The Institute for Creation Research

Geophysicist Samantha Hansen and colleagues may have just strengthened evidence for catastrophic plate tectonics (CPT), the leading theoretical model for explaining the Genesis Flood.¹ Almost 40 years ago, creation scientist and geophysicist Dr. John Baumgardner suggested that the entire pre-Flood ocean floor logically must have been rapidly subducted into the earth’s mantle during the Flood cataclysm:^2,3 Placing the beginning of the Flood at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary implies that dramatic tectonic change including the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea,...