The Asteroid Belt and Its Youth

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​Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit or travel in space and are smaller than planets or moons. In addition, asteroids are commonly irregular shaped and not spherical shaped as most planets and moons are. The largest collection of asteroids in the solar system is located in what is called the asteroid belt, which orbits the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Some believe that the asteroid belt is composed of the remnants of a former planet that exploded or broke apart, but astronomers estimate the total mass of the asteroid belt is only four percent of the Earth's moon. One percent of that four percent is composed of the asteroid Ceres, which has recently been reclassified as a dwarf planet. Most evolutionists believe that the asteroid belt comprises of pieces of rocky material that did not form into a planet during the formation of the solar system. However, according to the evolutionist's own "solar nebula theory" of planetary formation, hot clouds of dust and gas randomly clumped together over millions of years to form the planets and moons. Therefore, evolutionists have trouble explaining how the many small pieces of the asteroid belt did not clump together to form a planet over their time scale of millions and billions of years. Researchers have noted that collisions between asteroids in the belt are "continuously grinding the bodies down." (1) Therefore, the asteroid belt should have been grounded into dust after all of these collisions during its proposed billions of years of existence in the evolutionist time frame. Since this has not happened yet, creationists propose that the asteroid belt was created within the 6,000 year time frame. In addition, creationist Dr. Walt Brown has also proposed the theory that asteroids, meteors, and comets originated from the Earth and were catastrophically ejected during the opening of the springs of the deep mentioned in the Book of Genesis (7:11) that helped trigger the global flood, which would give further evidence of their youth (2).

(1) DeMeo, F. E. and B. Carry. 2014. Solar System evolution from compositional mapping of the asteroid belt. Nature. 505 (7485): 629-634.
​(2) Brown, Walt. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood.