Question for young earth creationists

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The continental breakup came with the flood, scripture tells us that the earth split open and great amounts of water flowed forth, this is what I think happened as far as the continents being formed. This would account for the mountains which, biblically could not have existed or there would have been rain before the flood, because of the uplifting of air caused by mountains. This would explain why rain fell as it does today after the flood and why rain did not fall before the flood. Also with such destructive forces going on it would explain why the evidence for the flood no longer exist.
I do believe that the world could be 50,000 years old, we do have a dating system that is accurate to that age. Even at 50,000 years from a biblical standpoint of creation the gene pool would be pure and there would not have been enough time to completely ruin it. Actually I do believe that between the time Adam brought sin into the world and the flood were some 1700 years, this small amount of time would not have had much effect on a pure gene pool. Of course these are my beliefs and because my profession is not science I can not prove it, I do see it to be a plausible idea.

Unfortunately for this theory, the age of the drifing can be measured by the magnetic alignment of the rocks. with polar orientation shifting and marking the eras within the rock when they cool enough. So you can see the eons as strips in the ocean floor when measured with magnetic sensitive equipment.

http://earthsci.org/education/teacher/ba...latec.html

another clue to the vast age of the earth is vulcanism.

In Iceland, sub-sea volcanism interacts with the hot mantle plume, creating the incredibly volcanic island that we know today. And what of the ancient volcanoes, which formed 60 million years ago when the mantle plume first reached the Earth’s surface?

Well, their remains are perfectly preserved in the British Isles today — they form the islands of Rum, Skye, Mull and Arran in Scotland, Lundy Island in England, and the Mourne Mountains of Northern Ireland.

These ancient volcanoes have been eroded away over the millions of years since they ceased to be active, so that now we can see the cold remains of the magma chambers — the furnaces of the volcano.

Geologists and volcanologists study these ancient British volcanoes, and they provide vital information about what might be happening at depth beneath active Icelandic volcanoes.

they know that these islands were formed by the same magma plume as the ones in iceland because each plume has a unique mineral and chemical composition a sort of signature.

These islands have also eroded away from the giant volcanoes that they were, leaving just the core, again a process that takes eons.
50.000 years pah, a blink of an eye in geological terms.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/volcanoes/...tions.html