Of course what I find absolutely astonishing is how phenomena that could only be the result of a one-time event involving a huge quantity of water, which laid down SEPARATE DIFFERENT SEDIMENTS with DEAD THINGS buried in them, get explained as enormously long eras of time in which ONLY those sediments were laid down (as if the Mississippian period was the period of Redwall Limestone or whatever its sediment happens to be and only redwall limestone was ever laid down in those multiplied millions of years) and ONLY those creatures buried in that sediment were alive during that "time period" and so on. Now THAT is true magic for you.
Hey, remember how you don't know anything about geology? If this has slipped your mind, consult any of the threads in which you discuss geology.
Once a scientist is committed to a particular theory of age then that's what the scientist "sees" wherever he or she looks. Perfectly understandable.
Creationists are not, in fact, "perfectly understandable". You
know that asteroid strikes are rare. How many new craters (big enough that we can see them) have appeared on the Moon in your lifetime? Your father's? Your grandfathers'? It just doesn't happen that often. Taking this at face value, it took a long time for the Moon to get that beat up. It takes a rather special sort of mind to confront the evidence and say: "Ah, clearly this was caused very rapidly as a consequence of the Earth flooding." To describe creationists as halfwitted religious zealots names the defect but does not provide actual insight into the condition.
Me, I don't know yet what to make of the asteroids. It makes sense to me that they would be connected with the Fall or the Flood in some way because they are a destructive phenomenon, but how they came about I haven't studied yet.
I guess "in some way" is a refinement of your previous "somehow" theory.
What's really amazing is that you can swallow the utterly stupendously ridiculous status quo theory while ridiculing the Flood.
To you, the ability to understand basic geology may indeed seem amazing, verging on the supernatural. For me it's trivial --- as subjects go, it's a lot easier than advanced math.