Catastrophic plate tectonics - Andrew Snelling

[RdJ]

 

 

He has more of these videos.

[teddyv]

Snelling is a ridiculous man for supporting this ridiculous hypothesis.

The energy output for this hypothesis would vapourize the entire crust.

[FJK]

6 minutes ago, teddyv said:

The energy output for this hypothesis would vapourize the entire crust.

How did you calculate that?

[teddyv]

@FJK

I have not, but others have. It's fairly simple physics to envision. The earth's crustal plates have a ridiculous amount of mass. You cannot simply accelerate them to a "walking speed" as Snelling says without imparting a massive amount of energy. I think his speed is too low anyway for what he's suggesting. Someone who did the calculations compared the energy output to 1000 1Mt bombs per square km of the earth (or something like that).

The heat problem is a well known issue for Catastrophic Plate Tectonics as well as it's step-brother Hydroplate. It is acknowledged by the YEC community that it is a problem and they have no means for addressing it at present. I'm sure they will continue to pursue it, as they certainly are welcome to, but it is a huge problem.

Answers Research Journal published an article fairly recently. The conclusion states:

"The main conclusion of this article is that the total amount of geological heat deposited in the formation of the ocean floors and of LIPs is overwhelming: it cannot be removed from the biosphere within a biblically-compatible timescale by known natural processes. Using CPT-style Flood models as our theoretical framework, no more than a tiny fraction of the total could have been released into the atmosphere and oceans during and after the Flood. Given that the highest bulk ocean temperature in the early Cenozoic did not exceed 13°C in contrast with the present-day value of ~2°C (Worraker 2018; the lower figure of 2°C may be taken as a representative pre-Flood minimum temperature), the total heat absorbed by the oceans, earth’s main environmental heat sink, would have been of order 6 × 1025 J at most, assuming a thermal capacity of 5.5 × 1024 J/K (as estimated above). This is only 0.04% of the total heat deposition: the remaining 99.96% must have been removed or absorbed elsewhere. It seems that this must have been accomplished by some special, hitherto unrecognized mechanism."

I'm fairly certain that Snelling in the posted clip did that piece before this was published, but this is not a new problem. I have not gotten completely through the video yet. I am curious if Snelling even acknowledges that the heat problem exists.

Edited October 25, 2023 by teddyv
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[teddyv]

I just got to his comments on the rapids in the Colorado River, and I have no idea what he's going on about. Has he never been by a river in the Spring? You can here boulders tumbling along the river bed. You can see massive loads of silt and sand. Water is an extremely powerful force of erosion.

[teddyv]

Unsurprisingly, he neglects to mention the heat problem. And this is why these guys are not serious people.

[FJK]

22 minutes ago, teddyv said:

it cannot be removed from the biosphere within a biblically-compatible timescale by known natural processes.

The key word in use here is "known".

Assuming we know everything involved is a fools mistake, history has demonstrated this many times.

[teddyv]

10 minutes ago, FJK said:

The key word in use here is "known".

Assuming we know everything involved is a fools mistake, history has demonstrated this many times.

That's why I said they will likely continue to work on it. But, if you look at the energies involved (there is table in that paper I linked that lists the various energy contributions and estimated magnitude), this is a huge issue to explain. They are far better off invoking the miraculous, but that would defeat their purpose to find a naturalistic mechanism. Which I find somewhat ironic.

[FJK]

2 minutes ago, teddyv said:

They are far better off invoking the miraculous, but that would defeat their purpose to find a naturalistic mechanism. Which I find somewhat ironic.

Well, something built the mountains and the depths of the oceans, and that was presumably a long time ago since no one seems to remember how it happened.

[teddyv]

19 minutes ago, FJK said:

Well, something built the mountains and the depths of the oceans, and that was presumably a long time ago since no one seems to remember how it happened.

Modern plate tectonics is a very powerful explanatory theory for the geomorphological character of the earth's crust. It underpins the field of geology.