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Ok, for the next chapter in this book......
Hope you don't mind going through this...

The Geologic Column as a Meteor-Shower Gauge
According to the theory of evolution and its requirement of eons of time for earth history, the "geologic column" has been gradually building up for hundreds of millions of years. The geologic column is the name geologists give to the layers of sedimentary rock we can see, for example, when a hill is cut away to make a roadbed for a highway. One of the most spectacular views of such stratified layers is provided by the Grand Canyon. Evolutionists believe that these rock layers have been building up gradually for millions of years.
If these millions of years were a reality there would have been countless numbers of meteors encountering the earth's atmosphere. As previously mentioned, the vast majority of these meteors would have burned up before reaching the ground, but a small percentage would reach the earth's surface each year as meteorites. With the passage of vast amounts of evolutionary time, these accumulating meteorites would be incorporated into the geologic column, and there should be many of them contained in the rock layers today. Paleontologists and other scientists doing research in the geologic rock layers should frequently encounter meteorites.
Most creationist scientists, however, do not believe that the geologic column has been building up, and thus been open to meteors, for millions of years. They argue, on the basis of a great deal of data and evidence, that the geologic column was laid down quickly under catastrophic conditions and thus has not been exposed to meteorites for very long. If this is the case, there would be very few meteorites in the geologic column and finding one would be a rare occurrence.
On the basis of the opposing recent-creation and evolution models, we have two distinctly different predictions about the number of meteorites in the geologic column. The evolution model predicts a high number of meteorites, which should turn up fairly often in geological research. Recent-creationists, by contrast, expect a very small number of meteorites in the geologic column. Thus, finding one should be an extremely rare event.
What do the data show? A clear result in favor of a recent creation. One survey of the literature a few years ago failed to turn up a single case of a meteorite being found in the geologic column.1 The meteorite clock reads clearly to the effect that the earth is not very old.2

Upon reading this over it appears to me, not to be a good argument for either side. Just to many variables. First, finding intact meterorites of lets say just for discussion the size of large deformed marbles would not be easy, since in most cases even if it did reach the ground and impact, the thing would pulverize as it traveled tens of feet into the ground maybe even driving through two or three layers of sediment depending on the density of the deposits. Second, the rates these things enter varies greatly and percentage that make it to impact is relatively small. Although, if my memory serves me, satellite's were employed to keep everyone honest who signed up on the nuclear test band treaty which soon after their employment began to register high energy releases. Since no one was testing nuclear bombs it was determined that the register of energy releases was meteors impacting the surface of the earth. The rate was surprisingly high as I remember. Thirdly the creation concept of worldwide destruction would really jumble up any evidence if it actually was abundant prior to the catastrophe. Again, (meteors plus or minus) not a good argument or indicator for either side.

> First, finding intact meterorites of lets say just for discussion the size of large deformed marbles would not be easy,

Of course not. Would you recognize that the nondescript marble-sized stone in your hand was a meteorite? The pictures below are from a website selling stony meteorites. Can you honestly say yopu'd know these weren't jsut rocks? A nickle-iron meteorite, cut apart and acid treated is virtually impossible to fake. But these look like plain rocks to me.

If you want to hunt for meteorits, there are two typres of places to go:

1: Near known meteorite impact sites, such as Meteor Crater in Arizona. Good luck picking out the stony meteorite from Just Rocks, of course... 2: Atop glaciers, especially in Antarctica. A rock on top of a vast ice field stands a good chance to have been dropped there.

> Since no one was testing nuclear bombs it was determined that the register of energy releases was meteors impacting the surface of the earth.

Those were explosions in the upper atmosphere, not on the surface. Those high-altitude explosions regularly get into the kiloton-yield-range.