Question for Young Earth Creationists?

1. Your understanding of the terminology of the continents (Pangea and Gondwana) is exactly correct.

It is always hilarious to hear Creationists mocking scientists for "changing the names again" ... these names have been used by scientists since the 1800s!

http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_781534815/g...

I.e. it is hilarious to hear someone mock the "new" names when it is their own ignorance that is the reason they never heard of them!

2. You wrote: "There are rocks on this planet that are as much as 2 billion years old. "

Actually *much* older than that. The oldest *earthbound* rocks ever found are zircon crystals dated to 4.4 billion years old.

http://nai.nasa.gov/news_stories/news_detail.cfm?I...

(Meteorites have been dated to a little bit older ... 4.6 billion years old.)

3. (And more related to your question.) People responding with Peleg and Joktan (sons of Eber) are showing the awkward position of Creationists. Peleg and Joktan are the great-great-great-grandsons of Shem, Noah's son. So the event that caused the "earth" to be "divided" happened well after the Flood.

In short, Creationists are faced with the awkward position of having to either deny the evidence of a single continent altogether ... or to try to fit the scientific evidence with Biblical passages ... which requires careful cherry-picking of both the scientific evidence (e.g. accepting the evidence that the split of the continents happened, but without the evidence that this occurred half-a-billion years ago), and the Biblical passages (having to choose between Noah's flood story and the story of Peleg and Joktan as the relevant Biblical passage).

In short ... the problem with cherry-picking, is that it leads to a different story every time ... clearly Creationism isn't quite sure what its explanation is.

I believe: The earth was created in 6 ( 24 hour) days about 6000 years ago. The condition of the all the continents or continent before Noah's worldwide flood( about 4000 years ago) was tropical as geologic evidence shows, ( tropical vegetation on Antartica & elsewhere). This suggests a world with parallel axis in relation to our orbit around the Sun The flood was a God ordained major catastrophic event that tilted the earth on it's axis causing the seasons and unequal weather patterns as we now have. The tropical vegetation and animal life destroyed in the flood were transformed by the mass amount of presuure (from water) and accompanying heat into oil,& coal., Ignious and sedimentary layers were transformed into metamorphic rock . The idea of a "Pangea" continent is really not important to me . The catastophic nature of the flood as evidenced by massive upheavals and shifting of layers of the sedimentary (layed down by the flood) and metamorphic rock suggets that the Pangea or Gondwana may have existed and the supposed division thereof was a relatively quick event which is certainly possible in the realization of an omnipotent God. The Bible also says that after the flood and the tower of Babel the earth was divided. (Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.) So yes it is possible, but there are flaws in the theory. . The Pangea model shrinks Africa and omits all of Mexico and central America to make things fit nicely together. All things are possible with God. All there things will be known for certain when Jesus returns to earth and sets up his kingdom for a thousand years. Are you ready? He is coming soon.

south america and africa fit together not just physically but also geologically and with the fossil record and radiometric dating. the plates move due to convection currents of magma in the upper mantle. the mega continent was called pangea and the collected seismic data from the many earthquakes that have occurred recently point to this conclusion .

pangea started to break apart around 250 to 300 million years ago

That the continents were all one land mass is a scientific AND a Biblical view.

After the Flood of Noah, the force of hydraulics (fluid) upon the Earth's crust would have caused the division of the land mass.

The Flood of Noah is recorded in Genesis 6

In Genesis 10, after the flood, we find in verse 25...

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Did you know the continents are still connected? And there is dirt under the ocean.

The water levels and mountain ranges were simply changed after the flood.

Someone already mentioned Peleg: and the waters being divided.

EDIT:Mick: actually Africa is shrank 30% to make the puzzle pieces fit.

Idk. It sounds like Pangea to me except that God did it 4000 years ago. I'm forwarding this question to someone I know is a creationist - and I believe he is a young earth creationist. :D

I have heard that the earth was one continent and broke up after the flood of Noah receeded. That's the extent that I have heard.

I believe that there was originally one landmass that broke up as a result of the flood.

What was wrong with Pangea exactally? This is one of those super-evolution things I am guessing.

god made the continents to slowly move just to trick us to believe in pangea.

he also put the same flora and and fauna on the coasts of continents that fit together like puzzle pieces just to fool us.

Wow...didn't realize that they changed the names again...who keeps coming up with these ridiculous names???

Let me guess...you were there weren't you...you have first hand knowledge of there being a single supercontinent 600 million years ago...