Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Creation Moment 6/19/2019 - Scarp Evidence for a Recent Creation

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalm 81:3

"Scientists have concluded that our moon is probably still in the process of slightly shrinking as it cools.
Photographs from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) showed embankments called scarps on the moon’s surface.

These scarps are caused by a slight contraction of the moon’s crust as it cools. The moon’s cooling creates thrust faults which push up small sections of the surface, forming scarps.
Because these scarps sometimes distort small craters when they form, scientists inferred that the scarps formed in the relatively recent past.

This is because larger meteorite impacts eventually deface or destroy smaller craters.
Since these smaller craters had not yet been defaced by more recent large impacts, we know these small craters are quite young.
And since the scarps distorted these young craters as the scarps formed, the scarps have to be even younger than the small craters. Secular scientists had already concluded that these scarps could be no more than a billion years old and could perhaps be less than 50 million years old.
Such “recent” geological activity on the moon is expected if the moon is just thousands of years old, but quite surprising to secular scientists who think it’s around 4.5 billion years old."
ICR