What caused the change?
The present condition of planet Earth supports the real possibility that Earth has in its past experienced violent cataclysm. The unique characteristic of the Pacific Ocean’s basin supports the probability that an extra-solar body impacted the Earth. The impact may have occurred in the time of the biblical flood. Ancient flood narratives also point to such a probability. The extra-solar body’s collision with the earth conformed to the laws established by the Creator before He began His creating activity. The impact was on the opposite side of the planet from where Noah built the ark. Therefore, he and his family could not have seen the impact but only its consequences.
The angle of the violent impact was such that the strongest shock wave traveled west and south-west, creating the Earth’s highest mountain range, the Himalayas, and south-pacific parts of the Earth’s surface observed today. A slightly lesser magnitude shock wave traveled east. The eastward shockwave created the Earth’s second-highest mountains, the Rockies, and the Andes. The two shock waves collided on the opposite side of the point of an extra-solar body’s impact, where the mid-Atlantic Oceans trench is. The mid-Atlantic crack in the Earth’s crust stretches from North to South. Tectonic plates on each side of the mid-Atlantic break are still tending apart, away from each other. The rebounding shock waves created the rest of the Earth’s mountains. Some volcanic mountains, such as Mount Ararat and a few others, existed before the flood. They are still standing in the region between the Black and Caspian seas. This region is the area where Noah built his ark. That region is known as the ancient Urartu Region. The ark rested on one of the peaks in the Urartu region. Tradition names Mount Ararat as the ark’s resting place because it is the tallest in that region.
Most of the mountains observed today resulted from violent upheaval. Therefore, the conclusion that an extra-solar body’s impact created them is highly probable. In the Rocky Mountains, we can see in some places that parts of the Earth’s crust are standing at various angles, and some are vertical. Before the impact, the Earth’s crust had to be mostly horizontal. The extra-solar body’s impact pushed a part of the Earth’s crust toward the south pole region. Water covered the south and the north polar regions before the asteroid impact.
the consequences of the Earth-asteroid collision? Read the next Blog.
