Sea-Floor 'Spreading', The Key to Plate Tectonics (and an 'old Earth'), Is False
by: M.A. Masters, Architect
Statement: The Mid-Ocean Ridges Were Created Via Axial Compression
The Mid-Ocean ridges (MOR's) are the shining stars of the Plate Tectonic theory. According to the theory, these formations are classified as sea-floor 'spreading centers' in which magma is essentially ejected into the ridges, while the sea floor slowly, mysteriously and symmetrically spreads laterally thus allowing more magma to be extruded into the center. Then this assumed process continues, over millions of years, but not more than 200 million years. Nope, that’s the end of the line for the ocean lithosphere, these guys are mere geological teenagers when it comes to the age of the continents, which are over 3 billion years old… at least as “science” proclaims....
On the other hand, these formations can be explained otherwise with true, observable, testable and repeatable science while also pointing to truth in Scripture and a young Earth.
The above illustration is an example of an axial load compression test for concrete (left), and a section of the Mid Ocean Ridge/Transform Faults between Africa and S. America (right). Note the fracture patterns match. These patterns are due to the axial (equal) loading of the concrete, and to the ocean crust while the continents rose simultaneously (Genesis 1:9) and thus transferring colossal compressional forces to the lithosphere resulting in the Mid-Ocean Ridge formations (which I believe are Creation Week features as the MOR's were the centers of the original "seas", the Great Flood later changed the architecture of the continents). This is in direct opposition to the plate tectonic theory which states that the ridges act as sea-floor 'spreading centers'.
Above: Section of the Indian Ocean rendering an intersection of the Mid Ocean Ridge formation. The sea-floor 'spreading' concept per the plate tectonic theory truly fails in this location (among elsewhere over the globe). The illustration indicating direction of axial load, the ridge, potential location of original landmass (now destroyed due to subsidence) provides a plausible scientific solution to the MOR formation, while "spreading" of the sea-floor, from a single point, is indeed preposterous. This is diametrically opposite of the plate tectonic theory in which mystical "Pangea" is the crux of the theory, as well as evolution.
If sea-floor 'spreading' is false, then the entire Plate Tectonic theory is indeed false (this also includes the alleged 'subduction' scenarios). If Plate Tectonics is false, then Pangea did not 'break up' 200 million years ago thus destroying the childish idea of continental drift. This is a traumatic blow to the entire theory of evolution which has professed the existence of Pangea as 'fact' in virtually every major geological publication across the globe. Earth 'science' has doubtlessly committed scientific misconduct by making such preposterous claims that the ocean crust is only ~200 "million" years old while the continents are allegedly "billions" of years old, due to plate tectonic "movement".
Above: Examples of buckling via axial loading in concrete pavement. In these cases, the slabs buckled under lateral pressure due to expansion of the concrete via heat. The result of the expanding slabs caused failure (uplift) which mimics the MOR formation on a smaller scale. Hence, the MOR formations indeed are buckled sections of the ocean floor due to massive compressional forces exerted by the simultaneous rising of the continents (i.e. Vertical Tectonics).
Above: The Mid-Ocean Ridge formation in the Atlantic can clearly be understood in light of axial loading due to Vertical Tectonic movement of the continental landmasses thus buckling the ocean lithosphere.
True science, material mechanics, proves the formations of the Mid-Ocean Ridges via compression as the lithosphere experienced extreme buckling on a global scale. The Bible supports this with the simultaneous rising of dry land and gathering of "seas" in Genesis 1:9. Thus the evolutionary claim of sea-floor 'spreading' over 'millions' of years is essentially crushed by true observable, testable and repeatable science and Scripture. Evolution is left with a huge dichotomy on their hands that they must scramble to fix, yet this is truly an irreparable hole as the evolutionary ship is sinking. Plate Tectonics has been dogmatically abused by mainstream 'science' to 'support' evolution.
The Sheer Non-Sense of Assumed 'Sea-Floor Spreading'
(I am going to digress just a little here, because the PT theory truly is claptrap...)
Essentially, according to the plate tectonic theory, the Mid-Ocean Ridges or MOR’s give “birth” to ocean crust. We will therefore appropriately change their names to MOM’s, since this is where ocean crust is birthed. Of course, after the ocean crusts’ 'short' life, it later must get 'subducted' and 'recycled' inside the earth ...
Above left: A view of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between N. America and Africa. Above right is a diagram of the assumed (and claimed as "fact"), spreading scenario. Scientists have duped themselves over their own diagrams instead of truly exploring how these formations were created by experimental testing, i.e. true science.
Let’s
run a quick scenario of the “life” of a section of the ocean crust:
Let’s
pick a spot in the MOM, oh say between N. America and Africa. Okay, after
millions of years of hard labor MOM finally gives birth to twins, they then
slowly ‘leave the nest’, one heads east and one goes west… Their ‘spreading’ rate is, lets pick the upper average
of 4” per year (the fastest ones, pedal to the metal, are burning
rubber at 160mm/yr or 6.2992”/yr)…are you clear? After 200 million years
they make a journey of 12,626 miles, or roughly halfway across the globe and
meet in central Australia;
“Hello
sis, I have not seen you in a few million years. What are you doing here?”
“I’m
looking for the subduction bin brotherly mate, is it anywhere near?”
“You’ll
have to head north of here, right around Sumatra. Now steer clear of those
continents and volcanoes my dear.”
“I
do need to hurry because my time is quickly running out, I need to speed up in
order to get to that subsuction spout.”
As
you can see in this ‘example’, even
the published rates of this “spreading” does
not work! After 200 million years,
the entire globe would have had to be “subducted” back into itself. But the
continents are billions of years old!
How can this be? And here’s another thing, how in the world do you think earth scientists came up with an accurate
“spreading rate” of crustal features that are buried thousands of feet under
h2o in the middle of the ocean. This alone is a grand mystery, but somehow
they have magically achieved it, and
published it… IN MILLIMETERS for crying out loud!
This
is a prime example of how earth scientists just plugged these features into
their plate tectonic model without real observations and truly thinking through
the details. They have therefore made the MOM’s “fit” into the theory with
their “sea floor spreading” contraption. So in a nutshell they are not
observing the formations for what they
truly are. Rather, they view them for what they want to see. And this is how “science” works: you muster up a
grand theory and “adjust” geological features to fit into it… Then you
teach it to the entire world…Forget if these ideas truly work, who needs
things to work.
Are
there any true observations of this
“sea floor spreading”? Noo
(but oh they will chastise you and make up something saying that it is
observed). Do we observe any volcanic edifices on land or under the sea for that
matter that “spread” the crust of the earth in this manner? Negatory. Volcanic edifices are generally round or oval in shape,
and when linear fissure eruptions do occur, then lava spreads out over
crust building up to thousands of feet thick such as the Snake River Basin and
Dekan Flats in India. These are a result of grand fissure eruptions of flood
basalts (which is what would happen if
magma were upwelled into the ridges). Actually this did
occur at the MOM’s at some point in the earth’s history, and when it did, we
got new land: MOM gave birth to baby
Iceland.
You can clearly see and conclude how Iceland was formed in this manner.
What can we logically conclude about this “sea floor spreading” at the MOM’s? Sound logic and observation will tell us it simply is not happening. This scenario is just plate tectonic sci-fi, but it’s about to bite the dust, because earth scientists have pegged a maximum age to the ocean crust. If sea floor spreading is not true, then the age of ocean lithosphere cannot be “new”. Earth scientists will have a huge problem to figure out, because the ocean crust is nothing but a teenager spreading about!
Above: Map of the "Age" of the Ocean Lithosphere (crust) published by NOAA. This is based on the assumed sea-floor 'spreading' scenario per the Plate Tectonic Theory, which is tied to the 'breakup of Pangea' evolutionary hypothesis ~200 'million' years ago. In a nutshell, this is tax dollar government supported evolution. The sea-floor 'spreading' scenario is indeed "fact" in Earth Science. Note there is no indication that this 'age' map is an 'estimate' or simply a theory, it is fact according to NOAA.
Below are more examples of how 'science' has used the Plate Tectonic theory to claim an 'old Earth' via the sea-floor 'spreading' and 'subduction' ideas. Once again, evolutionary science (which inevitably includes all mainstream 'science'), has abused the Plate Tectonic theory in making such "factual" claims. The credibility of virtually the entire scientific community is at stake riding on the claim of plate tectonic mechanisms, especially sea-floor 'spreading' as "fact". Thus 'science' has dogmatically used the Plate Tectonic theory to support evolution;
