A collision 4.5 billion years ago nearly destroyed our planet but instead helped start path to life
National Post
June 13, 2014
Joseph Brean
Creation stories tend to be outlandish, in keeping with the near impossibility of explaining why the world is the way it is — from the week-long labours of the Old Testament God, to the eternal cycles of the Hindu creator Brahma, to Raven’s metaphysical trickery in Pacific Northwest First Nations tradition.
Fanciful as they are, however, these myths have nothing on modern science, whose creation story — which already involves a mysterious Big Bang, perhaps one of many creations ex nihilo in infinite succession — this week got even weirder.
At a geophysics conference in California, a series of discoveries was announced that show — not for the first time, but in unprecedented detail — the Earth as we know it today was born of a violent collision between two ancient planets, so forceful it reduced both to molten rock and silicate vapour, and nearly blasted both into cosmic smithereens.
To: rickmichaels
A terrible F5 tornado blew through here recently. When I got to the disaster scene I found a table impeccably set with silver, crystal, porcelain China, and starched linens, a five course French dinner on the sideboard, and a 1982 Chateau Margaux waiting alongside. With a pitcher of Manhattans.
What’s the matter, don’t you believe in SCIENCE?
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miracles - miracles - miracles ... tooth fairy liberals --- easter bunny - santa claus too !
