Understanding Plate Tectonics

Question 1

Has anyone seen plate tectonics occurring?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

Why has no one seen plate tectonics occurring?

Answer 2

Because it is extremely difficult to measure such minor changes over such long distances

Question 3

Does there seem to be evidence for the plate tectonic theory

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What are the three evidences of plate tectonics?

Answer 4

Large crustal plates, mid Atlantic ridge, major mountain ranges and fault lines somewhat line up when the continents are pieced back together

Question 5

In the secular science view of the plate tectonic theory, the material in the mantle moves in what as the hotter magma rises from the core

Answer 5

Convection currents

Question 6

These convection currents do what to the continents?

Answer 6

They Slowly move the continents at a steady rate of a few centimeters per year

Question 7

Plate tectonics through continental drift show how long of a history of plate movement?

Answer 7

A long history history (millions of years)

Question 8

What are the 4 questions we must consider with this theory

Answer 8

Is the mantle really liquid enough to have large convection currents?
Are the convection currents strong enough to drive whole continents across the face of the earth?
How is it that the slow movement of the plates causes an entire plate, 3-37 miles thick of rock to move under another plate that is also 3-37 miles thick?
Is there a better theory???

Question 9

With the hydroplate theory, does is it have an assumption that natural laws and naturalistic thought are active?

Answer 9

No it has an assumption that God is active in creation and His word is true

Question 10

What does the hydroplate theory focus on and where is this described in the Bible

Answer 10

It focuses on the fountains of the deep which is described in genesis 7:11

Question 11

What is the first assumption of the hydroplate theory concerning thick layers of rock?

Answer 11

Subterranean pools of water were under thick layers of rock

Question 12

True/False there are no longer any pools of subterranean water under the rock in the earths crust today because it the water dried up

Answer 12

False there are still pools of subterranean water under thousands of feet of rock of the earth’s crust today

Question 13

These still existing subterranean pools of water are supposedly remnants of what and are what type of water?

Answer 13

They are supposedly remnants of the original subterranean waters and are salt water

Question 14

The second assumption of the hydroplate theory concerning the water is what?

Answer 14

The water deep inside the crust was under tremendous pressure

Question 15

The third assumption states what about how God caused the flood

Answer 15

Somehow God caused the beginning of the flood, the crust of the earth cracked and the subterranean waters were ejected out of the earth at a high velocity

Question 16

Would the movement of the continents have been rapid or slow?

Answer 16

Rapid

Question 17

As the fountains burst forth, what would happen to the rock near the fountains?

Answer 17

The rock would be rapidly eroded and ejected into the air

Question 18

What would have carved the sides of the continents into an angle making the continental shelves?

Answer 18

The highly pressurized column of water and The removal of the rocks

Question 19

Instead of ? Of ? Of continents moving slowly , the ? And ? Would have moved ? , ? Into each other causing ? Of ? And ?

Answer 19

Instead of millions of years of continents moving slowly, the continents and tectonic plates would have moved rapidly, colliding into each other causing zones of subduction and mountains 

Question 20

Name 2 examples of fold mountains

Answer 20

Cascades and Himalayas

Question 21

How have fold mountains been folded upward?

Answer 21

They have been folded upward by plates colliding with each other

Question 22

Mountain building would have been a rapid process while what?

Answer 22

While the layers of sediments were soft while being deposited by flood