Moon craters and age

May 22, 10:41 AM by Administrator

Scientists say the age of the moon is three billion years old. So, how many craters are there? Well, studies show that estimates between three to five hundred thousand craters are rather close, so we’ll go off that figure. It is also said that these rates are pretty stable, so we won’t factor variance into anything and just hope it all averages out.

If the moon is three billion years old, it should have 120,000,000,000 craters.

Obviously if you were the moon, large as it is, one hundred twenty billion pockmarks on your surface would sure eat away at it. Don’t you agree?

Incoming meteoroids strike the moon at velocities of 30,000 mph or even faster. They superheat the surface in an explosion of glowing material, hot enough to look like a minor eruption.1 After one hundred and twenty billion of these, I would expect the moon to look a lot closer to a skeleton then it does.

So, given the estimated range of craters on the moon, how long have meteoroids been striking it? Roughly 7,500 to 12,500 years at the most. Under the assumption, we have very little data yet, that the rate of impact is very stable this could limit the age of the moon significantly. After all, why would sudden random and predictable impact “showers” spontaneously occur?

In all honesty, the assumption of uniformitarianism, the foundation of evolution, is that “all things were as they currently are”.2 The assumptions of uniformitarianism cannot explain the discrepancies of the moon’s impacts without tolerating something: change.

As a Christian I have no trouble accepting cataclysms, changes, or even rapid destruction. Mount St Helens proved this in spades as it carved a miniature grand canyon in less than a week, created a new lake, and deposited a great number of trees in said lake to fossilize quickly. Denial of the possibility and occurrence of similar cataclysms is the result of induced blindness due to paradigms.3 The repeated denial of the flood as a “local event” is preposterous, when just about every nation across the earth has their own variation on the event.4

The origin of the comets, asteroids (bodies in space of dirt and water), and even the larger pockmarks on the moon can easily be explained by creationist theories. Science, in my opinion, is merely the classification of things seen or imagined, so the Bible is always paramount to it—but sometimes science fully agrees with the Bible. For those interested in a unique model of creation and of the flood, scientific ones, I would suggest you read the plasma model introduction and watch a video on the hydroplate theory. Both of these pieces are very friendly to the layman’s understanding.

I must confess that I pity anyone who believes in the hypothesis of evolution. If one part is disproven then the whole is threatened, and the faith of the entire religion wavers. No, I’m not talking of Christianity, but of evolutionism. A person so desperate to avoid the reach of God that they chase the most impossible of ideas is one deserving of pity. Sympathy, on the other hand, I will not give to those stupid enough to deny reality and continue to attempt and bend it to their whim. How many times has the hypothesis of evolution changed or refuted? God never has changed, nor will He.

1 Space.com, paragraph nine.

2 Answers.com Dictionary; paraphrased.

3 Paradigm, n: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. (Answers.com dictionary, definition 3) The trouble with paradigms is scientifically proven to blind individuals not pragmatic enough to set their own beliefs aside, that they filter out anything that disagrees and often aren’t even aware of the existence of things to the contrary.

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