I suppose, as (one of) the BABB's "resident" Creationists, I should be expected to join battle here, but I think I'll spare you all. My personal belief is that the Biblical account of Creation is correct, whether or not I can justify every single point. I admit that I have not the knowledge to counter every single argument against the Biblical account, so rather than trying to mount up support for the Creation Science site's list, or counter all the rebuttals, I'll sit this one out over here on the "Group W" bench, playing with the pencils and forms. But you know where I stand, er, sit, anyway.
I do want to supply an answer to a point raised by David Hall, however:
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On 2002-04-15 09:44, David Hall wrote:
...And I have no idea what this "fountains of the great deep" is. Are they claiming that all meteorites originated from the Earth and were launched into space by some supernatural means?
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David (and anyone else interested), the "fountains of the great deep" are part of the Genesis Flood account:
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007:011 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
007:012 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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There are, you won't be surprised to learn, somewhat different interpretations of exactly what they are, but the most common interpretation is that they have something to do with breaking up the continents (the Creation account specifies that the dry land was all gathered in one spot from the water, which is obviously not the case today).
So (and I'm not trying to affirm or support this, merely interpret it from Biblical to astronomical terminology), the site is claiming that during this event at the start of the Flood, rocks containing terrestrial "baggage" were flung out into space and have been returning from then until now, as meteorites. That is, meteorites do not have an extra-terrestrial source, but are pieces of the Earth returning from a humongous ballistic path.
So, David, the answer to your quoted question, is "Yes, that's exactly what they are claiming."
My personal? I hadn't thought of meteorites in connection with that, but it makes some sense to me, so I neither deny it nor insist on it being a part of my world-picture.
The (pass me another pencil, Jethro, I've chewed all the eraser off this one) Curtmudgeon