GOODNESS GRANNY
Creation excels itself! Just click on Gavin Cox’s name (the author) to read his biography. Make sure you subscribe to Creation Magazine: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Goodness granny Great balls of fire! by Gavin Cox At 11:35pm on 3 October 2021, 66-year-old grandmother Ruth Hamilton was woken suddenly by a loud bang as a space rock smashed through her apartment roof. It landed on her pillow, inches from her head. Hamilton was stunned to see the black meteorite, slightly larger than a baseball and weighing 1.27 kg (2.8 lb), which left a gaping hole in her ceiling.1 Moments before, residents of Golden, in Canada’s British Columbia province, were treated to a fireball streaking across the night sky. This was caused by a meteor that had disintegrated in the upper atmosphere before parts of it fell to Earth as meteorites. One part landed in a field a mile from Hamilton’s house; another fragment landed in her house.2 Out of this worldview The stunning encounter with an extraterrestrial rock left Ruth ruffled and contemplating the meaning of life. According to scientists who studied Ruth’s space rock, it would have lost approximately 90% of its mass during its trip through the atmosphere, burning at 2,000oC (3,600oF), while travelling at up to 50 times the speed of sound.2 Such observable facts demolish ideas about Earth life arriving by meteorites (panspermia), because bacteria (even if they could hide inside meteorites) would never survive the heat of entry.3 By the time the meteorite landed on Hamilton’s pillow, thankfully, it would have cooled enough to handle.2 Hamilton stated: “l’m just totally amazed over the fact that it is a star that came out of the sky, it’s maybe billions of years old.” 4 Such ideas about the supposed history of rocks are based mainly on radiometric dating techniques. These rely on assumptions about the…