Posted on 09/25/2020 3:17:10 PM PDT by fishtank
Origin of Tectonic Plates Best Explained by the Flood
BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D. * |
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
A new study published in Nature Communications claims to have figured out how the tectonic plates may have originated.1 It’s been over 50 years since the theory of plate tectonics became an accepted idea in the scientific community. But, secular scientists are still struggling to explain both the origin of the continental crust and the tectonic plates.2
Earth is unique in our solar system because it is the only planet with tectonic plates. As far as we know, it may be the only planet in the universe to possess these features. This creates another conundrum that secular scientists also cannot explain: why is Earth so unusual?
Chunan Tang, from the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China, and a group of multinational geoscientists, admitted:
Fifty years after the foundational works establishing the geometries, kinematics, and mechanics of plate tectonics, we still lack a consensus understanding of how the plate tectonic system initiated.1
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
"But did they really solve the origin of the tectonic plates? Their model merely showed that cracks could develop under the conditions that they established. It is highly unlikely this was the way Earth’s plates originated. If so, why didn’t similar-sized planets, like Venus and Mars, develop massive rifts—and eventually plates—as well?
And their model also fails to explain how the subduction process—when one tectonic plate is pulled under another—began and even how plate motion was initiated. Tang and his colleagues wrote:
The initiation of a global network of rifts, as modeled here, is distinct from plate tectonics because plate tectonics includes creation of new lithosphere at rifts and destruction of old lithosphere at subduction zones. Absent an expanding Earth hypothesis, a global rift network is unsustainable: Earth’s surface cannot extend without balancing contraction [subduction].1
It all comes down to worldview. Most of the secular community denies the account of the global Flood as described in Genesis. They have had to create a narrative—a fictional story—to try and explain the tectonic plates we observe today.
In contrast, God has told us that the Flood began with the bursting of the fountains of the great deep in Genesis 7:11. It seems most likely that this initiated the plates on Earth. Movement of these newly formed plates destroyed the original ocean crust through subduction and created an entirely new seafloor. This new, hot and lower-density ocean crust pushed the water of the ocean higher and higher until the entire earth was covered with water.4 Today, we merely see the residual effects of this rapid and catastrophic activity.
The Bible is historically accurate. It also gives us insight into the origin of the tectonic plates. No computer model can compete with the truth of God’s Word."
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Could the force of the impact that created the debris that ultimately coalesced into the Moon also have created the cracks between the plates?
‘The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth,’
Since God is all-knowing, why would he do something regrettable?
Yet another crazy convoluted baloney to prop up their fairy tales. I am so comforted that my faith in God and our savior, Jesus Christ does not depend on this nonsense. God is great, these bozos, not so much.
Yet another crazy convoluted baloney to prop up their fairy tales. I am so comforted that my faith in God and our savior, Jesus Christ does not depend on this nonsense. God is great, these bozos, not so much.
God is great, you have said correctly. His word endures forever. Jesus in the gospel of Matthew mentions the flood. I believe God’s word.
Think he regrets making you?
Sounded a lot better in your head huh?
Best not to quote out of context trying to look intelligent & edgy. It never works.
A good question..
Being all-knowing doesn’t mean that He made little puppets without any capacity to make their own choices. Instead, he created us with a desire to know him and love Him.
When we don’t, it grieves him (just like or own children grieve us when they make bad choices).
The flood is an historical fact, confirmed by other cultures and religions and by the geological record. But, there were many other similar floods, all of them only a fraction of the total scientific understanding of tectonic forces. Keep the faith.
I take that you have no answer ...
‘Since God is all-knowing, why would he do something regrettable?’
good question, if one would take the time to consider it...
‘When we don’t, it grieves him (just like or own children grieve us when they make bad choices).’
yes, except we don’t drown them, or anybody else, including children in the womb, for grieving us...
I am going to take a bit of an issue with this article and it relates to the onset and end of the Younger Dryas period (Great Flood). I subscribed to the Impact theory that ended the Younger Dryas...either an asteriod or comet, but at least a bollide of sorts, more in likely coming from the Constellation Taurus. Evidence around the world indicates some sort of impact occured. It is believed that the impact hit in the Hudson Bay Area melting the miles of ice that caused rising sea-levels...etc.
The process, as best as I can figure after reading the scientific papers and listening to speakers is that the event happened over a period of about 1300 years.
First, around 11,800 years ago there was the first impact which meltwater more in likely changed ocean currents bringing on the Younger Dryas (named after a flower that only grew in the alpine/icy regions of Europe). Then, about 1300 years after that there was another event-whether another swing of the remanents of the Taurid stream, or a solar event—The reformed ice in North America was melted in a very swift event that caused massive flooding of a scale that is best described by gelogist Randall Carlson. This brought the ocean levels up by at least 100 m (400 ft). Imagine that the great archeological finds are actually underwater.
Combine the record (Greenland Ice Cores), the date of the Black Matt, (a layer in the soil that indicates a great burning of biomass worldwide) and the history as laid out by Plato in his recitation of Salon’s visit to Egypt...we can see that Atlantis did exist and more in likey disappeared as the weight of the ice melted and like a balloon, the earth rebounded into shape which meant Atlantis going under the waves as North America rose back up...
Regarding tectonic plates. IIRC Mars does not have a molten core—I don’t remember about Venus. I believe there is a connection between the plates and the molten core...
Awesome. After 2 years of buying ticktes and having to cancel... we finally made it to The Ark Encounter & The Creation Museum. It brought tears to my eyes to think of the firey judgement to come. So many people I could have at least tried to reach. Just seeing The Door that closed and knowing the Open Door we have now, will not last forever.
We actually got to see Ken Ham and several other speakers.
“yes, except we don’t drown them, or anybody else, including children in the womb, for grieving us...”
True enough. We all have choices to make and live with, though. As far as children are concerned, that’s a tough one to understand why a loving God would choose such a young age to (as I’ve heard it said) move them from this world to the next. If it’s true that children ‘get a pass’ on not having accepted God for who He is until they are old enough to understand what the ramifications of that, then their eternity in Heaven just starts a little sooner.
I appreciate your questions, IrishBrigade. I fear that I don’t do any of them justice in reply, but God willing, I try.
God has the power to know all. . .He also has the power to not know if He so chooses. Because God sought a relationship of love with humanity . . and because love requires trust. . .God choose to trust, rather than to control and thus, gave us freedom that we may enter into a relationship of love with God. . .He trusted that we would be true and, thus, had no need to know if we would be true. . . .that’s the volatile element in love. . .trust can be violated. When we violated his trust, God grieved and “regretted.”
“God choose to trust,”
I guess he blew that one.
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