hypothesis for several reasons. One of the primary objections to the impact hypothesis for creation scientists is that requires a huge number of large impactors to travel through the entire solar system so as to hit all of the rocky planets and moons from every direction in only a few thousand years, and to now be almost completely absent from the solar system. This seems implausible. (Spencer, 2013) There are a fairly large number of asteroids but almost none of them of any size seem to be on trajectories that would impact the planets and moons of the solar system. Another weakness of the impact hypothesis is that it does a poor job of explaining lunar rilles, off center central peaks, central peaks with summit pits, irregular mare patches, massive thermal expansion cracks, and massive volcanoes. If all of these phenomena are best explained by heat from accelerated nuclear decay, then why also appeal to a massive swarm of impactors when they are not necessary to explain the evidence that we see? Indeed, other creationists have already proposed that craters are the result of accelerated radioactive decay – for instance, in 2000 Jim Hovis proposed that this internal heat caused the craters to form instead of impacts (Hovis, 2000). IV. CONCLUSION We have now examined a great deal of evidence which strongly suggests that the equivalent of approximately 4.5 billion years of accelerated decay occur throughout the solar system on or after Creation Day 4 in what appears to be one event that lasted for approximately one year. We also see that all of the heat from that decay was necessary to cause massive geological changes throughout the solar system, meaning that it was not miraculously removed. In addition to causing massive thermal expansion cracks, massive lava flows, the tectonic resurfacing of Venus, and other phenomena, this extreme pulse of heat energy likely also caused the vast majority of the craters seen on the rocky planets and moons of the solar system, contrary to the view that is currently popularly held among the secular scientific community. Perhaps those early creation scientists were right about the volcanic origin of craters, just as they were right about the global Flood. Further study could be done on Earth by searching a variety of steam explosion craters for ‘impact signatures’ to see whether or not they truly are impact signatures. Also, more drilling could theoretically be done around the Berringer Crater to better characterize the layer of iron-rich rock was previously found in a borehole – perhaps by looking outside the crater a commercially useful quantity of iron could finally be found and mined. REFERENCES Braden, S., J. D. Stopar, M. S. Robinson, S. J. Lawrence, C.H van der Boghert, H. Hiesinger. 2014. Evidence for Basaltic Volcanism on the Moon Within the Past 100 Million Years. Nature Geoscience, 7(11):787791. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2252 Carter, R. 2012. Ancient Coral Growth Layers. Journal of Creation, 26(3):50-53. Figure 17. Lunar Basalt with Gas Bubbles STERNBERG Craters and cracks 2023 ICC 26
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