Students Surprised to Find Noah's Ark Feasible

Institute for Creation Research ^ | 4-11-14 | Brian Thomas

[JimSEA]

Certainly catastrophism has its place when you look at geology. The Chicxulub astroid, Yellowstone’s major eruptions, the formation of the Deccan Traps, the Siberian Traps, etc. All had major impacts on the history of the Earth. However, their impact on geologic history are decidedly minor in comparison with the movement of the various tectonic plates. Some 75% of the active volcanos are on the various Pacific plate boundaries. In fact one of the super volcanos often listed in various catastrophism discussions, Toba is a product of plate movement and subduction including the accompanying water. There are a number of instances where a hot spot exists on a plate boundary.

However, the vast majority of geological change is of the inch or two a year variety. That creates massive stress which, in turn, result in many types of faults, folds, etc. The 1964 Alaska Earthquake, the most massive we’ve seen by many measures, was related to a thrust fault which moved up to 38 feet in some areas. It was a plate boundary earthquake like the recent, massive Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the Boxing Day Tsunami, Chili earthquakes and even the San Francisco earthquake.

I come to my observations from my background in mining and personal interest over most of my seventy years. While I spent most of my time drilling holes in rock rather than studying it, I did learn the geologic history of four different ore bodies. A lot of the understanding of ore bodies has been consistent over 100 to 130 years. When modern plate tectonics came along much of this prior knowledge fit very well into the overall theories. It works.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 4/14/2014. Not pinging, just adding to the catalog.

[SunkenCiv]

All that's required is, all 70,000 animals be fed into a juicer and stored in one large container, then the cubic feet figures will work. That would also solve the problem of having to feed them for six months. Of course, all of them would be dead...

With modern power tools it took over 300 man-years of labor to build each of the Ark 'replicas'.

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