Dave Siemans wrote:
>>>The Roys informed me that my flood experiment addresses only a passe
version of flood geology, that creationary catastrophists are now
proposing that the flood was a combination of hundreds of events, with
each depositing a different load of material. Each event seems to be the
result of an asteroid impact.
There are different classes of such events. Some of them are air blasts,
such as Tunguska (June 30, 1908), near the Curuca R. in Brazil (August
13, 1930), and in 1947 over Kamchatka Pen., I believe. Though the
Brazilian blast caused a mag. 7 quake, these moved nothing more than a
few meters of earth in small spots. This is different from the craters,
from small ones like the Barringer Crater in Arizona or the gigantic
Chicxulub Crater on the NW coast of Yucatan. I think about 140 such
craters are now known. <<<<
I just saw this on the web page. This is one of the most laughable
creationist ideas I have heard in a while. Don't those people ever think
about consequences? Consider that the Mjolnir crater 11 km in diameter
required 800,000 megatons (and it is a small crater) the earth would be
destroyed if all those meteors hit the earth in the year of the flood.
Consider:
"The Mjolnir structure is located in the central Barents Sea at
Lat 73o 48' N, long 29o 40' E in water depths of 350-400 m."
11 km wide age 125-161 Ma 5 x 104
8 x 10^5 megatons tnt ~ Steinar Thor Gudlaugsson, "Large Impact
Crater in the Barents Sea", Geology, 21:4, April, 1993, p. 291.
A megaton is about 4.2 x 10^15 J This means that this one crater took 3.36
x 10^21 joules. Being very, very conservative, and using this small crater
energy for the average energy of the 140 known craters
(http://www.meteorite.ch/crater.htm) we find that 4.7 x 10^23 joules of
energy would have hit during the flood year. That is 92,000 joules per
square centimeter of earth surface. That is 67 times the amount of energy
given to the earth's surface by the sun at high noon at the equator on the
day of an equinox.
And this calculation doesn't really take into account that most of the
energy released will be from the big craters like Chixulub or Sudbury.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
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