Yellowstone & Catastrophe (General)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 09:32 (3404 days ago) @ David Turell

Tony:If mountain ranges were violently thrusting upwars, water would have been flowing equally as violently downwards, taking all of the remains and sediments with them.
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> The process of tectonic plates causing an up thrust is a very slow process, never violent. For example the Tetons are still rising about six inches a year. I don't accept your explanation. Ancient sea bottoms set the fossils which were slowly moved upward. Look at Trilobites exposed in the Canadian Rockies. They are all over the place. I've stepped on them.-The problem is that what we know of plate tetonic movement is very much speculation and it very often continues to surprise us. Generally speaking, scientist assume that things occurring now are how they have always occurred, and try to use current measurements to extrapolate backwards. This is the case with plate tetonics. They measure current drift in cm/year, and try to extrapolate that backwards. Yet, we also see things like this:-"Normally changes to our geological environment take place almost imperceptibly. A life time is too short to see rivers changing course, mountains rising skywards or valleys opening up. In north-eastern Africa's Afar Triangle, though, recent months have seen hundreds of crevices splitting the desert floor and the ground has slumped by as much as 100 meters (328 feet). At the same time, scientists have observed magma rising from deep below as it begins to form what will eventually become a basalt ocean floor. Geologically speaking, it won't be long until the Red Sea floods the region. The ocean that will then be born will split Africa apart."-
Now here is my point. This change was completely unexpected based on the current theory of plate tetonics. What do we say when a theory does not accurately predict the observations? We say that theory is wrong. Perhaps not completely wrong, but wrong in some respect. In this case it is wrong in respect to the rate at which plate shifts happen. Period. That doesn't mean that we take the new data and use it as the new maximum, it means we go back and take a hard look at why we ever thought that was the speed limit to begin with.-
If this much change could happen in months, not even years, but months, when the Earth is NOT under extreme pressure stress, what would happen if the Earth WERE under extreme pressure stress?-
(Interesting theory)
http://www.onenewsnow.com/features/2014/09/15/does-this-flood-theory-blow-bill-nye%E2%80%99s-attack-on-creation-out-of-the-water#.VJkyOF4AMA-https://answersingenesis.org/geology/plate-tectonics/can-catastrophic-plate-tectonics-explain-flood-geology/

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