Do religious people believe in tectonic plates that shaped the continents or do they simple say god did it?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techtonic_plates

Answer 1

tectonic plates is just another plausible fact. If the earth was 6,000 years old as some claim then we would not have that much ocean between the major continents like Africa and North America. Since there IS a large amount of water it only shows that the earth is indeed millions of years old.

BTW thanks for pointing out tectonic plates I'll use it next time someone say that the earth is 6,000 years old

Answer 2

It's not a stupid question, but the creationist answer is stupid. Of course the continents all fit together. God put them that way after seven literal days of creation. You know, that's where he created light THEN the sun, moon and stars. The continents all slipped apart a few thousand years later -- at the time of the Great Flood -- they moved REALLY fast because they were floating on all that extra water that sprang up from the Earth only to apparently slip out into space. Or maybe one of the 38 Million species of air breathing animals drank up all that water while they were on the Ark, you know the one that was about 135 meters long. Or maybe it all spilled off the Earth when it stopped spinning on its axis when Joshua made the sun stand still. What a bunch of horse ****.

Answer 3

I'm a Christian... and it seems to me that there has been significant movement of the earths plates that shaped the continents. In fact... that fits quite well with a literal interpretation of scripture. In one of the genealogies it's noted that during some guys life the earth was divided... maybe a dramatic shift occurred at some point?

Answer 4

Well, some "religous" people believe in a literal 6 days of creation in which case there is no need for continental shift and others believe in long thimes between the creative days or long times between the "first" creation and the "second" Re-creation
So it depends on which theological system the person believes in!
Hope that helps

Answer 5

God made the tectonic plates.

Answer 6

Yes. But these forces of nature are merely performing the will of THE LORD GOD for a divine purpose; and this falls under our Faith in GOD.

Answer 7

when the time of the towetr of babble
god devided the people it was by the breaking up of gondwanna land [by teqtonic plate shift]
but the evidence has been subverted into a sub-deduction zone]

Answer 8

Both. Why would it have to be one or the other? How God chooses to form and change the world doesn't change the fact that he is doing it.

Answer 9

both. it combines both science and religion. God wanted the plates to create the continents, so he made it happen.

Answer 10

Christians believe in tectonic plates, but we disagree with how some but not all scientists theorize about the how and when of their influence on this earth.

http://icr.org/research/index/researchp_as_platetectonicsl/

Excerpt:

ABSTRACT
In 1859 Antonio Snider proposed that rapid, horizontal divergence of crustal plates occurred during Noah's Flood. Modern plate tectonics theory is now conflated with assumptions of uniformity of rate and ideas of continental 'drift'. Catastrophic plate tectonics theories, such as Snider proposed more than a century ago, appear capable of explaining a wide variety of data - including Biblical and geologic data which the slow tectonics theories are incapable of explaining. We would like to propose a catastrophic plate tectonics theory as a framework for earth history.

Geophysically, we begin with a pre-Flood earth differentiated into core, mantle, and crust, with the crust horizontally differentiated into sialic craton and mafic ocean floor. The Flood was initiated as slabs of oceanic floor broke loose and subducted along thousands of kilometers of pre-Flood continental margins. Deformation of the mantle by these slabs raised the temperature and lowered the viscosity of the mantle in the vicinity of the slabs. A resulting thermal runaway of the slabs through the mantle led to meters-per-second mantle convection. Cool oceanic crust which descended to the core/mantle boundary induced rapid reversals of the earth's magnetic field. Large plumes originating near the core/mantle boundary expressed themselves at the surface as fissure eruptions and flood basalts. Flow induced in the mantle also produced rapid extension along linear belts throughout the sea floor and rapid horizontal displacement of continents. Upwelling magma jettisoned steam into the atmosphere causing intense global rain. Rapid emplacement of isostatically lighter mantle material raised the level of the ocean floor, displacing ocean water onto the continents. When virtually all the pre-Flood oceanic floor had been replaced with new, less-dense, less-subductable, oceanic crust, catastrophic plate motion stopped. Subsequent cooling increased the density of the new ocean floor, producing deeper ocean basins and a reservoir for post-Flood oceans.

Sedimentologically, we begin with a substantial reservoir of carbonate and clastic sediment in the pre-Flood ocean. During the Flood hot brines associated with new ocean floor added precipitites to that sediment reservoir, and warming ocean waters and degassing magmas added carbonates - especially high magnesium carbonates. Also during the Flood, rapid plate tectonics moved pre-Flood sediments toward the continents. As ocean plates subducted near a continental margin, its bending caused upwarping of sea floor, and its drag caused downwarping of continental crust, facilitating the placement of sediment onto the continental margin. Once there, earthquake- induced sea waves with ocean-to-land movement redistributed sediment toward continental interiors. Resulting sedimentary units tend to be thick, uniform, of unknown provenance, and extend over regional, inter-regional, and even continental areas.

After the Flood, the earth experienced a substantial period of isostatic readjustment, where local to regional catastrophes with intense earthquake and volcanic activity were common. Post-Flood sedimentation continued to be rapid but was dominantly basinal on the continents. Left-over heat in the new oceans produced a significantly warmer climate just after the Flood. In the following centuries, as the earth cooled, floral and faunal changes tracked the changing climate zonation. The warmer oceans caused continental transport of moisture that led to the advance of continental glaciers and ultimately to the formation of polar ice caps.

INTRODUCTION... Read more @ http://icr.org/research/index/researchp_as_platetectonicsl/