Posted on 08/23/2004 6:58:34 AM PDT by blam
Antarctic craters reveal strike
The asteroid may have raised sea levels by up to 60cm
Scientists have mapped enormous impact craters hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet using satellite technology. The craters may have either come from an asteroid between 5 and 11km across that broke up in the atmosphere, a swarm of comets or comet fragments.
The space impacts created multiple craters over an area of 2,092km (1,300 miles) by 3,862km (2,400 miles).
The scientists told a conference this week that the impacts occurred roughly 780,000 years ago during an ice age.
When the impacts hit, they would have melted through the ice and through the crust below.
Professor Frans van der Hoeven, from Delft University in the Netherlands, told the International Geographical Union Congress in Glasgow that the biggest single strike seared a hole in the ice sheet roughly 322km (200 miles) by 322km.
Impact melt
This would have melted about 1% of the ice sheet, raising water levels worldwide by 60cm (2ft).
The research suggests that an asteroid the size of the one blamed for killing off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago could have struck Earth relatively recently.
Early humans would have been living in Africa and other parts of the Old World at the time of the strikes.
But the impacts would have occurred during an ice age, so even tidal waves would have been weakened by the stabilising effect of icebergs on the ocean.
The craters were resolved using satellite data to map gravity anomalies under the ice sheet.
TO each his own. I'll stick with the truth of God's word.
Since we're told creation was six, literal, 24-hour days by God in His word. I'll stick with that.
This impactor was in the same size class as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Yet it didn't cause a major extinction event.
IMHO this is because the Chixulub impact was on shallow water. Imagine a 60 mile wide white hot crater with sea water pouring in from all sides! It's a recipe for steam cleaming a large portion of a planet...
I'll leave God's definition of days to Him. When you are eternal, hours probably get a little bit longer.
You do that.
"So the evening and the morning were the first day."
The word used for DAY (yom) only ever means a literal 24 hour period. Every other place it's used to mean a literal day, no one ever questions.
They only question it in Genesis because they are trying to change God's word to fit the THEORIES of anti-God "scientists". Yet the evidence fits a literal six-day creation.
These people are like John Kerry, flip-flopping whenever it suits them.
And when You're eternal, an hour is still an hour. It's not relative. Although time has no meaning to an eternal God, the term still has meaning.
Fire and ice ping
The entire universe was created at the instant you read the period at the end of this sentence.
You have been implanted with "memories" that make it seem like you and the rest of the universe existed before this time.
Just kidding, the universe will not be created until the next time you blink your eyes! < ;o{}
isn't a day from sun up to the next sun up. sun up to sun up depends on the rotation speed of the object.
You are wrong, the world started the day I was born:)
You seem to assume that scientists working in geology, astronomy etc. are "anti-God." Do you have any basis for this claim?
If the Earth was created around 10,000 years ago, why would God place all this misleading evidence in the geological record that suggests a much older Earth?
And when You're eternal, an hour is still an hour. It's not relative. Although time has no meaning to an eternal God, the term still has meaning.
Time is relative. An hour for someone traveling at the speed of light is different from an hour for you and me.
Bah, you're all just figments of my imagination and I'm just a brain in a jar.
Have you directed God about this?
You forgot your /sarcasm tag.
No a day is the time it takes for the sun to revolve around the earth:)
Or maybe the Chixulub event did not wipe out the dinosaurs. This event is alledged to be bigger and yet did no or little damage on a plantary scale? hmmmm, something does not cumpute.
Lots of ash, dust, CO2 and sulfur dumped into the atmosphere. Major global warming and acid rain...
Also a "dry" vs "wet" strike. No planetary steam cleaning.
Where exactly does it say that? One can infer such a thing, but I am quite certain that it says no such thing. ...And was that a Solar day, or a Sidereal day?
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