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.
OK, Donovan, how did you get Nancy to agree to be in your movie?
Any evidence of another iridium layer? Perhaps the impact wasn't as effusive.
Hadn't though of that excellent argument.
This is interesting. Maybe for the next one we will have the technology in place to capture the asteroid and mine it and run the L-5 Society program.
Year Zero?
Nobody said they knew how to count either.
You're confused. Each 24 hour period in God Time is actually a billion years. Consider that our time system is based upon earth rotation which has changed over the years.
Such as???
The only thing that makes it "seem" older are flawed dating methods imagined by men.
Since it SAYS 24 hour period, it's the same day we know as a day.
The word used for day ONLY means a 24 hour day.
God doesn't mince words.
I'm not confused IN THE SLIGHTEST.
Plain reading of scripture is clear. SIX literal days of creation.
Nothing in the fossil record contradicts this.
Nothing in the evidence we have contradicts this.
Pretty simple.
every few days, so what's new?
Thanks for the compliments on the designs :)
However, you're incorrect. The word used "yom" only means a literal 24 hour period -- and as I said, no one questions it EXCEPT in the first part of Genesis.
And, in fact, there is no evidence that contradicts.
There is evidence, period. It really neither supports or contradicts creation or evolution, it just is.
THERE ARE THEORIES about the evidence that contradict creation, but the evidence itself does not.
I am not blind to anything, either. I used to be a believer in evolution and the big bang -- then I matured and realized I was wrong.
It does not in anyway specify 24, much less 24 hours.
By the way, since you are relying upon the infallibility of human language, perhaps you'd like to compare the use of any number of words which have changed conotation in the last 50 years just in the U.S., much less the changes between the time the King James Bible was translated, and now.
There are several other layers of things you are overlooking in making such a brash claim.
And just because you will probably come to this sooner or later: I believe that God created the Heavens and Earth. I just think you undermine your own case with your claims.
First, my claim is on fact, nothing "brash"
Second, I've undermined nothing by stating the Biblical case. THere is no need to compromise truth for the best guesses of scientists when truth fits.
The word used for day is (Strongs 03117) yowm (pronounced: yome). This word when used with a number (first, second, etc) ALWAYS in HEBREW means a literal 24 hour period. That's the way the Hebrew has always been.
So yes, Scripture DOES clearly specify a 24 hour period. And to make it even MORE clear, God uses "the evening and the morning" before it -- just to make sure people wouldn't play fast and loose with the term.
Sadly, they still do.
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