Fountains of MAGMA (?) of the Great Deep. Huh?

* First Shocking Thing First: Before getting to the sad shocker of today's program, that creation groups are reinterpreting the "fountains of the great deep" to refer not to water but to volcanoes (?!), hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams report actually shocking science news about how far a hundred watts of energy will take your brain (and body), about our ability to see a single photon, and about crocodiles eating fruit! Real Science Radio today also airs audio from infamous anti-creationist Eugenie Scott to put the lie to the Junk DNA story, once again, now that some human retrovirus genes have been found to be, not junk but, essential to reproduction! But the big story today is that our beloved creation movement is headed down yet another tragic and obvious dead end, this one designed to save the failed creationist version of the secular Plate Tectonics theory, by claiming that the fountains of the great deep that flooded the globe were not water... but magma??? Oh boy! Here we go again...

* RSR Programming Notes: At rsr.org/crossover-depth aerospace and defense industry engineer Bryan Nickel discusses four scientific problems with Catastrophic Plate Tectonics's "MAGMA (?) of the Great Deep" flood interpretation. See here RSR's YouTube video on the topic and please feel free to comment. Also, toward the end of this video, a notice points viewers to this page to see a second short video, the one embedded just below this first one:

* AiG in March 2017: We're excited that Answers in Genesis mentioned the view that the water for the flood may have come from beneath the crust! To better understand this issue, we suggest that you keep reading, but if you must, feel free to skip below to the AiG update.

* "Crossover Depth" Falsifies CPT & AiG Animation: Below 220 miles, called the "crossover depth", melted rock greatly compresses and so would not rise but sink. So aside from the biblical error of claiming that the fountains of the great deep were not water but magma, a physics error is that CPT has the magma impossibly rising through 1,800 miles of mantle up to the crust. This and many other powerful scientific observations falsify catastrophic plate tectonics, AiG's animation, and also plate tectonics. (Just like the public hears very little about dinosaur soft tissue, because it exposes the falsity of old-earth paleontology, so too, the public hears little about the crossover depth, because it exposes the falsity of plate tectonics. See also rsr.org/flood and rsr.org/albright.) Consider further, the magma just beneath the mantle is approximately double the density of the mantle's solid rock that is sitting just inches above the liquid outer core.

The main reason for the sharp boundary between the liquid outer core and the solid mantle is the difference in density. And again, by the laws of physics that magma cannot rise through the nearly 1600 miles from the core up to the crossover depth, as claimed by Answers in Genesis, Plate Tectonics, and the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics theory. Geologists are not physicists; they've developed many stories that somewhat match their worldview and that somewhat match the data, but the harder part is getting those stories to fit in with the laws of physics, which they do not. 

Further, if magma melted a path from the core up to the crust, its path could possibly be detectable today with seismic tomography. That now solidified path should have a sharp density contrast with the rest of the mantle. (Long, thin, straight lines are easy to detect. (Recall seeing from an airplane or satellite photos roads in jungles or bridges over rivers.) It seems that none of the theory authors of Catastrophic Plate Tectonics have ever predicted that such a path might be detectable. Contrast that with the many predictions made by Dr. Walt Brown, author of the Hydroplate Theory. See rsr.org/predictions for those, and for the many confirmations of stunning HPT-informed predictions.

* On Thermodynamics and Rising Magma: Consider also, to melt a path upward through the entire mantle and crust, rising magma loses heat to its surroundings. The magma would solidify long before it reached the crust. In a private conversation with Dr. Brown, RSR learned that in the 1980s he did a brief study for a geology professor, Troy Pewe, who happened to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences (and a good friend of Walt's friend, one of the father's of plate tectonics and the one who coined the misnomer, "seafloor spreading", Bob Dietz). The question answered was, How large would a plume of magma have to be to melt its way to the surface of the earth (assuming it would rise). It turns out that such a plume would lose so much heat that it would have to be bigger than the Earth to melt its way all the way up to the surface! Though the results stunned him, Dr. Pewe did not dispute the calculations. And further, of course the speed of the rising magma would be an important variable, because the slower it rises the more heat is lost to surrounding rock. Question: If the speed at which magma would rise from the core is zero mph, how long would it take to reach the surface?

* Reading Dr. Walt Brown's 1,000+ Scientific References: As RSR host Bob Enyart read Dr. Brown's book through for the second time, he read every one of Walt's references. Among those, on this topic, you can find the following: 

Above the crossover depth of 220 miles, magma actually does rise, but it does so primarily through faults, not plumes. Magma rises along faults a million times faster because rising as a plume presents, "severe thermal and mechanical problems." Add to this observation another from our own rsr.org/atheism page, "the theory of plate tectonics begins with plates already in existence, and has no mechanism for the initial breaking of the crustal plates." While it may not be generally realized that the change in the volume of magma as it rises and sinks is the primary cause of shallow and deep earthquakes, geologists do agree that an earthquake is a sudden slippage along a preexisting fracture—a fault. Yet it takes much greater forces and energy to produce the preexisting fractures than to produce the slippage. So, what created the tens of thousands of fractures? Plate tectonics theory only tries to explain earthquakes that occur at plate boundaries, when plates rub against each other, but again, it never explains how those plate boundaries—fractures occurred. Further, most earthquakes occur inside or below plates and not at plate boundaries!

The hydroplate theory of the global flood provides an explicit mechanism for breaking of the major plates and for the crushed crustal rock found globally. The Sequence of the Flood includes the rupture phase, the flood phase, the continental drift phase (ended by the compression event) and the recovery phase (continuing today). Gigantic shifts of mass during the flood produced a myriad of fractures through earth’s crust and mantle. These shifts included the 1,400-mile widening by erosion of the 46,000-mile-long, 60-mile-deep rupture, the deposition of eroded sediments, the uplift of the Atlantic floor and the corresponding subsidence on the opposite side of the earth, the formation of earth’s core, and the compression event. (See rsr.org/flood!) Of course, the many flood basalts around the world could not be produced without the preexisting faults for the lava to travel through and spill out of. Abutting the RSR studio to the east, the comparatively small Colorado Plateau has thousands of faults which geologists have mapped without knowing how they were formed nor how the plates initially broke apart. A biblically-based understanding of the global flood provides satisfying answers to these and hundreds of other significant questions.

* Answers in Genesis: Here at Real Science Radio we're so thankful that Ken Ham's AiG published on the front cover of their newsletter:

"Many claim there was not enough water in the oceans and sky to cover the whole earth for a global Flood. The Bible, though, says the "fountains of the great deep burst forth," releasing water from below earth's crust."

In RSR's Global Flood video we claimed that only the Hydroplate Theory can answer the question: Where did the water come from? For in our programs rsr.org/where-did-the-water-come-from and rsr.org/where-did-the-water-go we identified what we interpreted as an admission from the AiG/ICR/CMI Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) camp that their global flood model has no way of adding to the Earth's surface significant quantities of additional water. We have further observed that wherever the water actually came from resolves the question of which flood model is valid. If the water came from above the atmosphere, then the Vapor Canopy Theory, rsr.org/vct, is  correct. If no appreciable amount of water was added to the earth for the global flood, and instead the oceans were redistributed covering the mountains, then Catastrophic Plate Tectonics, rsr.org/cpt, is correct. If on the other hand, the Bible text is correctly understood most literally, and the water for the Flood came from when the fountains of the great deep burst forth" from beneath the crust, then Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory is the correct flood model. Selah.

* Dust means Dust, not Monkeys; Fountains mean Fountains, not Volcanoes: AiG's Ken Ham makes a great point against liberal seminaries saying that "dust means dust, not "monkeys" rebuking them for importing theistic evolution into Scripture to claim that God made man from primates. LIkewise though, with others, AiG makes an unforced error by importing the secular-oriented plate tectonics theory into scripture and so says that the "fountains of the great deep" were not water but fountains of magma. Of course words like day, dust, and fountain could have non-literal meanings but context is king, and the "fountains of the great deep" produced the floodwaters that covered the Earth. Scientists and organizations committed to catastrophic plate tectonics gradually change their public stand on the fountains to reposition them as magma-spewing volcanos. Why? Because the CPT model does not permit the existence of a subterranean water chamber (as with the HPT) that could flood the Earth. But Jeremiah writes that "a fountain wells up with water", consistent with so much in Scripture including:

Deut 8:7 …brooks of water, of fountains and springs
Song 4:15 ...fountain, a well of flowing water streaming
Isa 41:18 …fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water
Jer. 9:1 ...a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears
Joel 3:18 ...Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house and will water

* Standing for Truth interviews Bob: and then Bryan Nickel joins in...

* RSR's Related Resources:
- Fountains of MAGMA (?) of the Great Deep. Huh? (this show)
- Deep Magma Can't Rise: The Crossover Depth!
- Hotspot Hypothesis (for Hawaii, etc.) Widely Discredited
- Plate Tectonics: Subduction Doesn't Happen 
- Plate Tectonics: Convection Doesn't Happen
- Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Miracles
- rsr.org/catastrophic-plate-tectonics
- rsr.org/hydroplate-theory
- rsr.org/bryan-nickel
- Bible verses uniquely supporting various flood models
- Physical features crying out for explanation.

* RSR's List of Arguments Creationists Should Not Use: Bad arguments...
- Historical "science" is not science. Historically, creationists backed into this position regarding the "Demarcation Problem" of what qualifies as science to do an end run around the claims of paleontology, geology, and cosmology. For our rebuttal of this claim, please see rsr.org/forensics for our article and program titled, Historical & Observational Science Equally Good.
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics began at the fall. This claim, popularized by the father of the modern creation movement, the beloved Henry Morris, is biblically and scientifically indefensible. See rsr.org/entropy.
- When did unknown mechanisms become scientific concepts? This is an overtly unjustified criticism of a theory. For example, gravity itself works by an unknown mechanism.
- When did unobservable processes become scientific concepts? This is an obviously unjustified objection to a theory. Consider for example Einstein's thought experiments and other examples at rsr.org/math.
- The plant kingdom is not a kingdom of life. This is false. Before the fall, there was no death of nephesh life, that is, of any creatures that possessed a soul. But there appears to be no valid moral or theological objection to a virtually infinite destruction of organisms that have no capacity for suffering, including microbes, plants, insects, fungi, etc.
- The CMB "echo" of the big bang is missing. Newer research has called into question previous observations that implied a missing CMB shadow, with the earlier data now seen as equivocal. (To understand this see rsr.org/errata and rsr.org/bbp#shadow.)
- With the exception of the arguments that by our judgment we SHOULD USE, listed just below, leading creation groups have otherwise fine lists of arguments to avoid (like that Darwin recanted, he didn't; that Laminin is a symbol of the cross, it isn't; that women have an extra rib, they don't), in articles here and here.
- And of course, from above: The fountains of the great deep were volcanic fountains of magma. (See just above.) Thankfully, ordinary creationists haven't begun using that argument, and with God's help, we all can keep it that way! Please pray that the truth prevails among creationists on this matter!

* Arguments Creationists SHOULD Use: Answers in Genesis has claimed, as late as 2014, that we should not use the Moon Dust argument, but there is plenty of hard scientific data indicating that it's a solid argument for a recent creation. Various creation ministries have also argued against the following arguments, all of which RSR believes are valid arguments:
- Minimal dust on the moon indicates a young moon (see rsr.org/moon#dust).
- Mammoths were rapidly frozen during the global flood (see rsr.org/mammoths)
- The Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures has a reliable chronology (see rsr.org/septuagint)    
- Human and dinosaur fossil footprints have been found together in Texas' Paluxy River Basin
- The division in the days of Peleg refers just as the Bible says, to the "earth" being divided (see rsr.org/peleg)

* Crossover Depth Homeschool Science Experiment: For children, from Ellen McHenry's Hydroplate Theory for Kids, check out this Crossover Depth demonstration.

* RSR's Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory Video: We've excerpted our best-selling flood video which is available in full on DVD, Blu-ray, or download. We hope you enjoy this:

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* This Program First Aired: on Oct. 14, 2016.

* Sequence of Events chart for Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory: From the pdf of In the Beginning, the 9th Edition...