Yoel Natan solves the mystery of the flood waters rising and receding

Currently, the main theory in creationism explaining the mechanism

behind the flood is runaway subduction of oceanic tectonic plates.

The new ocean floor formed this way would then have been higher

since warm crust is less dense, and that would force the water up to

cover the continents. The continents are theorized to have been flatter

with only low relief mountains, so even the mountains were covered,

as per Genesis.

That new crust at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is mountainously

high is a point in the above theory's favor, but there are many

serious drawbacks. To name a few, even if the ocean bottoms

were higher and offloaded water onto the continents, it probably

wouldn't be enough to swamp the mountains on the continents.

Also, to have most of the world's oceans with fresh hot floors would

boil all the oceans, killing all life across the planet. Moreover, the

pitch on Noah's Ark would melt, leading to it sinking. It's also

inconceivable how the ocean floor would cool quickly enough so the

flood would only last a year, that is, without invoking a miracle.

Furthermore, the idea that the tectonic plates could subduct that

quickly is hard to believe. Finally, the ocean floors have apparent

age, which is to say, they were created that way 6,000 years ago,

but the flood would not put a patina on fresh ocean floors, that is,

short of another miracle.

The solution that seems most probable, indeed, the only

plausible theory offered to date, is as follows: The crust

of the earth sits on the layer called the lithosphere, and the

lithosphere sits on the layer called the asthenosphere:

The farther down in the earth a layer is, the hotter

it is, and usually it is more plastic (Rheid) and even molten.

The asthenosphere all around the earth heated up

due to a massive natural nuclear fission event in that layer.

Natural nuclear fission reactors have been found near the

surface of the earth, and some scientists theorize the earth

and other planets have georeactors at their core which account

for much of the planet's internal heat and magnetic fields.

When the asthenosphere heated up to the temperature

we find it today, it became less dense, and pushed the

layers above it upward. Since the asthenosphere is fifty

to several hundred miles thick, by some estimates, a density

change could easily up the radius of the earth by a few

kilometers.

The esthenosphere pushed up on the lithosphere

everywhere, and the ocean floor was lifted mostly intact

along with the lithosphere, and water flowed over the

continents. The cold basaltic ocean floors are denser

than the warm mantle beneath, but because of their

shape and size (very very wide but only several miles

deep) they don't sink except at the very edges. Thus, they

float like a ship, or perhaps more accurately, they act like

the skin of a bottle containing liquid.

By contrast to the flat ocean floor, the continents are massive

in a vertical fashion, and extend tens of miles into the earth.
They are less dense than the mantle (unlike the ocean floor),

and are held up only by buoyancy. The upsurging lithosphere

would have been shunted aside by the continents, and the force

directed toward lifting the oceans.

Inertia caused the continents to stay put when the asthenosphere

expanded, and the lithosphere rose. However, after a year

the continents rose enough for at least Mt. Ararat

to be exposed above water, and each year after that

the continents rebounded more until at some point they

reached an equilibrium with the ocean floors.

Noah and the ark, of course, were safe from all the radiation

from the natural fission reactor since the lithosphere, crust and

water protected them, same as the earth largely does now for us,

assuming the earth does have an active georeactor deep inside.

We know the earth in the arctic region is still rebounding

from being depressed by glaciers during the Ice Age, and the

rebound is only a centimeter per year, or per century.

However, the continents rebounding during and after

the flood would not be as slow. Why? The reason the glacial

rebound is slow is the earth's crust is un-flexing. Similarly,

mountain roots only rebound slowly as the mountain is

eroded for the same reason. However, the forces acting

to buoy the continents upward were in the lithosphere and

asthenosphere which is much more pliable and ductile than

rock nearer the surface, especially so soon after the natural

fission reactor event in that layer. Since then some of the heat

has likely dissipated and that layer is plastic, but so stiff

and viscous that plate tectonics can't occur today, as they

obviously do.

During this time of upheaval and settling is when all

the higher mountains of the earth formed. There was

also much volcanic activity, and that led to swift currents

that created what could be called sedimentary flood geology.

Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Natural Planetary Nuclear Fission Reactors

http://knol.google.com/k/natural-planetary-nuclear-fission-reactors#

Radioactive potassium may be major heat source in Earth's core

By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 10 December 2003

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/10_heat.shtml

12 Apr 2011 Update: A commenter, Octavio, said I should account

for the Zebra-stripes on the Atlantic floor. He is correct because

the advocates for runaway subduction think that's a trump card

for their theory. Meanwhile, evolutionists think it shows slow ocean

floor spreading. It very well may indicate fast ocean floor spreading

as the runaway subduction enthusiasts claim, but I would contend

that on Day One of Creation Week, God spread out the floor rapidly.

So the stripes fall under the general creationist principle that many

things not readily explainable by flood geology are relegated to the

creation week (since the runaway subduction theory is untenable).

If Zebra-stripes suggest the fast formation of the ocean floor, that's

just how God created them on day one. If the stripes suggest the

slow formation of the ocean floor as evolutionists contend, then it is

just "apparent age" or a "patina" God built in.

There are many so-called geological clocks, a few suggesting old ages,

but most by far suggesting a young earth. Now whether God put those

there to test men, or God just thought it unimportant to make

the earth look young by every conceivable clock, is a matter of debate.

Evolutionists, however, insist that if God existed, he would have

foreseen their desire to believe they evolved from a monkey, and then

preemptively stopped them by making everything look young:

A Catastrophic Breakup: A Scientific Look at Catastrophic

Plate Tectonics, by Andrew Snelling, Ph.D, 20 Mar 2007

excerpt: ...many observations are incompatible with the idea of slow-and-gradual plate tectonics. Drilling into the magnetized rock of the mid-ocean ridges shows that a matching “zebra-striped” pattern of the surface rocks does not exist at depth, as Figure 2 implies.

20 Apr 2011 Update: Some cite similar fossils on South America and

Africa as being proof that those continents once were conjoined. However,

it is just as likely that being about the same latitude and having the same

climate, God created similar sets of creatures to inhabit both places though

these places were separated by a narrow ocean. In addition, some creatures

found their way across the ocean before the Flood, same as some creatures

found their way to the same climes at similar latitudes on different continents

in the post-Flood era, e.g., mammoths, wolves, bears, elk, and other ice-age and

modern animals.

5 May 2011 Update: It came to my attention that some creationists
support the idea of plate tectonics and Pangaea because Gen 01:09 says
God gathered all the waters into one place and dry ground appeared.
They argue that since the water is in "one place," the land must be in one
place, too. Then they argue that during the flood Pangaea broke apart due
to runaway tectonic plate subduction.

In fact, Ken Ham said Pangaea "probably" existed based on Gen 01:09 in his
radio spot. However, Gen 01:10 indicates that one ocean and Pangaea
are not meant since God called the gathered water the "seas." The Hebrew
for seas, Yamim, is the plural form, and it is not a dual form, since Yam is
the oft-used singular form. Seas isn't one place literally, but they are
"one place" in the collective sense. Moreover, Solomon talks about the

dust of the earth being "one place" using the same Hebrew words for

"one place" used in Gen 01:09, even though by his we know that the

continents were split up (Ecc 03:20):

Apr 26, 2011 The continents—did they split up? by Radio Spot by Ken Ham

I talked above about apparent age. In a similar vein, Pangaea probably
existed, but only the hypothetical past, and that is why the continents seem to
have fit at one time. Likewise, Adam probably had a bellybutton due to hypothetical
parents. And hypothetically, little lead existed in proximity to Uranium in the
hypothetical past. The jury is still out, I think, on whether light coming from stars

has a true history or a hypothetical history. Anyway, many things were created

with apparent age, apparently.

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By Charles Q. Choi

OurAmazingPlanet

updated 7/17/2011

excerpt: The researchers found the decay of radioactive isotopes uranium-238 and thorium-232 together contributed 20 trillion watts to the amount of heat Earth radiates into space, about six times as much power as the United States consumes. U.S. power consumption in 2005 averaged about 3.34 trillion watts.

As huge as this value is, it only represents about half of the total heat leaving the planet. The researchers suggest the remainder of the heat comes from the cooling of the Earth since its birth.

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