Abstract
The disks of gas, dust and debris recently observed with modern infrared and millimetre wave instruments in nearby star systems are considered to act as locators to large colliding bodies. These observations are problematic for the evolutionary nebula theory of the formation of planetary systems, but can be easily interpreted from a creationist worldview. I propose that these cratering bodies are analogues for the 'waters above', which in part were used by God during the Curse and the Flood. In this view, the 'waters above' would represent all the bodies, large and small, that lay beyond Neptune in our solar system, including all the cometary material, mostly made of water ice. The total amount today only equals about 0.43 M (Earth masses), but before the Curse it may have been as much as 100 times more. Some of these large colliders left their mark on the earth's surface as impact craters, seen today from space. Some may even have triggered the Flood. Spectroscopic analysis of the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Quaoar reveals that its surface comprises crystalline water ice and ammonia hydrate (NH₃.H₂O). Both of these should have been destroyed by energetic particle irradiation over timescales of 10⁷ years, so their existence is evidence for a young solar system and against a 5-billion-year timescale. In addition, Quaoar's spectrum, in the 1 to 2.5 um band, is very similar to that of Charon, the moon of Pluto, which has long been suspected of being a captured KBO. Evidence is thus mounting that these objects may be the remains of a watery halo as in the 'waters above'.