Monday, March 5, 2012

GLOBAL FLOOD – CONTINENTAL DRIFT (Plate tectonics) PART IV



God has blessed us with another beautiful morning! Unlike the awful wind we had just the other day! It was blowing so hard the dirt drifted across roads and pastures getting into everything!

So if wind can blow dirt around like that, did it have a hand in continental drift? Just how does plat tectonics (continental drift) fit in with the Noachian flood?

The answer to the first question is…nothing. The wind has nothing to do with continental drift. The answer to the second question is a little more complicated. There are four theories about plate tectonics. Some I’m sure you are familiar with. Let us refresh our memories a bit:

First is the theory of uniformitarian (evolutionary) plate tectonics. It is the one learned in public schools and explains many global features, such as ocean floor trenches and hardened-magma, sediment-free, mid-ocean ridges. The above mention theory states that once there was only a single continent; Pangea. Through eons of time, this continent split apart and the pieces drifted across the earth's surface  on the top of deeply buried molten rock. They moved around and collided together to form the geography we know today.

Second, nonuniformitarian plate tectonics, on the other hand, refers to continental plate drift that occurred faster than 4 to 5 centimeters per year, which is the currently observed rate. It started with Pangea, which spilt apart and collided, all caused by a cataclysmic event, like a global flood. The result would be the continents as we know them today.

Third. "True polar wander" refers to the possibility that the mantle, and the plates drifting atop it, shifted so that the North Pole became relocated. During this unstable time period, the north and south poles could rotate about an axis through the plane of the equator fast enough to be able to cause several complete flips of the earth in regards to the spin axis (almost like a gyro). This could easily have happened during the few months of the Flood. Rotational instability would also make sense of magnetic field reversal data.

The fourth and newest theory is nonuniformitarian plate tectonics and true polar wander coupled with the utilization of a completely different time scale. A biblically-based time
scale (see table below). This theory came about as an explanation for the formation of animal and insect tracks. The previous theories were based on the secular interpretation of data from the standard geologic timescale and tried to fit the biblical geological events of the earth’s history into it. The problem is, then animal tracks within the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras conflict with simulated flood computer models. Thus, this fourth theory is a solution to the problem because it rejects the secular assumptions of the timetable from the plate tectonic theories. In this latest rendition of catastrophic plate tectonics, the split up of the antediluvian earth occurs at the Rodinian supercontinent (the Rodinia supercontinent being pre-flood earth). Thus, Pangea formed from the Rodinian remains, and broke apart all in submarine conditions during the flood. After the submarine breakup of Pangea, the submerged continents drifted extremely quickly. Once the floodwaters receded, the post-flood continent configuration is as it appears in the present day.


   Standard Geological Timescale        ////  Bible-based Geological Timescale
Eon
Era
Period
/
/
/
/
/
Time
frame
Division
Tracks
Made
During
Flood deposition
Rock
Record Trackway
Development
Phanerozoic
Cenozoic
Neogene
/
Present
Upper

Animal /man
 
Paleogene
/
Age
Middle

Tracks
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
/
Lower

Possible
Jurassic
/
Ice
Upper

Triassic
/
Age
Middle

Paleozoic
Permian
/
Lower

Pennsylvanian
/
Flood
Upper

No tracks
Mississippian
/
Event
Middle

No tracks
Devpmoam
/
Lower
Track
Animal/man
Silurian
/
Antedil-

Formation
Tracks
Ordovician
/
uvian


Possible
Cambrian
/
/
(pre-flood
world)


Proterozoic
Precambrian

/
Creation
Day 7


/
Week
Day 6


/
Day 5

'”
Achean

/
Day 4

No

/
Day 3

Tracks

/
Day 2

Possible

/
Day 1


Reconstructions of the ancient earth are constantly being amended because they are based on vague clues. But as more clues are discovered, computer models are able to put the pieces together in the most logical order. This, of course, reflects the intelligent design of a God of order.

God Bless and enjoy until next time!
Willow

Reference:
Froede, Carl R. Jr., Creation Matters Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2012, pgs. 1-4.

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