Sea Floor Records Ancient Earth

It would be interesting if they could determine the relative strengths between plate tectonics of 3.8 billion years ago and today. I might give some insight into the mechanisms behind it. If the Earth was much hotter back then, I would imagine the shifts would have been more violent due to strong convection currents in the mantle.

Any thoughts on how that could be accomplished?

I'm no geologist, so I don't know how they would do it, but if they can tell that a rock is 3.8 billion years old, they should be able to find out other information too.

If the plates were moving quicker, the rock would have been under more strain as they first formed and cooled which may have left tell-tale characteristics that could be identified by elemental analysis, mineral composition analysis or crystal domain size.

Very interesting, considering the earth is only 6500 to 7000 years old.

I believe that it is quite plausible that the Earth is, in fact, only 6,500 to 7,000 years old. The questions I have are...

What was it called for any of the several billion years before that?

And,

Who called it anything more than about 40,000 years ago?

And,

Do (or have) any animals, other than modern humans, have (or have had) a cognitive concept for "Earth" and; if so, what could that be understood to mean?

And,

If God did create our present world in literal Biblical terms about 6,500 to 7,000 years ago, as the Creationists maintain, have those same Creationists considered that such a "God" is much more likely to be one or more representatives of an execeedingly advanced, vastly older, mortal, extraterrestrial, space-traversing, planet seeding, civilization than to a bearded, white robe wearing, omnipotent, omniscient, magic spirit in Heaven who has been there since before time and is creator of all? Hell, such gods may have even been vulgar rapists prone to semi-bestiality with down-link versions of their species--i.e., humans or near proto-humans--while on pleasure-seeking vacation jaunts to outback planets such as Earth? Or, perhaps they were rogue researchers of the "Island of Dr. Moreau" ilk who used the Earth as a testing ground for biological experimentation. Oh how many options there are and none of them, regardless of how sci-fi and fantastical, are any less unlikely than the simplistic, shrouded in mystery, unthinkingly swallowed whole, bearded magic spirit in Heaven who has been there since before time and is creator of all (and father with highly questionable decision-making rationales).

Please...

Sorry for the thread nipping, soap box tirade, but it was my turn and, as always, was moderately fun.