"Back in July 2005, NASA performed a spectacular maneuvre with a spacecraft, crashing it into the comet Tempel 1. The experiment aimed to understand the substances from which our solar system, our planet and ultimately life itself allegedly ‘evolved’.
Astronomers use a technique known as spectroscopy to analyse the light from stars and gas clouds in space, looking for the specific signatures of their chemical makeup. The chemical signatures show up as dark bands (absorption lines) or light bands (emission lines) in the spectra of the object being studied.
At the time of writing, scientists had found the signatures of a number of the components of the comet’s interior. They include silica, the major component of sand, and ethane, a gas that is used on Earth as a fuel and a refrigerant. Two other chemical signatures were also found, pointing to the existence of chemical compounds scientists could not have predicted in their wildest dreams. The
compounds in question are carbonates, found in the shells of sea creatures and limestone, and clays.
The big problem surrounding these two compounds lies in the knowledge that carbonates and clays only ever form in liquid water, not in the icy outer reaches of the Solar system where Comet Tempel 1 is believed to have originated.
However the silicates found in Tempel 1’s makeup are crystalline and require temperatures over 700°C (1,300°F) to form. This temperature is, in our solar system, found only very close to the Sun.
In conventional terms, comets such as Tempel 1, a short-period comet, are thought to form well beyond the orbit of the gas planet Neptune, where temperatures are consistently close to absolute zero (-273°C), not close to the Sun where temperatures soar. The existence of water-formed compounds, crystalline silicates and ethane gas in the same comet at the same time pose very hard questions for evolutionary scientists. It seems impossible to conceive of the very different conditions required all combining for their formation. The presence of liquid water requires a number of very specific conditions, not the least of which is a very narrow temperature and pressure range not found in interplanetary space.
For Christians however, the watery chemicals found in Tempel 1 are not unexpected at all. In fact, water in one form or another is found in abundance in the universe. We would expect this if we based our search for understanding on the accounts of creation found in the Bible, rather than on atheistic hypotheses that discount the biblical record." CMI
Astronomers use a technique known as spectroscopy to analyse the light from stars and gas clouds in space, looking for the specific signatures of their chemical makeup. The chemical signatures show up as dark bands (absorption lines) or light bands (emission lines) in the spectra of the object being studied.
At the time of writing, scientists had found the signatures of a number of the components of the comet’s interior. They include silica, the major component of sand, and ethane, a gas that is used on Earth as a fuel and a refrigerant. Two other chemical signatures were also found, pointing to the existence of chemical compounds scientists could not have predicted in their wildest dreams. The
The big problem surrounding these two compounds lies in the knowledge that carbonates and clays only ever form in liquid water, not in the icy outer reaches of the Solar system where Comet Tempel 1 is believed to have originated.
However the silicates found in Tempel 1’s makeup are crystalline and require temperatures over 700°C (1,300°F) to form. This temperature is, in our solar system, found only very close to the Sun.
In conventional terms, comets such as Tempel 1, a short-period comet, are thought to form well beyond the orbit of the gas planet Neptune, where temperatures are consistently close to absolute zero (-273°C), not close to the Sun where temperatures soar. The existence of water-formed compounds, crystalline silicates and ethane gas in the same comet at the same time pose very hard questions for evolutionary scientists. It seems impossible to conceive of the very different conditions required all combining for their formation. The presence of liquid water requires a number of very specific conditions, not the least of which is a very narrow temperature and pressure range not found in interplanetary space.
For Christians however, the watery chemicals found in Tempel 1 are not unexpected at all. In fact, water in one form or another is found in abundance in the universe. We would expect this if we based our search for understanding on the accounts of creation found in the Bible, rather than on atheistic hypotheses that discount the biblical record." CMI
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old,
and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2 Peter 3:5