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Does a GLOBAL FLOOD truly seem like the BEST explanation for seashells on mountains?

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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics has been known for 200 years. They just tried to change it into a uniformitarian Plate Tectonics theory and deny that it was caused by a flood.

We have evidence that the Pacific plate has been moving at a snail's pace for the last 70 million years.

The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands

Catastrophic plate tectonics is falsified by mountains of evidence, evidence that you will continue to ignore no doubt.
 
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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics has been known for 200 years. They just tried to change it into a uniformitarian Plate Tectonics theory and deny that it was caused by a flood. I know flood deposits when I see it and that is what this is.


I think plate tectonics predates Noah's flood, although the flood may be responsible for some crustal fracturing and subsequent earthquakes in odd places as the earth rebounds from the weight of the floodwater.
 
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I think plate tectonics predates Noah's flood, although the flood may be responsible for some crustal fracturing and subsequent earthquakes in odd places as the earth rebounds from the weight of the floodwater.

How could it when the flood didn't happen?
 
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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics has been known for 200 years.

Reference??

They just tried to change it into a uniformitarian Plate Tectonics theory and deny that it was caused by a flood.
Geologists determined back in the mid 1800s that there is no evidence of a global flood in the geological record. History of the Collapse of Flood Geology and a Young Earth PhilVaz Phil Philip Phillip Porvaznik

I know flood deposits when I see it and that is what this is.


Are you a geologist?

Do geologists deny there are flood deposits in the geological column?
 
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If you want to use an interpretation of Scripture that is shown to be false by the evidence in the reality around us, go ahead. All you are doing is insisting that the Bible is false.
You don't believe in the Bible anyway, so what do you care?

I was addressing people who at least CLAIM to believe in the bible, yet consistently show that they don't believe a single thing mentioned in the bible.

The world around us could not possibly come into existence by any natural means. All theories of origination share the commonality that they are impossible; negated by the laws of physics some believe to be soverign.

The fact is, God created the universe in its mature state. You can't accept that, but your inability to grasp the truth doesn't change the truth. From the grass to the trees, and from ants to zebras, everything that exists was created in it's mature state, ready to go forth and multiply.

It contradicts everything that science teaches, but then what about the Bible doesn't?
 
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Geologists determined back in the mid 1800s that there is no evidence of a global flood in the geological record.
The global flood took place 64 million years ago and there is plenty of evidence that the world at that time was destoryed. There was no global flood in the mid 1800's so of course your not going to find any evidence from that time period. You got to know when to look.
 
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Talk is cheap, produce your evidence that plate tectonics was not a catastrophic event in the beginning. While your at it, tell the people in Japan that plate tectonics is not responsible for catastrophic events today.

Already supplied the evidence. We can look at the magma plume that is responsible for the Hawaiian archipelago and the Emporer seamounts which demonstrate that the Pacific plate has been moving at a snail's pace for the last 70 million years:

The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands

Also, the megathrust fault that caused the Japanise tsunami is due to stored energy from very slow movement of the plate, not catastrophic plate tectonics.
 
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There were no humans around 65 million years ago, so that is obviously not the flood we are talking about, and there is no evidence for a global flood 65 million years ago anyway. The Deccan Traps were forming during that time and they show no evidence of forming underwater:

Deccan Traps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Evidence please.
 
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You don't believe in the Bible anyway, so what do you care?

You do believe in the Bible, so why don't you care?

The world around us could not possibly come into existence by any natural means.

Evidence?


We observe a 4.5 billion year geologic history, not maturity. That is the fact. Maturity does not require radiohaloes in rocks, or specific ratios of isotopes.

It contradicts everything that science teaches, but then what about the Bible doesn't?

It contradicts the creation itself.
 
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Hawaiian archipelago and the Emporer seamounts which demonstrate that the Pacific plate has been moving at a snail's pace for the last 70 million years:
It does not matter how fast the plates have been moving AFTER the flood. Also the Hawaiian Islands are Volcanic so they were not a part of Pangaea. As long as we are here, go ahead and give me YOUR theory on what caused Pangaea to break up if it was not water. Then tell me why your theory is better then Dr Wise's theory that the break up of Pangaea was due to a flood and a lot of water. Do you have a PhD from Harvard? Did you study under Gould? I mean I know he adapted the theory to his YEC beliefs. But that does not change the mechanism at all. That just means there is a time frame difference between GAP, YEC & OEC. They tend to look at creation from a difference perspective using a different time frame.
 
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You want evidence that the dinosaurs had teeth
and that they were eating each other?
What is it you want evidence for?

Evidence that Noah and Satan had anything to do with it, for starters. Then you need to supply evidence for a global flood 65 million years ago.
 
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There were no humans around 65 million years ago, so that is obviously not the flood we are talking about
I am telling you what creationists believe. I know that you want to misrepresent creationism. That is par for the course. I am not here to prove anything. Other then that evolutionists misrepresent what Creationists believe.
 
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It does not matter how fast the plates have been moving AFTER the flood. Also the Hawaiian Islands are Volcanic so they were not a part of Pangaea.

There was no flood, unless you want to present evidence to the contrary. Also, the evidence demonstrates that the Pacific plate has been chugging along at centimeters per year for the last 70 million years BETWEEN NORTH AMERICA AND ASIA.

As long as we are here, go ahead and give me YOUR theory on what caused Pangaea to break up if it was not water. Then tell me why your theory is better then Dr Wise's theory that the break up of Pangaea was due to a flood and a lot of water.

It is the same cause as we see now, a combination of thermal flows in the mantle and cold slab pull. This is consistent with all of the evidence while Dr. Wise just makes stuff up.


The entire field of geologists who have PhD's disagree with Dr. Wise.
 
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I am telling you what creationists believe. I know that you want to misrepresent creationism. That is par for the course. I am not here to prove anything. Other then that evolutionists misrepresent what Creationists believe.

So no creationist claims that the global flood occurred about 4,400 years ago and that humanity is about 6,000 years old?
 
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Evidence that Noah and Satan had anything to do with it, for starters. Then you need to supply evidence for a global flood 65 million years ago.
Plate tectonics is the evidence for the global flood. Again, what is your theory? I hear that evolutionists have hundreds of theories to try to explain the break up of Pangaea. I said that Noah's flood was a shadow of the flood that took place back in the days of the dinosaurs. Perhaps you need to do a study to understand what shadow and types are in the Bible. I said that Satan caused the dinosaurs to bite and devour and eat one another. That is why God destroyed the world at that time. That is what Creationists believe and there is no reason to have to "prove" any of it to anyone. You are free to have your own beliefs for why the dinosaurs were destroyed and why Pangaea was broken up into the nations that we find today. Science tends to give us the facts on WHAT happened. Then we read in the Bible to find out WHY these events happened. So we can learn what God's plan and purpose is in all of this. I do not think any of this contradicts science in any way, so it should not be a problem for you at all. The physical evidence supports Creationism.
 
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