To the editor:

Every year, I enjoy listening to the Christmas Martyrology being sung before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This year, I discovered there are two versions. The traditional version says creation was 5199 years BC, and Noah’s flood was 2957 years before Christ. A newer version states; “unknown ages from the time when God created the heaven and the earth.” And, “several thousand years after the flood”. A reason given for the newer version was to avoid reinforcing a type of “biblical fundamentalism”.

 Many of us try to avoid being accused of being ‘scientifically illiterate’ Bible thumpers. However, I submit that the ‘thumpers’ version is closer to reality than what ‘main-stream science’ is feeding us today.

 Recent discoveries of soft tissue in dinosaur bones tells me they were probably buried rapidly in far less than a million years ago, thereby avoiding complete tissue decay. Can any experiment show us how soft tissue lasts millions of years?  Rapid burial was probably accomplished by the impact of a 6-mile diameter rock traveling at 12 miles per second, slamming into earth with an energy of some 72 trillion tons of TNT, blasting 25 trillion tons of material into the atmosphere. The shock would have sent 600-mph winds and mega-tsunamis sloshing across the globe, ripping up everything in their path.

All life would have been rapidly buried under silt, rocks and ash. The shock caused the continental plates to break up and slide into the mantle. Earthquakes set off massive volcanic eruptions. Glaciers formed rapidly when sunlight was blocked by atmospheric dust thereby freezing massive rainfalls.  From an anthropology perspective, note Nick Liguori’s “Echoes of Ararat” drawing from some 300 non-Christian native legends referencing some kind of global flood, i.e. a Rosebud Lakota man referring to creating power stomping on earth, which split open in many places with water flowing out of them. This seems to align with Genesis 7:11.

 Could this rock have been a large asteroid?

There’s much more convincing evidence for a young earth, than for the flawed radiometric methodology which produces billions years age of earth.

 Phil  Drietz

Delhi