what do young earth folks think of this

[Rize]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/1613210&tid=99&tid=14

This is essentially plate tectonics just as scientists expect. Massive earthquake's due to plate movements slowly split continents apart creating new oceans over millions of years.

 

[KerrMetric]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/1613210&tid=99&tid=14

This is essentially plate tectonics just as scientists expect. Massive earthquake's due to plate movements slowly split continents apart creating new oceans over millions of years.

You're asking them to do something that is an anathema to them.

 

[Rize]

Oh well... perhaps the non YEC folks will think for them.

 

[philadiddle]

Oh well... perhaps the non YEC folks will think for them.

8 meters in 3 weeks, that's pretty fast

 

[Jan87676]

 

[Grengor]

What is your sudden fascination in me?
(I hate that picture)

 

[Grengor]

I like this baby picture better, it gets the girls to go "Awwwwwwwww!"

 

[Aron-Ra]

You're asking them to do something that is an anathema to them.

Somehow, my best friend in high school grew up to become a young-earth creationist, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, and the principal of a fundamentalist Christian high school located inside a church. It was very weird meeting him again after so many years, with us both on completely different paths. I tried to explain a hundred proofs that evolution was at least basically true while the fundamentalist thing was fundamentally flawed. None of it had any effect on him whatsoever. Because as I spoke, I saw his eyes glaze over so that his politely-smiling face became eerily mannequin-like. It seemed clear to me that he was rehearsing some mental mantra to prevent him even considering anything I had to say. He told me he would not engage me in a forum like this, nor he said should I expect any YEC to actually address the points and queries I raised as one logically would with almost any other topic. My friend had admitted to me, in his own little way, that he had adopted his school's official motto of deliberately ignoring anything and everything which seemed to contest a narrow dogmatic worship of thier ridiculous fable. Their belief is much more important to them than is the truth, and truth be damned if it turns out not to be what they pretend to 'know' it is.

 

[Merlin]

OK.
An ocean *could* develop slowly.
Why *must* it develop slowly?

 

[Micaiah]

Or chooses to place his faith in God rather than man.

 

[Grengor]

OK.
An ocean *could* develop slowly.
Why *must* it develop slowly?

One reason is gigantic beds of salt. And not just salt, pure salt. It's simply cut up and shipped away by salt companies.

 

[Merlin]

> One reason is gigantic beds of salt. And not just salt, pure salt. It's simply cut up and shipped away by salt companies.

and this matters how?

 

[Trillian]

One reason is gigantic beds of salt. And not just salt, pure salt. It's simply cut up and shipped away by salt companies.

Huh??? I don't understand.

 

[Hydra009]

OK.
An ocean *could* develop slowly.
Why *must* it develop slowly?

Have any examples of seafloor spreading occuring faster? Or a mechanism that would cause plate movement at a much faster rate than is predicted by plate tectonics and observed today?

 

[Hydra009]

Or chooses to place his faith in God rather than man.

And who came up with YEC, God or man?

 

[Rize]

OK.
An ocean *could* develop slowly.
Why *must* it develop slowly?

YEC"s (after realized that seafloor spreading and plate tectonics left too many marks to not have happened) decided it must have all happened during the flood.

Unfortunately that would have had the effect of killing everything in the sea and boiling noah's little ark.

 

[Micaiah]

And who came up with YEC, God or man?

As an atheist, I don't expect you will understand the YEC perpective.

 

[Grengor]

As an atheist, I don't expect you will understand the YEC perpective.

Would that also be applicable to you understanding the Atheist perspective?

 

[Merlin]

Have any examples of seafloor spreading occuring faster? Or a mechanism that would cause plate movement at a much faster rate than is predicted by plate tectonics and observed today?

There is no need.
Recently there was news of a new species of animal found in Bornio.
Does the lack of evidence of this life mean it never existed or coouldn't exist?
Of course not!
Current scientific lack of evidence does not preclude possibility or exitence.

 

[Merlin]

Unfortunately that would have had the effect of killing everything in the sea and boiling noah's little ark.

That's certainly an interesting assumption, given you don't know the mechanism of its happening.