The plates pre-existed the present state of the continents. Over the last 250 million years, our continents have changed quite a bit. Occasionally, the size of the plates will change. (for example, the Philippines plate is rather small, but in the future it could absorb a lot of the Indo-Australian plate)
To make it simple: the plates & continental land mass change frequently.
@smartwarlord You clealy are quite stupid. Instead of actually rebutting what Kent says, you just mock him. You grew up on thesetheories, so when someone questionsthem, you think it' absurd, becase you are so used to Plate Tectonics. Who cares what school he went to!! He can still disprove evolution.
@smartwarlord .....How long has man been measuring this continental drift? 40 years? Maybe 50? Why do you think you can discern the last "4.5 Billion Years" based on measurements made over the last few decades?
Our knowledge of continental drift, in its entirety is indeed only 50 years old - but since there has been no surprise findings in those 50 years - we can say with as much certainty that exists in Science - that continental drift is a reality.
Also, the continents have not been around for the entire history of Earth - the 4.5b number is wrong.
@smartwarlord .....How about a traumatic global even 4500 years ago, that cracked the surface of the earth, such as a comet or meteor strike, that caused the water underground to gush out, flooding the world. In the aftermath, the continental sections drifted, shifted and settled some. This accounts for the cracks in Earth's surface, and also aligns very sensibly with the eyewitness testimony we have of the event. 4500 years is not that long ago. Ex: Leonidas & the Spartans only 2500 years ago
The size of asteroid (most definitely not a comet) needed for that kind of thing to happen would have eradicated all life on Earth, save for anything below 25 pounds. Just like the Permian extinction, or the more famous (although less dramatic) - Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction (the one that eliminated the Dinosaurs except Birds/Aves).
Additionally, the Pyramids were in the process of being built exactly 4500 years ago. I think they'd notice such an impact.
@smartwarlord ...Well, an ice ball or asteroid would only need to be big enough to crack the surface of the earth, much like a bullet hitting an apple or other watery fruit. The resulting shock would crack the surface of Earth and cause fountains of the deep to erupt, just like the Bible said. Also, the main pyramid at Giza has never been accurately dated, so you are ball-parking it at best. Just after the Flood, about 4500 years ago, some very smart and strong people were living in that area.
Nothing you just said is factual. The Bible never suggests the flood was global, and the Hebrew makes quite clear it was not. Moreover, your entire interpretation of the waters "erupting" from the "deep" - is not based on the Hebrew but on a mis-translation into English. It's not in the text. It's not in the Bible.
We have cities like Byblos that are 8500 years old. Jericho and Damascus are equally old. For Heaven's sakes we've got human feces older than 4500yrs
@smartwarlord ....So Genesis 7, which states that the animals who died in the Flood were all the animals on dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of life, somehow suggests that it was not a global flood? You are speaking just like the serpent in the garden by repeating the lie that God's Word doesn't really mean what it says. Yes there was a global flood of water, and if you give your life to Jesus, you will get to see the second global flood of fire.
@smartwarlord .....Actually, either way you choose, you will still get to see the global flood of fire. But if you continue to reject Jesus, you will be consumed in it, instead of witnessing it from the walls of the New Jerusalem. Why would you choose to die? Seriously, do you just prefer death? Jesus created this world, then He came to live among us, as one of us, and now He is preparing to return. It will be an awesome day of joy for many millions, but others will run in terror and face death.
@smartwarlord ....But that same Bible says that the people who choose death will regret it on that day. Why would you choose to die, without ever seeing what Heaven is actually like? You would probably really like it there. But the Creator will not force you to live for eternity. In actuality, the demons would hate it there, if they were forced to go back and live there, so the Creator in His mercy gives them what they ask for, which is death and not existing.
What you've just said is as fanciful as if I quoted the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as actual history.
The god of Christianity is evil. the Christian Heaven is also evil. Who would want to spend all of eternity praising a god that does not even give a reason for humans to praise him/her/it.
I mean really - I'd rather spend eternity with Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson or even Stalin, than one second in the Christian "paradise".
@XChineseNewYearX "You grew up on thesetheories, so when someone questionsthem, you think it' absurd..." "These theories" are based in evidence. They have explanatory and predictive power, unlike the "God did it" according to what tribal back-desert spiritualists thought without evidence. God did it has no predictive value whatever. It is baseless in its speculation.
Hovind has neither disproved evolution nor provided an evidence based counter-theory that stands up to scrutiny.
Seriously dude, your videos would be as popular as Thunderf00ts "Why do people laugh at creationists" and AronRa's "Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism" series. "Kent Hovind is Crazy" is a good series idea, but with all the text no-one wants to read on YouTube. Get a mic, they cost a couple of bucks at most, and talk over the video instead of text, I guarentee you'll get 10x the views at least.
Answer: take away the water and you get land. Pangea Theory destroyed.
llevijr 2 weeks ago
Is the Earth instead "growing"?
iluelementry 4 months ago
Volcanoes/ deep water vents create land mass from magma expanding the surface of Earth. Water slowly evaporating into land mass.
iluelementry 4 months ago
So does the plates move or does the continents move? Are the continents floating islands? The plates are not formed as the continents.
PirateXzibit 6 months ago
@PirateXzibit
The plates pre-existed the present state of the continents. Over the last 250 million years, our continents have changed quite a bit. Occasionally, the size of the plates will change. (for example, the Philippines plate is rather small, but in the future it could absorb a lot of the Indo-Australian plate)
To make it simple: the plates & continental land mass change frequently.
smartwarlord 6 months ago
@smartwarlord You clealy are quite stupid. Instead of actually rebutting what Kent says, you just mock him. You grew up on thesetheories, so when someone questionsthem, you think it' absurd, becase you are so used to Plate Tectonics. Who cares what school he went to!! He can still disprove evolution.
XChineseNewYearX 7 months ago
@XChineseNewYearX
I've not said anything in particular against Mr. Hovind, this series was created about 3 years ago and I had nothing to do with it.
I did not "grow up" on these theories, my mother is completely scientifically illiterate.
Plate Tectonics is scientific fact, so too is Evolution.
To deny this is blasphemy.
smartwarlord 7 months ago
@smartwarlord Haha how silly!
XChineseNewYearX 6 months ago
@smartwarlord .....How long has man been measuring this continental drift? 40 years? Maybe 50? Why do you think you can discern the last "4.5 Billion Years" based on measurements made over the last few decades?
Laylow4now 1 month ago
@Laylow4now
It was first put forth as a hypothesis in 1596.
Fully developed in 1912.
Theory of Plate Tectonics introduced in the 1960s
Our knowledge of continental drift, in its entirety is indeed only 50 years old - but since there has been no surprise findings in those 50 years - we can say with as much certainty that exists in Science - that continental drift is a reality.
Also, the continents have not been around for the entire history of Earth - the 4.5b number is wrong.
smartwarlord 1 month ago
@smartwarlord .....How about a traumatic global even 4500 years ago, that cracked the surface of the earth, such as a comet or meteor strike, that caused the water underground to gush out, flooding the world. In the aftermath, the continental sections drifted, shifted and settled some. This accounts for the cracks in Earth's surface, and also aligns very sensibly with the eyewitness testimony we have of the event. 4500 years is not that long ago. Ex: Leonidas & the Spartans only 2500 years ago
Laylow4now 1 month ago
@Laylow4now
The size of asteroid (most definitely not a comet) needed for that kind of thing to happen would have eradicated all life on Earth, save for anything below 25 pounds. Just like the Permian extinction, or the more famous (although less dramatic) - Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction (the one that eliminated the Dinosaurs except Birds/Aves).
Additionally, the Pyramids were in the process of being built exactly 4500 years ago. I think they'd notice such an impact.
smartwarlord 1 month ago
@smartwarlord ...Well, an ice ball or asteroid would only need to be big enough to crack the surface of the earth, much like a bullet hitting an apple or other watery fruit. The resulting shock would crack the surface of Earth and cause fountains of the deep to erupt, just like the Bible said. Also, the main pyramid at Giza has never been accurately dated, so you are ball-parking it at best. Just after the Flood, about 4500 years ago, some very smart and strong people were living in that area.
Laylow4now 1 month ago
@Laylow4now
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Nothing you just said is factual. The Bible never suggests the flood was global, and the Hebrew makes quite clear it was not. Moreover, your entire interpretation of the waters "erupting" from the "deep" - is not based on the Hebrew but on a mis-translation into English. It's not in the text. It's not in the Bible.
We have cities like Byblos that are 8500 years old. Jericho and Damascus are equally old. For Heaven's sakes we've got human feces older than 4500yrs
smartwarlord 1 month ago
@smartwarlord ....So Genesis 7, which states that the animals who died in the Flood were all the animals on dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of life, somehow suggests that it was not a global flood? You are speaking just like the serpent in the garden by repeating the lie that God's Word doesn't really mean what it says. Yes there was a global flood of water, and if you give your life to Jesus, you will get to see the second global flood of fire.
Laylow4now 1 month ago
@Laylow4now
Jesus did not exist.
smartwarlord 1 month ago
@smartwarlord .....Actually, either way you choose, you will still get to see the global flood of fire. But if you continue to reject Jesus, you will be consumed in it, instead of witnessing it from the walls of the New Jerusalem. Why would you choose to die? Seriously, do you just prefer death? Jesus created this world, then He came to live among us, as one of us, and now He is preparing to return. It will be an awesome day of joy for many millions, but others will run in terror and face death.
Laylow4now 1 month ago
@Laylow4now
If Christianity is true, then yes, I'd rather not exist. Or burn in "hell" for eternity - depending on the Christian you speak with.
Christianity is a barbaric ideology, firmly rooted in superstition and delusion.
smartwarlord 1 month ago
@smartwarlord ....But that same Bible says that the people who choose death will regret it on that day. Why would you choose to die, without ever seeing what Heaven is actually like? You would probably really like it there. But the Creator will not force you to live for eternity. In actuality, the demons would hate it there, if they were forced to go back and live there, so the Creator in His mercy gives them what they ask for, which is death and not existing.
Laylow4now 1 month ago
@Laylow4now
What you've just said is as fanciful as if I quoted the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as actual history.
The god of Christianity is evil. the Christian Heaven is also evil. Who would want to spend all of eternity praising a god that does not even give a reason for humans to praise him/her/it.
I mean really - I'd rather spend eternity with Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson or even Stalin, than one second in the Christian "paradise".
smartwarlord 1 month ago
@smartwarlord you calling Jesus evil, what did Jesus say to do such evils?
llevijr 2 weeks ago
@XChineseNewYearX "You grew up on thesetheories, so when someone questionsthem, you think it' absurd..." "These theories" are based in evidence. They have explanatory and predictive power, unlike the "God did it" according to what tribal back-desert spiritualists thought without evidence. God did it has no predictive value whatever. It is baseless in its speculation.
Hovind has neither disproved evolution nor provided an evidence based counter-theory that stands up to scrutiny.
drfoxcourt 3 months ago
Seriously dude, your videos would be as popular as Thunderf00ts "Why do people laugh at creationists" and AronRa's "Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism" series. "Kent Hovind is Crazy" is a good series idea, but with all the text no-one wants to read on YouTube. Get a mic, they cost a couple of bucks at most, and talk over the video instead of text, I guarentee you'll get 10x the views at least.
TornadoCreator 1 year ago 2