Plate Tectonics

CPT Q. 051: Is sufficient energy available in CPT to melt enough basalt to resurface the ocean basins?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 51 Q. #51 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 51. Is sufficient energy available in CPT to melt enough basalt to resurface the ocean basins? – I would like to bring up some energy considerations based on some crude calculations I made using your 1994 ICC paper “Computer …

CPT Q. 052: How is a narrow V-shaped rift maintained in CPT as two ocean plates rapidly move apart?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 52 Q. #52 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 52. I would like to better understand the processes you envision happening at the mid-ocean ridges and on the ocean floor at the start of the Flood especially regarding the water jets. In your 1994 paper 1, the six author paper, you …

CPT Q. 053: Could you elaborate more on the effects of the ‘flips’ of the earth during the Flood?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 53 Q. #53 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 53. Given that according to your model, there could have been six or more “flips” of the poles, could you expand on the effects that would have on the water that occupied the ocean basins at the time, and what effects the presumed …

CPT Q. 054: How does CPT mesh with the 40 days, the 150 days, and the final 221 days of Genesis 7-8?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 54 Q. #54 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 54. In your answer to question 46 you responded that you were viewing the processes that supposedly opened and closed and then reopened the Atlantic Ocean from what you call a global perspective, while you claim that I have been …

CPT Q. 055: What was the lag time from when the steam jets first began and rain reached the ground?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 55 Q. #55 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 55. In your response to question 46 you state: “However, the perspective I have been assuming in every paper I have written is the global one. From this global perspective there is but one episode of CPT, one that persists with …

CPT Q. 056: Where did the seafloor spreading occur that resulted in the closing of the Iapetus Ocean?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 56 Q. #56 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 56. In your response to question 46 you further state: “And for a rapid opening even of the Iapetus Ocean to take place, most of the earth’s mantle must be weakened by many orders of magnitude. This strongly suggests that there …

CPT Q. 057: How do the tectonics of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic fit within the Genesis 7-8 chronology?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 57 Q. #57 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 57. In your response to question 46 you state: This global perspective is what I have been assuming in all of my papers and presentations since 1986. Because the supersonic steam jets in this framework are causally linked with the very …

CPT Q. 058: Why should the Deep Sea Drilling Program data be taken seriously by creationists?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 58 Q. #58 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 58. Why should DSDP and ODP dates be accepted as reliable, especially given that only a handful of indisputable off-ridge dates were obtained, that there is testimonial evidence that drilling program officials ignored contrary …

CPT Q. 059: Is plate tectonics a data-driven necessity or a result of the need for a grand synthesis?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 59 Q. #59 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 59. You have said: “The wealth of new data…that precipitated the acceptance of plate tectonics during the 1960’s simultaneously also opened the door for the first time in more than 200 years to a technically credible defense of the …

CPT Q. 060: Are shotgun attacks on anything scientific a valid approach for defending Biblical truth?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 60 Q. #60 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 60. You have said: “In his second contribution to this forum, Michael Oard asserts I am profoundly misinterpreting several prominent features of the Earth. But in making this accusation, Oard is placing himself under serious obligation …