The Logical Fallacies of Plate Tectonics
( ... The Great Big Bad Ugly Fat Nonsenses of Plate Tectonics...)
The Logical Fallacies of Plate Tectonics
( ... The Great Big Bad Ugly Fat Nonsenses of Plate Tectonics...)
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what's said about the objectivity of science the reality is quite otherwise.
This is never more clearly illustrated than when a new idea comes along.
For usually the difficult thing is not taking it on board (its logic is
often compelling) but giving up the old beliefs that have become entrenched.
What's more, the balance usually revolves around something extremely self-evident
and simple. So self-evident and simple in fact that in retrospect
once the change is made it is almost inconceivable how things could have
been seen otherwise. For example in their day concepts such
as Flat Earth, Geocentric System and an Earth encapsuled in an inverted
bowl-like firmament of stars were the products of the keenest minds, the
cutting edge of contemporary thought. Today these ideas are seen
as childishly naive and ludicrous, not just by scientists cognitive of
facts but also by an uninformed general public. There is a quality of proportion
('ratio'), ...rationality, which demands to be considered, and whose analysis
is even within the grasp of a child, given the accepted mores and beliefs
of the time - axioms which weave a complex of permissions and restrictions
on the rational mind.
And so it is with Plate Tectonics in which it is posited that the surface deformation of the planet is driven by what is tantamount to its internal indigestion - connvection cells. The unwarranted presumptions on which Plate Tectonics is based and the many conundrums and contradictions which derive from these render the whole concept of Plate Tectonics ever less tenable, particularly when nowhere in the consensus position is there taken into account the most marked structural configuration of the planet - its spin symmetry: the Earth's spin has no place in the grand design of Plate Tectonics. From any rational viewpoint the Earth's spin is obviously implicated - In terms of geological time the Earth is spinning like a top, and has an oblate first-order shape that reflects it. Of course spin is implicated. It is staring us in the face in the first-order oblateness of the planet! Rationally we would expect nothing less. Why then are the smaller scale geological expressions of it, which are similarly obvious once seen, not similarly regarded? Unfortunately the answer to that one has nothing to do with the veracity of the geological facts or logic, but has everything to do with science as a profession and the priority for hypothetical models over observable fact. The structures that describe spin are the same structures that describe enlargement; the two are hand-in-glove expressions of the same dynamical behaviour; if we accept the inscription of spin on global geological structure, then the dynamics of enlargement follow axiomatically regardless of any 'final causal explanation' of the relationship. They are, .. empirically, genetically, and logically - tied. For a time the two models (Plate Tectonics and Earth Expansion) must exist side-by-side. This is not so that there can be a period of proper scientific evaluation and discussion.
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. | Indeed
it would be reassuring on the openmindedness of science if it were.
But it isn't. The time is literally to allow the old ideas of Plate
Tectonics to wither through the imperatives of retiral and death of its
adherents, whose interest its political supremacy has for a time served.
In the meantime the responsibility on those proponents of the new idea
is to 'get it out there' by whatever means possible. The internet
is the emerging medium for this. The view that side-stepping
peer
review renders posting on the net worthless is for the reader to decide,
when consensus self-interest has nothing to gain and everything to lose
from acknowledging any validity of its nemesis.
The nonsenses 1-10 listed above are conspicuous and reflect the order of their writing. Others have been added but there is as yet no priority of importance, one Plate Tectonic tenet is as nonsensical as the other. The first nonsense details the omission in regard to the Earth's rotation reflected in the growth of transform faults and spreading ridges, which would not only have prevented Plate Tectonics from ever having been taken up in the first place, but would have pointed it unerringly in the direction of Earth Expansion. The loss to Earth Science of more than half a century in a blind alley in which it is impossible to turn around is inestimable. <Weep Here> The second nonsense draws attention to the unwarranted choice by plate tectonics of one plate being moved under the other (subduction) from its rational alternative, one plate being moved over the other (overriding), when the interfacial dynamics of both are equivalent, and when the implications for the Earth's spin over convection are obvious and absolute. This particular nonsense underscores the Plate Tectonic belief in the doppelgangers of subduction and convection, which with the first nonsense (omission) lays the foundation for plate tectonics as JUNK SCIENCE. The third to ninth nonsenses highlight the gap between the ad hoc theory of plate tectonics and the many facts of its expression. Many more nonsenses can be added. The tenth nonsense briefly describes the road map, the 'flow-chart', the faulty logic of plate tectonics which derives from the first two nonsenses. Even though clearly faulty, this 'logic' is used to reinforce the fundamental belief underpinning the entire edifice of Plate Tectonics and is the apagos satanos used to brandish in the face of any dissent. Even whilst patently shooting itself in the foot, this 'logic' is the principal tool which has been used to develop a politics of consensus which has prevented any real advance since plate tectonics was first formulated. That a consensus for plate tectonics exists at all in the face of such obvious nonsenses is a severe indictment of Earth scientists. That this consensus is monolithic is an indictment of the way that science is funded. Politics and self-interest have obviously and unashamedly overtaken the science. It all needs a good shake-up!
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| "...There is an inherent limitation of application of plate tectonics that is neglected by its adherents. Processes within the earth may generate various modes of tectonic behavior -- one of which is the plate response. An unfortunate tendency has been selectivity in choice of data used, attributing all features to drift patterns, to base broad interpretations on limited data, and worst of all, to be woefully ignorant of basic geological knowledge in many of the model areas." http://geology.uprm.edu/Morelock/plate.htm |
Why is it possible to find
so much wrong with Plate Tectonics?
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