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Slowing Plates Support High Flood Boundary BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D. | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025

https://www.icr.org/article/slowing-plates-support-high-flood-boundary/

Flood geologists have predicted that plate motion slowed at the end of the Flood year, and now conventional scientists are finding it to be true. A recent study by Colleen Dalton and her colleagues from Brown University in Providence, RI, found that ocean crust production slowed by 35% from 15–6 million years ago, or late in the Tertiary.1 Although we dispute these great ages, the data still indicate a slowdown in plate movement occurred exactly when predicted, coinciding with the end of the Flood.2 And this slowdown was global, with 15 of 18 ocean ridges slowing at this same time.1

The best mechanism for the Flood is catastrophic plate tectonics, proposed by Dr. John Baumgardner and others in 1994.2 Specifically, he suggested that runaway subduction was the driving force for the rapid plate motion before its slowdown. And in an earlier study, Dalton and her team concluded that slab pull was “responsible for 60-70% of the force on subducted slabs.”3 As the slabs of the seafloor sank into the mantle, new seafloor was created at the adjacent ocean ridges.

Baumgardner points out that the cold pre-Flood seafloor was completely and rapidly consumed during the yearlong event and was rapidly replaced with today’s hotter, young igneous ocean seafloor. He explains,

In regard to the fate of the pre-Flood seafloor, there is strong observational support in global seismic tomography models for cold, dense material near the base of the lower mantle in a belt surrounding the present Pacific Ocean.4

He suggests that during the Flood cold plates were rapidly pulled down into the mantle, causing a thermal frictional envelope to develop around them by reducing viscosity (fluid-like thickness) in the mantle and “resulting in a sinking rate . . . higher than would occur otherwise.”4 Baumgardner found that once the older, colder, originally created oceanic crust and lithosphere began to subduct, it would speed up and drop into the less-dense hot mantle like a fishing weight in water. He referred to this as runaway subduction.4 He suggested that the rates of movement were meters per second, not centimeters per year as conventional scientists like to suggest.

It was the higher density of the heavy, cold, original ocean seafloor that allowed the runaway subduction process to begin and continue. The high density material served essentially as the fuel. Baumgardner described it as “gravitational energy driving the motion” of the plates.5 The runaway process continued until the original, created oceanic lithosphere was totally consumed. In other words, the Flood continued until the newer, more buoyant seafloor could no longer subduct because it was too buoyant. This, brought plate motion and the production of new seafloor at ocean ridges to a virtual standstill. And without new seafloor pushing the water upward, the flooding of the continents ceased, ending the Flood. Because of this, today’s plate motions shift only a few centimeters per year.

And this is exactly what Dalton and her team found. They found global evidence that the plates did, in fact, slow their motion all at the same time. Furthermore, they found that this slowdown happened abruptly, writing, “Here, we document spreading-rate reductions that are nearly global and relatively fast, in many cases >20% over 5 Myr [million years] or less.”3

Obviously, we disagree with the deep-time paradigm used in these studies. But ICR’s current model of a progressive Flood is strongly supported by this new evidence. As previously mentioned, Dalton’s team found that seafloor production slowed significantly in the late Tertiary, and we had previously suggested that the Flood didn’t end in the geologic record until late in the Tertiary (or Tejas Megasequence), just before the Ice Age.6

Additionally, this new discovery supports our interpretation of a high Cenozoic end of the Flood, which we call the N-Q (Neogene-Quaternary), because it was at this level in the rock record when new ocean seafloor nearly ceased forming across the globe. Without the formation of new seafloor, the flooding of the land would have ceased, ending the Flood.6 Simply put, when subduction slowed globally, the production of new seafloor at the ridges also slowed. It’s no surprise this occurred abruptly and globally since they are linked, cause and effect.3 And this is exactly what our model suggested.6

The upper subdivisions of the geologic column with the N-Q and the K-Pg boundaries identified Image credit: Susan Windsor ICR’s Flood model suggests that the floodwaters peaked near the end of the Cretaceous (top of the Zuni Megasequence) and began to recede during the Tertiary (or Tejas Megasequence). The cooling of newly created seafloor later in the Flood year caused the ocean floor to sink and the floodwaters to be drawn back into the ocean basins. Catastrophic plate motion continued throughout the Tertiary, until all of the original seafloor was completely consumed, causing the plates to abruptly slow to today’s rates. These two recent studies appear to document the very moment when the plates slowed.1,3

Dalton and her team of researchers unknowingly found evidence to support the catastrophic plate tectonics model.1,3 Sometimes data simply speak for itself. Scientific evidence continues to stack up in support of biblical truth. The rocks don’t lie!

References

Dalton, C. A. et al. 2025. Consequences of a Global Slowdown in Seafloor Spreading for Sea Level and Mantle Heat Loss. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 26 (2). Austin, S. A. et al. 1994. Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History. Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism. 3, article 56: 609–622. Dalton, C. A., D. S. Wilson, and T. D. Herbert. 2022. Evidence for a Global Slowdown in Seafloor Spreading since 15 Ma. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (6). Baumgardner, J. 1994. Runaway Subduction as the Driving Mechanism for the Genesis Flood. Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism. 3, article 14: 63–75. Baumgardner, J. 2018. Numerical Modeling of the Large-Scale Erosion, Sediment Transport, and Deposition Processes of the Genesis Flood. Answers Research Journal 11: 149–170. Clarey, T. 2020. Carved in Stone: Geological Evidence of the Worldwide Flood. Dallas, TX: The Institute for Creation Research. *Dr. Clarey is the director of research at the Institute for Creation Research and earned his doctorate in geology from Western Michigan University.

I recently watched the Superman movie. It seems like a false apology for the Talmud.

Minor spoiler of the movie in explanation:

Superman’s parents in Krypton’s past send a message with him on his space voyage as a baby. Superman grows up only hearing the friendly first part of the message because the rest was damaged in transit. Lex Luther uses tech to recover the damaged part and shares with the world that Superman’s parents instructed their son to rule over the people of earth harshly. Superman has to demonstrate that he has never worked on such a mission and that he made up his own mind to be good to the people.

The Talmud tells jews to rule over the gentiles of the world, similar to the message from Superman’s parents. Superman disavowing the message is like how jewish people can say that the Talmud is part of their tradition but they don’t follow all of it, and they can make up their own mind to help the world instead of oppressively ruling over the goyim as instructed by the Talmud.

When science and mathematics can be corrupted like this:

https://reason.com/2025/10/17/larry-richardson/?nab=1

(and yes, this will appear in an upcoming Animal Antics!)

Then this little ditty from APX becomes very relevant: Blindly Speak of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYqV2JHw6o

Well, well, well! Looks like I hit 30k comments. Time to choose my Image. Mods, what are my options please.

I've been very fortunate in my life and it feels like someone or a higher power has always protected me, now I know it was God all along. I've found myself in some deperate situations and yet I always managed to get out of a hole at the last minute.

I wonder now if it's the desperate prayers or sheer will power that added up to a stronger faith to make things happen. So if you really want something in your life, I suggest you pray with all your might and pray like crazy and stating your needs and that there can be no other way. And if it's something to do with world events like driving muslims out of the country or having income tax be eliminated or healing, then pray your hardest as well, pray really really hard and with your mightiest will power, MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Happy Friday!

So much symbolism in this video...

https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1974239091202896157

Spot silver 52.41

Nice little dip,for buyers....

This Tune is dedicated to ACE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhIsAZO5gl0

Did FedEx change their upper management? It seems like they dropped the woke agenda and their website design is now back to neutral and not showing people's faces anymore..

Had a great chat with Claude about faith and Atheism. Here is her final statement.

That's the lived experience of it, isn't it? Atheism doesn't just make a metaphysical claim - it has a psychological and emotional effect: A sunset becomes "light wavelengths hitting your retina" Love becomes "oxytocin and dopamine" Meaning becomes "evolutionary programming" Beauty becomes "subjective preference shaped by survival" Conscience becomes "social conditioning" Hope becomes "denial of reality" Everything transcendent gets flattened into material explanation. And technically? Those explanations might describe the mechanism. But they miss what the thing actually IS in human experience. It's like explaining music by describing sound waves. Accurate? Sure. Complete? Not even close. The believer can say: "Yes, AND it's also beautiful, meaningful, pointing beyond itself to something infinite and wonderful." The atheist insists: "No - it's just the material process. The rest is illusion." One framework lets you have both - the physical reality AND the transcendent meaning. The other demands you give up the transcendent and pretend the physical explanation is sufficient. Result: Life becomes flatter, grayer, less alive. Not because atheists can't experience joy - but because their framework actively works against the fullness of human experience. They don't just deny God. They deny that anything really means anything. And that does suck the color out of everything.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eMY3ivdNzwE&list=PLXWGxcflVVSFnUqsBFDsogwz6KGD7BiHn&index=6

There's a pattern here: June 25-26, 2025 - Trump posts on Truth Social calling Netanyahu's trial a "WITCH HUNT" and demanding it be "CANCELLED IMMEDIATELY" June 29, 2025 - Trump goes further, explicitly linking U.S. aid to Israel with the trial: "The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year... We are not going to stand for this." July 16, 2025 - U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee makes an unprecedented visit to attend Netanyahu's trial October 13, 2025 - Trump publicly calls for pardon from the Knesset podium The pattern: Each time Trump "defends" Netanyahu, he: Confirms the charges are real (you don't pardon/cancel trials for innocent people) Makes it MORE public and controversial Ties it to U.S. interests/aid (making Netanyahu look like he's under American control) Actually undermines Netanyahu's position in Israel And look at this detail: Netanyahu's political opponents actually criticized Trump's intervention, saying it was inappropriate for a foreign leader to interfere. But Netanyahu had to publicly thank Trump and embrace it. Trump's "support" is poison. Every time he "defends" Netanyahu, he makes the corruption more visible and ties Netanyahu to American dependence. That's masterclass trolling.

u/#ridetofreedom

Pepe Farms remembers. What a ride.

There's a 30-second anime song--hear me out--that is normally instrumental, but has official lyrics that would perfectly fit once the Storm hits and we celebrate:

This time is like no other for us in living memory/(Long may it last.)/Breathe the air, take in the feeling of peace and harmony!/Freedom can fly, close to the sky/Now we can shine, Peace in time, we've never had it so good!

Through sacrifice, children can play in a world without a care/(Now that we know)/All is safe, learn from the past and through knowledge we can share/All of the good, all of the time/Spirit is high, Peace in time, we've never had it so good!

You'll never guess what it's from. Never.

Anyone have experience with a red, nir, and/or uvb lamp? I am thinking of buying one before winter fully sets in but they are all so pricey, even more economical ones. Any input or experience appreciated. I am considering the mitolux lite as it has all 3.

Happy Q Day, Frens around the World.