Plate Tectonics

CPT Q. 030: Are the tectonic mechanisms affecting the world’s geology primarily vertical or horizontal?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 30 Q. #30 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 30. It has been asserted that the “fundamental tectonic mechanisms of global geology are vertical” and that horizontal tectonic mechanisms play only a minor role. Would you please provide your view regarding that assertion? …

CPT Q. 032: Is God’s supernatural intervention needed to cool the Flood’s newly forming ocean floor?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 32 Q. #32 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 32. Your 1986 paper for the first ICC you wrote that the requirement for cooling the newly forming ocean floor in the short time span during and after the Flood seemed to require God’s supernatural intervention to remove the heat. …

CPT Q. 033: Do the steam jets in CPT have sufficient energy to reach earth’s escape velocity?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 33 Q. #33 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 33. In your 2003 ICC paper you wrote that steam from the fountains of the deep might have reached escape velocity. However, later you included a note saying that a further calculation had shown there would not be sufficient energy. …

CPT Q. 034: How do you interpret the magnetic ‘stripes’ on either side of the mid-ocean ridges?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 34 Q. #34 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 34. Could you clarify your view on the magnetic “stripes” on either side of the mid-ocean ridges and describe how catastrophic plate tectonics differs from uniformitarian plate tectonics in its interpretation of this …

CPT Q. 035: How does the usual need for ‘auxiliary hypotheses’ impact your own modeling endeavors?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 35 Q. #35 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 35. How does the usual need for ‘auxiliary hypotheses’ impact your own modeling endeavors? Fuller question: In their paper: “Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences,”1 Oreskes et al. present …

CPT Q. 036: Was all the land together in one place at the end of creation week?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 36 Q. #36 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 36. Was all the land in one place at the end of creation week? If so, then how and when did it come to be in its current configuration? What role do Rodinia, Pannotia and Pangea play in this history? Response: As to whether or not all …

CPT Q. 037: Was runaway subduction restricted to the first forty days of the Flood?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 37 Q. #37 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 37. CPT offers an interesting explanation for the 40 days of rain at the beginning of the Flood. It proposes that runaway subduction created supersonic steam jets at the MORs which carried significant amounts of water into and above …

CPT Q. 038: If Africa was largely stationary, does this mean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge moved westward?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 38 Q. #38 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 38. The African Plate is generally assumed to be relatively stable with regard to its east-west movement. Does this mean that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge itself is moving westward at half the speed of the Atlantic seafloor west of the …

CPT Q. 039: Does CPT rely on any ‘scientifically untestable supernatural causes’?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 39 Q. #39 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 39. Wikipedia has the following definition for “Creation Science”: Creation Science or scientific creationism is a branch of creationism which attempts to provide scientific support for the Genesis creation myth, and …

CPT Q. 040: How can plesiosaur fossils be in the Franciscan Formation if the rock was deeply subducted?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 40 Q. #40 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 40. You have repeatedly referred to the Franciscan formation as good evidence of rapid subduction and exhumation. The UHP rocks within that formation are a classic example that would appear to support what you are saying. However, …