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I like how the video shows Hawaii splitting from North America and magically meandering into the Pacific Ocean, rather than being formed from volcanic activity....Anyways, the relative young age of the oceanic lithosphere compared to continental lithosphere is neatly explained by the Theory of Plate Tectonics. The speaker only mentions this fact that oceanic lithosphere is created at mid-oceanic ridges and at the same time "pulled" into the asthenosphere at subduction zones in jest, stating something along the lines that the asthenosphere is twice the density of solid granite or something, and so there's no way the oceanic lithosphere could be sinking into it...Of course, he forgets to mention that as oceanic lithosphere ages, it becomes denser than the underlying asthenosphere (but...but...the asthenosphere is twice as dense as solid granite!! That's really dense!!!1!), a fact that further supports the idea of subduction [excuse the sarcasm]. The speaker seems to have an incomplete understanding of the Theory of Plate Tectonics as it exists today. The "conspiracy" tone of the video is annoying, not only because of the conceited and paranoid ramblings, but also because it lacks any actual science (there were no oceans? Where did th water come from? Where did life originate if not the oceans?), flies in the face of all brands of evidence for Plate Tectonics, and defies plain, common reasoning...For example:
If the Earth was (is) expanding, and has doubled in volume since the extinction of the dinosaurs, that means that *whips out calculator* the acceleration caused by gravity would be 15.56 m/ss (instead of the 9.80 m/ss it is today) - this would have profound implications in almost everything. An average man (70 Kg) who weighs 154# would weigh 244# - never mind the poor dinosaurs (Argentinosaurus had a mass of 99,792 Kg - meaning its bones were capable of handling 977,961 N of force, not 1,552,417 N). Not to mention the profound effects on atmospheric pressure, hydrostatic pressure, and by extension, evolution, etc..
Everything this hypothesis claims to explain is explained and accounted for better by Plate Tectonics, which also has a huge amount of evidence going for it. We might as well be arguing creationism vs evolution.
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