| | :In response to Mr Schlafly's roughly half a mile per year continental drift, yes, that's correct. But that's an ''average'' of half mile per year. It would be ''much'' faster than half a mile a year in the past, since it is so slow now, according to you. Furthermore, unless you assume that the supercontinent began to break up the moment the earth was created, you have less than 6000 years- more like 4500, if you start, as in flood geology, with the Flood. Thus the early drift rates, in order to ''average'' half a mile per year, would have had to have been ''extremely'' faster than half a mile per year in the beginning. There is simply no evidence that the plates ever moved that fast, or that they even could. [[User:AddisonDM|AddisonDM]] 15:51, 26 June 2009 (EDT) | | :In response to Mr Schlafly's roughly half a mile per year continental drift, yes, that's correct. But that's an ''average'' of half mile per year. It would be ''much'' faster than half a mile a year in the past, since it is so slow now, according to you. Furthermore, unless you assume that the supercontinent began to break up the moment the earth was created, you have less than 6000 years- more like 4500, if you start, as in flood geology, with the Flood. Thus the early drift rates, in order to ''average'' half a mile per year, would have had to have been ''extremely'' faster than half a mile per year in the beginning. There is simply no evidence that the plates ever moved that fast, or that they even could. [[User:AddisonDM|AddisonDM]] 15:51, 26 June 2009 (EDT) |
| | + | ::A rate of ''one thousand miles a year'' is only one-tenth of a mile per hour. Compared to creation itself, that rate of speed would seem like a nothing. In fact, I'm not sure one would even notice such slow movement.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:23, 26 June 2009 (EDT) |