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To: Bender2

I sufficiently confident that God’s word contains prophecies of all events of such significance that we needn’t worry about such things. Besides, we do have an atmosphere that does a great job of eating such things.

We weren’t created to live in fear.


75 posted on 12/21/2007 6:25:38 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: editor-surveyor; ontap; TrueKnightGalahad
Re: I sufficiently confident that God’s word contains prophecies of all events of such significance that we needn’t worry about such things. Besides, we do have an atmosphere that does a great job of eating such things.

It is one thing to have faith in God, but to have such faith in an atmosphere that has not 'eating' any big asteroids and comets is a sure sign of your complete lack of any basic knowledge of any science or physics.

The earth's atmosphere is not very thick and starts to really thin out above three miles high. The thickest part that 'eats' entering space dust and pebble sized asteroids is not more than 6 miles high from sea level. Now, you tell me how this is going to 'eat' any asteroid or comet that is six, seven, ten miles in diameter or bigger and moving at 100,000 miles per hour?

BTW The meteorite that caused the K–T dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago was more than 6 miles in diameter, making the back still outside that thick 'eating' part of the atmosphere when the front was at ground level starting the mega-megaton sized explosion that would blast out a 110 mile wide crater.

We weren’t created to live in fear.

Maybe, maybe not, but we surely were not created to live in the blissful stupidity you appear to practice. Rose-colored glasses make everything look rosy, but ruby colored glass will not stop a speeding bullet any better than our atmosphere will halt or burn up any large object that intercepts earth.

People of deep and abiding religious faith have my complete heartfelt respect and admiration. Those who, like you, have blinders on that will not allow them to accept any scientific knowledge or even the slightest common sense at all have only my pity.

You have accomplished one thing, old sport. You have proven to me that any further effort on answering any future post of yours is a total waste of time. You have made up your mind and no amount of fact will lead you to knowledge nor water. You already know all you want to know.

Ciao

90 posted on 12/22/2007 6:57:52 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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