In a late December post on Sciencemag.org, a freelance Science Journalist's article headline stated, "You are more to get struck by lightning here than anywhere else on earth". The opening paragraph of that article then goes on to say, "If you don’t want to get struck by lightning, avoid open areas and tall objects, as the experts suggest. But if you want to be extra safe, stay away from the middle of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo. Satellite data suggest that one particular square kilometer there—on the northern tip of South America—gets zapped more than 200 times per year"
In addition to helping you to know where not to plan your next vacation, is there more lessons that we can learn from lightning strikes?
Brian Thomas, a science writer for the Institute for Creation Research thinks so. His recent article is entitled, "The Case of the Missing Fulgurites".
"Fulgurites are fossilized lightning strikes. The intense energy from a lightning strike essentially melts the ground. Lightning strikes can fuse rock, clay, or sand into fulgurites shaped like irregular hollow glass tubes."
The point in his article is, that if the earth is old (like 4 billion years old) then there should be an extremely large number of these fossilized lightning strikes. But is that we the date reveals?
Dr. Ron Marks joins me on the broadcast today, to discuss the data and draw some conclusions based upon it, related to the creation of the earth.
Dr. Ron Marks is a Professor of Chemistry at North Greenville University. Before coming to NGU, Dr. Marks served for 20 years as an officer in the US Air Force that including teaching at the US Air Force Academy.
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