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To: Buck W.

Laugh all you want, but I’ve yet to read any other credible explanation for the mid-oceanic trench that circumnavigates the globe.


83 posted on 11/18/2009 2:05:51 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
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Please draw no conclusions regarding the intelligence, creativity, or reasoning capability of Christians from the content of this post and others like it on this thread. We are not all this stupid.

85 posted on 11/18/2009 2:11:27 PM PST by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: BrandtMichaels
Given the thermal convection basis for plate movement, it's hard to see how there wouldn't be connecting seams between the plates. The continental plates are a relatively small portion of the surface of the globe, so it's no surprise that the oceanic crust has connecting rifts.
97 posted on 11/19/2009 12:21:33 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: BrandtMichaels
Laugh all you want, but I’ve yet to read any other credible explanation for the mid-oceanic trench that circumnavigates the globe.

There is no mid-oceanic trench that circumnavigates the globe, there are mid-oceanic RIDGES that do so. Ridges are in the middle of the oceans, trenches tend to be nearer the land. You either don't read ANYTHING about oceanic ridges outside of your echo chamber.....or you wholly discount entire fields of science in favor of ONE GUY's theory that doesn't stand up to even a cursory glance in the real world.

There is a valid scientific theory for the formation of the exact oceanic rifts/ridges you're talking about.....and even the trenches. It's called simple plate techtonics...something that is observable, measureable and needs no manufacturings of 10km thick super-heated and super-pressurized water to explain it.

Converging plates form trenches by subduction. Diverging plates form rifts that allow the escape of magma, which forms the ridges where the rift used to be.

99 posted on 11/19/2009 9:14:21 AM PST by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with 100+ species of large meat eating dinos within the last 4,351 years?)
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