Do Young Earth Creationists deny plate tectonics?

Question

i assume they must, or else the continents would need to be drifting at a rate of 2,000 feet per year to be where they are now after 6,000 years.

Answer 1

They deny pretty much anything that isn't in their ~3500 year old Jewish mythology. Such sad, sheltered people.

Answer 2

No, we believe in plate tectonics, just not the way it is modeled currently.

QUOTE: Evidence indicates that the continents have moved apart in the past, but can today’s supposed drift rates of 0.78-5.9 inches [ 1.98 to 14.99 centimeters] per year be extrapolated far back into the past? Is the present really the key to the past, as uniformitarians earnestly proclaim? Such extrapolation would mean that an ocean basin or mountain range would take about 100 million years to form.

The Bible does not speak directly about continental drift and plate tectonics, but if the continents were once together, as Genesis 1:9-10 suggests, and are now apart, how does that fit into a biblical view of geology with a time line of only thousands of years?

Dr John Baumgardner, working at the Los Alamos National Laboratories (New Mexico, USA), has used supercomputers to model processes in the earth’s mantle to show that tectonic plate movement could have occurred very rapidly, and ‘spontaneously.’ This concept is known as catastrophic plate tectonics. At the time of writing, Baumgardner, a creation scientist, is acknowledged as having developed the world’s best 3-D super-computer model of plate tectonics.
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Answer 3

They credit catastrophies such as the Noah flood, and the scripture that speaks of the continents being divided during the lifetime of Perez as causing it. While they plates may be moving slowly at this time, nothing says there were not times when they moved quickly in major events and earthquakes.

Often the tectonic plates is used by Creationist as one of the proofs of their theory. It is all in the interpretation.

Answer 4

First of all plate tectonics, like evolution is no more than a theory. However lets say that what you say is true for a moment. In your finite haughty mind you underestimate GOD. GOD created natural laws but he does not necessarily have to abide by them if he chooses not to. GOD can move the earths plates where ever he wants at a speed that he wants and in such a way that no one would even notice.
~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO ALL TRUTH~

Answer 5

Apparently so. Because I haven't noticed any crazy change in the position of the continents in my 20 years of life. They must deny it up and down... even though it can be proven that the continents are in fact shifting.

Answer 6

Well since we are talking science here let me say that nothing in BIOLOGY makes any sense except in the light of evolution so i would hazard a guess and say that the biblical explanation is way off the truth in earth creation as well!

Answer 7

these are a people who think the sun moves an inch away from the earth every year and that proves the bible when it said the earth is in the center of the universe

argueing science with them is like trying to prove to my 3 year old that dropping the atom bomb wasn't a great idea

Answer 8

Maybe they moved a million feet per second in the beginning, and then settled down?

How did I know this would be their answer?

Answer 9

You seek knowledge of man and they Seek Knowledge Of God. Will your knowledge save you at the end of your days? Turn to the truth and leaving the foolishness of man to himself

Answer 10

And the Grand Canyon is god's bath tub