Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact

Or they actually saw it happen and all that crap about evolution if just that, a bunch of crap.

^ lol

or, the more likely case is it was a legend that was passed down for many generations about a story someone made up from events witnessed. You know there are reasons why legends are called legends. They are stories! Because some events seem to coralate with past events does not mean they where witnessed or even have anything to do with them. So a big crator is where a legend refers to, maybe another comet/astroid fell in that exact spot, smaller than first, and spawned the legend. But thanks for the cool crator pic!

on another note. We don't go around looking for unicorns in europe because of a legend about one. or how about trying to find dragons in europe, hadn't found one yet! Wait maybe we should find a gingerbread man that can run faster than human beings! They are stories/legends.

Sooo apes can't communicate with one another? That's pretty ignorant.

There is a stark difference between proven fact and legends.

Darn it Azorus!! Nessie is real!!

highly unlikely, but maybe, very slight possiblity at one time a dinosouar that looked like nessie could have been alive, but very unlikely.

Now to look for the giant baby bones.

Azorus, Nessie is not a dinosaur, she is a very misunderstood monster. Completely different.

Common misconception though I won't hold it against you.

Unicorns are real, we call them rhinocerouses now - but before modern taxonomy calling that thing a horse with a horn in the forhead is no more a streach than calling a "river horse" a hippopatymus. If you never saw one, but drew a creature that was a "large, fearsome horse with a single horn from its forehead" you could easily take such a discription and draw the fatastical misrepresentation.

On the other hand, there is always the option that there was a more traditional unicaorn animal that went extinct. There are plenty of members of the antelope family that come close enough not to be able to rule out the traditional creature on biologic feasibility alone.

As for dragons, oriental dragons are large flying serpents. Good thing that there are no large snakes or wingless-flying snakes in Asia - ooops, wait, there are! (Admittedly they are two very distinct snakes, but you can find large pythons and flying snakes in the same jungles).

Most early representations of European dragon are also rather serpentine (and not just from Judeo-Christian influence, but from pre-evangalized works as well, ie Beowulf).

There are plenty of large modern reptiles that would be more than sufficient inspirations for dragons without appealing to prehistoric holdovers.

apparently oak knows the difference between "story" and "legend". One is considered a complete fabrication, while the other is just a glorified account of historical events. Theory is not fact either so an Aboriginal account holds some weight as does scientific analysis. Unless Australia was hit with meteorites quite often, I doubt Aboriginees would be able to figure out one struck the earth after all the vegetation and erosion occurred. Instead, I'd ask was it possible that humanity did exist as far back as the dated blast or simply was the analysis dating the incident erroneous.

All you ignorant Christians make us less ignorant Christians look like fools. Psalms teaches us that a day for god is not the same as a day for us and I think the order things happen in the creation story closely mirrors the order scientists think evolution happened. From dust god created us but he never told us how many steps it took or what he made the dust into before it became us. God is not stupid and I don't think he senselessly duplicated work; he expounded upon simple creations to make more advanced ones. He created life so perfectly that it would adapt to the changes around it and in a manner so graceful that some look at it and fail to see the conductors had. You see their loss of faith and reject it knowing it to be wrong but you then reject the glorious knowledge of how god created and governs his kingdom.

Austrailia is know for it's meteor hunting grounds. yes it is hit often by meteors. still a legend.

animemaster-
The Bible also says that God created man in His own image, that we are His children. Why do you have such a hard time believing that God could create the earth and everything on it simply by saying "Let it be created" and being obeyed? Don't you believe that Jesus was the Son of God, that He was able to take upon Himself our sins, died for us, and rose from the dead on the third day, bringing about the resurrection for every person? How can you believe that but think that God has to conform to scientists' pathetic notions of how the earth could have been created? Ignorance has nothing to do with rejecting unfounded atheist fantasies like the evolution of man.

Australia is good meteor hunting area because the land mass is very very old. The oldest rocks on earth are there, so of course there will be a lot of meteor scars and rocks laying about.
Meteors do not hit Australia anymore than any other spot on earth.
Antarctica is another good hunting spot. Dark rocks on white background.
As for the article it seems everyone wants to underestimate the intelligence of the original Australians. Once seeing one meteor come down and leave a crater of whatever size, I'm pretty sure they can put 2 and 2 together and figure out where the other craters came from...sheesh!

Ohboy...Only human beings are arrogant and simpleminded enought to think we have any significance in the grand scheme of the universe. We inhabit a grain of sand on the outer fringe of the Milky Way galaxy, one of a hundred billion or so in the universe. We have as much clout as microbes on an orange. We accept glowing paranormal fairy tale entities but refuse to believe there may be life elsewhere in the cosmos (that would mean we were not the chosen species!).

No wonder we have not been contacted by other life forms; take a long look at what we've become. We can't stop killing each other long enough to evolve into a respectable neighbor. And we do it all in the name of religion. Deal me out; at 73 my ride is about over. I can't say I will miss it.

It was mythological, OR it was confirmed. But: which? Blatantly or deliberately ignorant headlines do not necessarily make ordinary people want to read the article. In fact, I didn't read it. Happy now?

@animemaster
"I think the order things happen in the creation story closely mirrors the order scientists think evolution happened."

Read Genesis, please, before you start calling other Christians "ignorant" in regard to their understanding of their sacred texts. There is essentially no overlap in the order of the Genesis creation story and the standard evolutionary timeline.

Day 1- Earth, Light, Dark
Day 2- Sky and Water
Day 3- Land and Plants
Day 4- Sun, moon, and stars
Day 5- Fish and Birds
Day 6- Land animals (and humans)

There are SEVERAL major concern in the order. Plants before the moon and stars? Birds before land animals?

You can't have your cake and eat it too. You cannot explain away the inconsistencies between the Genesis account and the evolutionary chronology simply by stretching days.

Also... it's not Psalms that talks about God's measure of time... it's II Peter 3:8. Big difference.

This is popular SCIENCE. Shouldn't you people be on SnakesCanTalk.com, watching fox news, or convincing other idiots to give money to your canibal, human sacrificing, zombie worshiping cult? "Less ignorant christians"...... right. We don't go to GodSaidKillMySon.com and bother you. Save those comments for Sunday afternoon around a table at applebees. Although you did get me to join the popsci website, so.....thanks.

jeremiahsnaked...
Neither of those websites exist... I tried them ;-)

Anyway... it's called POPULAR Science for a reason... according to a Harris Poll (2005) 64% of Americans believe that man was specially created by God. Seems pretty popular to me...

(I do fully recognize that the scientific validity of a statement is not in any way related to what percentage of the population accepts it as true- objective truth is not determined by the masses. Perhaps the title "Popular Science" is an oxymoron)

Why is it so difficult to have an open discussion with an informed creationist? (some might claim that this is example of oxymoron as well, but i do disagree)

Fair enough. We both see the others point, and those conversations are tons of fun!

Damn bible thumpers cant you just leave us who have a grip on reality alone? no because you are too Fukkin stuck up. Time for a reality check......Ready.................CHAOS RULES ALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simple as that.

Stop about religion already or CHAOS will shatter your soul and leave you unwhole!!!!!!, i will make sure of it!

Tsk Tsk Tsk You Ignorant Christian fools, The god of yours is NOTHING its has no power over the mind that has ascended above the pathetic chained minds of you and your Piss-on followers, while you grovel at this so called gods feet hoping that he might piss on you so you can bask in its holy flow. those who are atheist or even Buddhist have ascended way beyond your primitive intellect and have relished in the light of truth, we are ruled by the ebb and flow of chaos not this holy light junkie who is depicted as a stoner, so in my professional opinion you people should face reality or you can be lost in the darkness like the rest of the "Believers"..........That is all. Chaos Forever!!!