For you folks who still are scratching your heads a bit, here is a great synopsis of the young earth creationist position, enjoy.
LOL. No article has ever made me laugh so hard. There are so many holes and assumptions in this model that I couldn't help but laugh out loud for about 10 minutes straight after reading this mess of a hypothesis.
Those are highly decorated scientists there.
Yeah, and funny how they are the only 7 scientists in the world who agree with that theory. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I hope everybody reads the link in the opening post, it really paints quite a picture.
Yes, it's quite a fairy tale.
So tell me IAC, where in the article does it say what magical process initiated the magical subduction of the plates inducing the "runaway tectonics"?
Answer: It doesn't say what initiated it, because nothing did. I encourage everyone to read that part, it is quite funny.
According to that article, this is Part 1 of the story of Noah. Enjoy.
1. God creates 9 planets, including one he somehow managed to squeeze in between Mars and Jupiter.
2. This planet suddenly, out of nowhere, explodes. Fragments of the planet (asteroids) magically make their way to the earth and hit the surface of the earth.
3. These asteroids hitting the earth magically cause the midoceanic ridge to spew out millions of cubic miles of magma (why, who knows?).
4. Noah and his gigantic ark luckily are unscaved by any of the thousands of asteroids hitting the earth.
5. The asteroids hitting the earth cause massive worldwide tsunamis which devestate the planet, however Noah somehow evades them with his superior wave dodging ability. The huge tsunamis caused by the powerful subterranean earthquakes from the rapid plate tectonics and from the impact of the asteroids pose no threat to the ark because of its sheer ruggedness.
6. Apparently, it started raining due to “condensing water from spreading center geysers.” Of course, the rain was basically worthless since it provided only about .00000000000005% of the total deluge water. So God just added the rain for effect (LOL).
7. Seeing the rain, the huge asteroids, and the huge tsunamis all coming after him, Noah thinks fast and decides that it's about time to give his ark a test drive. He was excited, as he had been waiting for this moment his whole life.
8. God talks to the animals and tells them to go into the ark to Noah. So the T-Rex's, the raptors, the lions, the wholly mammoths, the tigers, the bears, etc. all joyfully trot into the ark to Noah. They don't eat him alive because they are spiritual animals, and obey God's orders not to do so. Noah proceeds to cage up all the animals. He then brings his family on board and they brace themselves for the approaching nightmare.
9. Noah looks outside and sees that the rain isn't doing shit. He doubts the flood until he looks to the horizon to see the ocean rising and coming straight for him and the ark. Massive earthquakes, about 3.9 on the richtor scale are occuring all around him due to the "runaway plate tectonics" and extremely rapid motion therefore of the plate tectonics occuring below the crust. Amazingly, the ark is unaffected by these 3.9 scale earthquakes. It is built of undestructible gopher wood after all!
10. The ocean finally reaches the ark. Noah watches as all of the humans and animals on the land immediately drown in the water and sink to the bottom to be buried by sediment later. No wait, actually Noah sees that the humans and modern mammals have invented choppers and are flying all around him. The choppers run on gasoline though, he figures, so they'll die later after all the sediment has hardened (Ohhhhhhh, so this is why no humans are found with dinos in the fossil record).
11. After somehow surviving the thousands of asteroids hitting the earth, the huge 300 foot high tidal waves, the 3.9 richtor scale earthquakes, and the initial surge of the ocean, the ark is afloat.
Key quotes from the article used to create this story:
“Rapid emplacement of isostatically lighter mantle material at the spreading centers would raise the ocean bottom, displacing ocean water onto the continents. Baumgardner [7] estimates a rise of sea level of more than one kilometer from this mechanism alone.”
“Wave (e.g. tsunami) refraction on the continental shelf would tend to transport sediments shoreward.”
“It is possible that some amount of tidal resonance may have been achieved.”
At the very beginning of plate motion, subducting slabs locally heated the mantle by deformation, lowering the viscosity of the mantle in the vicinity of the slabs. The lowered viscosity then allowed an increase in subduction rate, which in turn heated up the surrounding mantle even more.
“The rapid bending of elastic lithosphere and rapid inter-plate shear of plates at subduction zones as well as abrupt phase transitions as subducting plates are rapidly moved downward would be expected to produce frequent, high- intensity earthquakes at the subduction zones. There is also earthquake activity associated with explosive volcanism, isostatic adjustment, continental collision, etc.”
"A second source suggested by [118, 6, 7] is condensing water from spreading center geysers. This should provide adequate water to explain up to 150 days of open "windows of heaven".
"We believe that this led to a thermal runaway instability which allowed for meters-per-second subduction, as postulated and modeled by Baumgardner [6,7]."
"Another substantial source of water suggested by this model is displaced ocean water (6, 7]. Rapid emplacement of isostatically lighter mantle material at the spreading centers would raise the ocean bottom, displacing ocean water onto the continents. Baumgardner [7] estimates a rise of sea level of more than one kilometer from this mechanism alone."
