Meteorite Patterns and Storytelling
The way most people understand science is often called operational science, dealing with things in the present. This is contrasted with historical (forensic) science, which uses things found in the present in an attempt to reconstruct the past. Which do you think applies to patterns in meteorites? Widmanstätten pattern in Gibeon meteorite credit: Flickr / James St. John ( CC by 2.0 ) By the way, the distinction between these two types of science was not "made up by YECs" as some anti-creationists asseverate. The distinction has been around for quite a few years . There is something called a Widmanstätten pattern that is found in iron-nickel meteorites. Let's engage our think bones for a few moments. What do you have? A meteorite with a pattern. When does it exist? In the present, like us. How do those patterns with the long name form? That can be determined by other metals that have been heated and then cooled. Do these pattern in meteorites take millions o