33:09 PM PDT by CyberAnt (True the Vote: MY AMERICA, "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: knarf

I have yet to hear a logically coherent explanation for the creation of the universe, other than what I read in Genesis.


12 posted on 06/15/2014 2:33:12 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: rickmichaels

Theia?
Isn’t that a song where the girl died, the dude plants a tree and watches it grow, etc?


13 posted on 06/15/2014 2:36:49 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: rickmichaels

A terrible F5 tornado blew through here recently. When I got to the disaster scene I found a table impeccably set with silver, crystal, porcelain China, and starched linens, a five course French dinner on the sideboard, and a 1982 Chateau Margaux waiting alongside. With a pitcher of Manhattans.

What’s the matter, don’t you believe in SCIENCE?


14 posted on 06/15/2014 2:41:12 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Romulus

Science denier /S


15 posted on 06/15/2014 2:45:24 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rickmichaels

The author of this appears to have picked up a dusty copy of Worlds in Collision by Velikovsky. He thinks it’s a new idea. Nothing new under the sun.


16 posted on 06/15/2014 2:58:49 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: rickmichaels

Wow.. Molten lava and silicon vapours.

Talk about glowball varming !!


17 posted on 06/15/2014 2:59:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Resettozero

Well, it’s always good to know we can all be wiped out
by a planetary collision, as if we didn’t have enough to
worry about...


18 posted on 06/15/2014 3:02:17 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: knarf

So where did Microsoft come up with..

Abort, Retry or Fail?

Our cosmic destiny?

Or just another attempt to explain

Sh*t haPPens.


19 posted on 06/15/2014 3:03:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Fungi
I never did like that quote. Not his best. I find it grammatically challenged.

Since there is no official antonym of anything, it is reasonable to think of 'nothing.'

It certainly isn't 'everything,' since both anything and everything(in this case) both mean all things. As in “He who does not believe in God will believe in all things.”

“He who does not believe in God will believe in anything.”

“He who does not believe in God will believe in everything.”

or in logical reverse, one is left with something rather compromising:

He who does believe in God will believe in nothing.

What do you think? (of the grammar....)

20 posted on 06/15/2014 3:09:47 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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