I'm a retired Systems Engineer and Basic Research Program Coordinator from the worlds largest research lab. Basic research, also called pure research or fundamental research, has the scientific research aim to improve scientific theories for improved understanding or prediction of natural or other phenomena.

I collect samples study impact science and apply all this to form a reasonable description of the impact event at Frankewing, TN and surrounding counties. 

Although I have contacted all local universities, and state geologist none have presented any reasonable explanation for the specimens I find. I often am told there was an industrial forge in my area which is ludicrous in rural isolated historical agricultural TN locations and I am an expert on industrial engineering which they are not. If you could find industrial slag all over the rural south why was there that war over economic identity, you know "the war of northern aggression."

I use a forensic not geologic method as if solving a "cold case." I find very little supportable or even explanative from geologist concerning the so called Howell, TN impact structure which really is centered at Frankewing, TN. Howell is an exposed crater wall breccia pipe. 

I live in the crater at Lake Logan, TN. and that is important for research. Meteor craters need advocates. 

Can I date this impact event? No. The best I can do is look at the event in sequence with other events. For example the last research group was confused at Howell because the coral layer is in the breccia which has implications for a confused time because you have both shallow water and deeper water conditions in the combined rubble. If you back out to Pulaski you can see the impact came after the coral but close in that all got smashed together. What is clear as you back out from such a big event is the Mississippian chert was both formed and forming when the meteor struck. Also was a fluid Chattanooga shale pushed out like an unconformity in it. The Chattanooga dark black iron oxide Fe3O4 has a rather long concurrent sequence. (see chart on left)

Can geologist date the earth? No. How would that be verified?  For example the graph of earth impacts as we know it today has big gaps, and made up of politically approved impacts. The Frankewing, TN impact is not presently on the curve but is an anomaly. Big, fast, low, and high metal content at a later period. "At a later period" is the best you can state. An event in reference to others. None of which were observed or can be repeated. 

Can astro-physics date the universe? Yes and No, the static on old TV sets is the left over energy from the Big Bang that is now microwaves? You have to know that for us to see a portion of the vastness of the universe requires that light to be arriving here. But light or degraded light microwaves would have long ago passed us by from the Big Bang. While we are receiving is impact shock waves from the impact cascade. They come in all frequencies hence not the specific  background noise. Or is empty space a battery for storing energy? Yes that is the predicted concurrence that wins Nobel Prize.  However, time is a dependent and movement is the only overarching physics. Mind or thought has movement and precedes the physical universe linking what we know of time to Mind Time.   

Does life evolved? Certainly not. Physics would dictate that things decay rather than get more complex. The existence of a unique self healing planet with life is extraordinary and demands a causal uncaused managing Creator. The fundamental rule of biology is life comes from life. 99 % of species have become extinct. 

 Belief in a causeless life universe is just an unformed question. 

Do I believe the Bible to be correct? Yes. As scientific literature goes the Bible is doing much better than the constantly changing opinions of men. The Frankewing TN Impact is an example of the 85 year entire body of published literature being incorrect, including the name.

Having said that, the Bible is not an astro physics or geology book. I would want to know and appreciate God in study of the Bible and science. The geology of any specific local area is a book you may have to write yourself. The word recipe is not in the Bible but banquet is mentioned many times. 

Calamity and geology. - Looking for evidence of global flood or cosmic collisions is fine in context. Certain events make placeholders like a bookmark. Other events, not calamities also mark geology like here a coral sea which was present before it disappeared and the Frankewing, TN impact occurred. 

Can you find a reference to meteor impacts on earth in the Bible? Perhaps. Take for example Nahum, Chapter 1, Verse 6. "Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him."

Do I agree with current geology theory? No. We are in a cusp of geology thought. In the 1930's the USGS said the moon has impact craters but the earth does not. Today we have the earth as an impact accretion body but few craters and few effects. Mars has over a half million impact craters and is half the size of Earth. 

Tectonic theory is just a transition theory to explain more than the previous theory geo synchronism which did not explain crust movements. 

Tectonic theory does not explain Earth accretion and size changes and related effects. 

Impact accretion theory does explain all Earth phenomena. Earth crust movements are the resolving of a million impacts including the protoplanet size type that formed the earth. Other planets concur with this theory as they do not have floating plates just resolving stresses. While there may or may not be a convection crust moving pattern to some small degree the big faults and earthquakes in non plate areas rejects the plate tectonic argument. Most Nobel Laurets (65%) are Christians. The fundamental of geology raft/plate tectonics was produced by Wegener a physicist. Dating and connecting strata by same fossils was originated by a canal engineer William Smith. The beginning of earth impact science was brought about by a mining engineer, Barringer. Excluding Christians and non-geologist from your thought club will leave you little to work with.

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