Monday, January 11, 2010

Asteroids and Alps

We were having a family discussion the other day about the end of the world and I happen to mention that I had read somewhere on the internet that in 2036 there was a more than reasonable chance an asteroid about the size of three football fields would hit the earth.(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/30/russia-plan-save-earth-asteroid) It was being taken seriously enough that the Russians were making plans to try to divert its course somehow. Our family talked about how an asteriod of that size hitting the earth could seriously alter a number of things. It doesn't take a genius in physics to figure out that an impact like would have more than just a local effect. We understand intuitively that large things moving at impossible speeds can do serious damage even to objects much larger than they are, like the earth.

Which leads me to my second subject which is how does one create an Alp? How would one create these great thrusts of granite knifing up out of the European continent up to 15,000 feet into the sky. Something as enormous as that we all understand cannot be made by a man and a shovel. Its just not going to happen. It would take billions of years for even several men armed with shovels to create an Alp. Interesting number,"billion", one hundred millions. A number thrown around casually by evolutionists and national economists. Lets say men did try to create an Alp by shovels. It simply could not work. Earth quakes, erosion, water and wind, would prevent it from happening over that same period of a billion years, not to mention the difficulty of creating granite in such large quantities.

So we might come to the conclusion that it would not be in nature's nature to create such a monstrosity since nature likes to tear down not build up. So we propose that it all happened at once. Something went bang, (a very big bang of course) and suddenly the mantle of the earth ripped and up came giant spears of granite. Now again, speaking as a none physicist, but if a meteor three times the size of Jerry's New Cowboys Stadium creates fear in the hearts of Russians scientists, would not the immediate creation of an Alp cause some sort of stir in the earth's fragile trajectory around the sun?

So if it would be "impossible" to build an Alp from scratch one shovel full at a time and if the immediate creation of one would cause astronomical reprocussions, it seems that the creation of an Alp has almost zero probability. Which leads us back to a very simple rational explanation. Perhaps someone who was greater, more powerful, and more intelligent by far than we are, had a plan.