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The following set of questions and answers is an outcome of a peer review process that began early in 2009 and continued through the summer of 2011. It is hoped that these questions and answers will help elucidate many points which have previously not been so clear for those who have had an interest in the mechanisms …
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101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics The following series is a web-adaptation of a PDF document (original), some 157 pages in length, which I found on the biography page of Dr. John Baumgardner, entitled: 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics. Many years back, I …
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CPT Q. #1 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 1. How do your efforts to model and understand the tectonics of the Flood square with the historic orthodox Christian view of the authority and sufficiency of Scripture? Response: I am earnestly persuaded from Scripture that not only is …
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CPT Q. #2 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 2. How can continental plates move laterally given the fact that most continental plates have lithospheric roots that extend to depths of 200-250 km into the asthenosphere? Response: First of all, lateral motion of continents is possible …
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CPT Q. #4 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 4. What evidence supports the idea that sediments, volcanoes, and plateaus have been scraped off subducting plates at trenches? Response: There are thousands of papers documenting the reality of accretionary wedges at subduction zones in …
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CPT Q. #7 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 7. How can a plate even begin its dive under an adjacent plate that is 30-60 miles thick if cliffs cannot be higher than 5 miles? Response: Because rock at sufficient depth under stress does indeed begin to deform inelastically or …
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CPT Q. #8 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 8. Is subduction geometrically possible only along a straight line? Response: According to GPS measurements, subduction is taking place today into the arc-shaped Aleutian Trench, the arc-shaped Sumatra Trench, and many other trenches that …
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