[Verginius Rufus]

You can’t drawn any conclusions from volcanic activity in 2005. That was a unique event, caused by President Bush.

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

It’s like I keep saying — we live in a divided world.

[OldNavyVet]

Now, accumulating evidence of rapid rifting―huge seams that open in perhaps days―contradicts the uniformitarian gradualism popularized by geologist Charles Lyell and naturalist Charles Darwin 150 years ago and still held by many modern geologists. In contrast, the observations fit the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics model, and that model fits in a biblically-consistent history for the earth.

Just where is this story consistent with the seven day Biblical story?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Bush’s fault.

[Buck W.]

Thrilled by the prospect of absorbing more unparallelled scholarship from Brian Thomas MS* (it’s been a day since his last exposition of brilliance, and I was experiencing withdrawal), I quickly clicked on the ICR link and prepared to spend the rest of my day basking in the glory of the man’s genius. However, my daily fix of BTMS* was satisfied in but a minute, as the article consisted of only 482 words cleverly arranged among 7 paragraphs.

Despite the parsimony of verbiage (No! BECAUSE of it!), BTMS* still demonstrated conclusively that “...the observations fit the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics model, and that model fits in a biblically-consistent history for the earth.”

The man is amazing. In fewer words than a lesser scientist would write in but the abstract to a much longer article containing unnecessary data, he has once again demonstrated that the earth is a very young place. Our faith in young earth creation can only be further supported.

Did I mention that he even provided 3 references? Not peer-reviewed? Not hardly!

Please allow me to quote the obligatory last line from the article:

“See? Just like it says in Genesis! The End!”

[ElectricStrawberry]

Bwwwaaaaaahahahahaha Lyin' Brian Thomas MS* strikes again...

How about the lying title?

Rapid Rifting in Ethiopia Challenges Evolutionary Model

What exactly does the theory of evolution say about the rifting process? Nothing? Don't let that get int he way, Brian.

Their observations in Ethiopia’s Afar Desert directly challenge the outdated uniformitarian interpretation of earth processes, which holds that slow and gradual processes formed earth’s features.

False conclusion, Brian. Lumping all of Earth's geological features in one basket is sooooo scientific of you. Kinda like seeing flood waters quickly erode a valley in crumbly soil and saying "See, that's how the Grand Canyon coudl be quickly formed.

The rapidity with which crustal movements are now known to occur lend even more credibility to the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics model proposed by researcher John Baumgardner.

No, it doesn't.

It demonstrates numerically how earth’s ocean plates moved rapidly across the earth’s surface and were recycled into the earth's interior in mere months, rather than the millions of years assumed in the evolutionary model.

I am wholly unaware of an evolutionary model concerning plate techtonics. DO TELL...

accumulating evidence of rapid rifting―huge seams that open in perhaps days―contradicts the uniformitarian gradualism popularized by geologist Charles Lyell and naturalist Charles Darwin 150 years ago and still held by many modern geologists.

...because one specific thing may happen quickly does not mean that other entirely different things do as well. Two forces moving land in opposite directions can move faster with less force than two forces moving land towards each other. 2 cars parked tail to tail, driving away from each other do so easily and quickly. 2 cars parked nose-nose driving into each other well, you either get it or you don't.

[earglasses]

Of course there's a simple explanation for this: the expanding earth hypothesis (see http://www.expanding-earth.org/, for example). The only problem with that theory is that, if true, it means that the earth will explode relatively soon. As did the protoplanets that once orbited between Mars and Jupiter, and the even more ancient one beyond Neptune (see Dr. Tom VanFlandern's MetaResearch site for more compelling information on the Exploding Planet Hypothesis).

The only good news? “Relatively soon” in geological terms can be a very, very long time. Unless 2012 really does bring us to the end of time!

Booga booga.

[count-your-change]

I can only imagine the effects of the sudden weight of water had upon various parts of the earth though Ps. 104:8 briefly describes it. But here is a rift opening up daily it seems.

Talk about people drifting a part! This rift is opening up quicker then the Incredible Hulk's shirt seams.

However there is a bright side to this: This would be a good time to buy beach front property while it's cheap.

[Wacka]

More creat BS. The San Andreas Fault in the 1906 quake. moved about 10 feet.

None of this is new. More crap.

[metmom]

Scientists knew that rifts were formed in this manner, but the suddenness of this one’s formation astonished them...

Scientists seem to be easily astonished and astonished by an awful lot.

I guess that means that they don't know as much as they think they do.

[onedoug]

It demonstrates numerically how earth’s ocean plates moved rapidly across the earth’s surface and were recycled into the earth's interior in mere months, rather than the millions of years assumed in the evolutionary model.

Utter nonsense. This is the kind of stuff that makes Bible believers (like me) seem foolish.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

One episode of 20 feet in a couple of days isn't going to create any new continents, especially since nobody living in the middle east has seemed to notice any movement over the last couple hundred thousand years.

And this part is just funny,

Now, accumulating evidence of rapid rifting―huge seams that open in perhaps days―contradicts the uniformitarian gradualism popularized by geologist Charles Lyell and naturalist Charles Darwin 150 years ago and still held by many modern geologists.

I suppose the author has a copy of Darwin's, "On the Origin of Continents" as evidence.

Also geology is not a sub-discipline of biology.

[Natural Law]

....suggested in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that “tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed.”

The Rochester paper only addresses the linearity, not the parametric nature of the process. It states nothing of the x-bar, R, and lambda of the process.

1) First, Brian Thomas and the IRC is hardly a reliable, objective source of anything.

2) Define "suddenly" in geologic terms and opine on whether this is a continuous process or if there exists a significant time interval between "sudden" events.

3) Explain why we should all accept is evidence of or proof that all historic tectonic activity occurred in the last 6,000 to 10,000 years (+ 4 days).