Overestimating Chicxulub for Tsunamis, Earthquakes

May as well learn to comfortably spell and pronounce Chicxulub, since secularists keep milking it to generate more deep-time stories. That is the place offshore of the Yucatán Peninsula down Mexico way where some folks say a big space rock (asteroid, comet, meteorite) struck and caused the dinosaurs to take a dirt nap.

The evidence is not compelling that something that big and powerful struck, but maybe something smaller actually hit. Secular scientists are now adding to the lore: The impact caused massive tsunamis and earthquakes.

Big waves on the sea, PxHere

In "Rejecting the Dinosaur Extinction Consensus," we saw that scientists are reversing some claims about how the Chicxulub crash caused volcanic activity, which contributed to dinosaur demise. Other scientists are using that event and making it bigger. It supposedly caused earthquakes and tsunamis. However, the presentations are incomplete, leaving out some important details about what else would have happened.

Notice again how uniformitarian geologists who insist on slow and gradual processes over long periods of time will occasionally use catastrophism in one form or another. They are admitting that there are weaknesses in their beliefs. Unfortunately, they do not "follow where the science leads" because the evidence leads to the hugely catastrophic Genesis Flood. Creation science Flood models offer far better explanations than those promoted by secularists — including earthquakes, volcanism, and tsunamis.

Two separate studies claim massive tsunamis and earthquakes from an asteroid impact profoundly affected the rock record. One research team modeled a 1.5 km (1 mile) high water wave that propagated across the ocean following the Chicxulub impact, causing sweeping erosion across the ocean floor. Another report asserted the same impact generated a mega-earthquake that caused twisted and contorted sedimentary layering around the world. However, claims of a massive dinosaur-killing impact in the Yucatan Peninsula are not compelling. Instead, these global phenomena are better explained by the global Flood described in Genesis.

To read the rest, sail over to "Massive Tsunamis Generated by the Flood, Not an Asteroid."