Too Many Meteor Strikes in 6k Years

Quick glance at the link suggests the evidence isn't all that hard and fast, but I'd suggest that maybe a lot of comet activity occurred along with the -- ta da!!! -- Great Flood, when the point WAS to kill off all humanity except 8 souls and the same with all the animals. Seems possible enough that at least that many/few could survive such an event or even many such events, especially in a water-soaked world that would absorb a lot of the impact.Just a thought.This message has been edited by Faith, 05-23-2005 04:00 AMThis message has been edited by Faith, 05-23-2005 04:00 AM

Sorry, comets, meteors, meteorites, it was late and I was tired, but any and all wouldn't have had the enormous impact supposed in the first post if they occurred in conjunction with the Flood. A simple thought, that's all.

God doesn't tell us EVERYTHING.The flood was a pretty dramatic event that would have changed many things on the earth, beneath the oceans and in the "firmament." Most likely included intense volcanic activity. Could have included bombardment by "heavenly" objects.Jar's link to lists of craters made by such heavenly intruders is very interesting. I looked for some that might have landed in the vicinity of Noah and family's landing place. There are a few in Kazakhstan, which is roughly in the neighborhood, and one in Ukraine and a couple or three in Libya and Chad, but none mentioned in the Middle East proper, none in Turkey, none really close enough to have been noted by Noah and clan.So, it's POSSIBLE they occurred during the flood or even some period afterward, impacting still rather wet earth, and nobody would know about it who was living at the time.

Not at all. I've learned that this is believed but not that it is true. It is a matter of interpretation, not fact. All such notions about the flood are interpretation of data, not direct fact.So is the idea that they are "associated with mass extinctions" an interpretation of data, not fact in itself.

Well, you weren't there and neither was I but if only Noah and family were around and none of them hit in their neck of the woods, and they DID hit water, there is no reason to think that even that enormous kind of impact would have been felt by Noah and clan any more than the devastation of the flood already overwhelmed them. Why would a ton of them hitting Arizona, Texas, Libya, Canada etc. be a problem for Noah?

Well but you are guessing too and you don't know how close Noah was to the Kazakhstan hits and you don't know whether the impact was in water or wet earth or whatnot. My guessing is as good as yours I dare say.

The idea wasn't that they occurred before the flood but during it or soon after, somehow connected with the whole global catastrophe. How about the IMPACTING effect of such a strike, packing the earth around it, making the impression pretty permanent. They only had to survive a year or less. Or some may have occurred after the water receded, in wet earth.You guys are guessing, I'm guessing. You have ideas of what kind of impact they would create but nobody witnessed them to say for sure.

You ASSUME these worldwide effects, you ASSUME devastation of the climate but you are still thinking of a dry land hit and in any case these are just guesses, you don't know. Nobody ever witnessed this. Science has made predictions before and been wrong.So the waves rocked the ark. I don't know how a tsunami would behave without land to crash on. Do you? Or they hit later when the water had receded quite a bit and Noah and family were high and dry on Ararat for the duration. All guesses, but so are yours. Things were very different before the flood. Whole different kind of climate system. Many things changed during it, were very different after it. It's just hard to know how such a bombardment would affect things during that period. Some assume an enormous amount of volcanic activity during that time too. And tectonic movement.

Well I'm postulating they hit in deep water. That changes the picture of debris and dust clouds, formulae notwithstanding. Great. And it absolutely devastated the climate worldwide, right? Covered the whole earth in dust and debris, right? And killed most of the eyewitnesses, right? So far I haven't heard anything that supports the idea that they would necessarily wreck the atmosphere and kill all living things. Besides which, again, I'm postulating many occurred when the earth was covered by water.

Tell me about it. How many died in this "nuclear strike?" How great an area was affected by it? How far away was it witnessed/detected? How long did the effects continue?

Well, how many of these and where are they located? The flood saturated everything down to bedrock. I figure the wet earth would keep down the dust and debris factor. To some extent that must be the case, certainly with the smaller ones. And if they impacted under water, all the more so. I'm simply guessing they were associated with the whole catastrophe of the flood, both during and afterward for some time -- how long afterward -???? I'm not trying to account for every hit. Not following you. But I'm a YEC remember.

Maybe he noticed them then.

Well he was a pretty strong old guy. He was 600 years old when the flood hit and he lived to be 950.

You should talk. Uh huh, but the debris therefrom would be somewhat dissipated by the water, no?

Of course it was laid down sequentially. What's the problem with angular unconformities? Upheaval shifted parts of the column. What's the big deal? As for dinosaurs, you assume the timeline interpretation of the column, but if there was some mechanical explanation for why dinosaurs are only found in certain layers, then the relation of their burial level to meteor impact is not necessarily causal. Done.edits to correct dumb little errors.This message has been edited by Faith, 05-23-2005 02:43 PM