Below is the online edition of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood,
by Dr. Walt Brown. Copyright © Center for Scientific Creation. All rights reserved.
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As with the 24 other major features listed on page 109, we have examined the origin of asteroids and meteoroids from two directions: “cause-to-effect” and “effect-to-cause.”
Cause-to-Effect. Given the three assumptions listed on page 117, consequences naturally followed: subterranean water became supercritical, the fountains of the great deep erupted; large rocks, muddy water, and water vapor were launched into space; gas and gravity assembled asteroids; and gas pressure powered by the Sun’s energy (the radiometer effect) herded asteroids into the asteroid belt. Isolated rocks still moving in the solar system are meteoroids.
Effect-to-Cause. We considered twenty-one effects (pages 328–333), each incompatible with present theories on the origin of asteroids and meteoroids. Each effect was evidence that large volumes of rocks and water vapor were launched from Earth.
Working both from cause-to-effect and effect-to-cause is similar to untangling a large ball of twisted and knotted string. Progress is faster when both ends of the string can be used. Too often in science we use only “one end.”
Portions of Part III will examine this global flood from a third direction: historical records from claimed eyewitnesses. All three perspectives reinforce each other, illuminating in different ways this catastrophic event.