Transcript How can God be Right?

How can God be Right?
An overview of the Hydroplate Theory
Dr. Walt Brown
www.creationscience.com
How can God be Right?
• “Science has proven millions of years”
• “Dinosaurs died out millions of years
before man arrived”
• “God couldn’t have created in six days”
• “Noah’s flood is a myth, or at most just a
local flood”
How can God be Right?
If I could demonstrate to you a scientific
explanation for the world around you that
– Explains every major geologic anomaly, as
well as features of near-Earth astronomy…
– Fits the facts better than any other
explanation available…
– Is consistent with God’s testimony…
Would you concede that God could be right?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
The Earth’s crust rides on great plates that
are constantly spreading apart and
subducting under.
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
This is the explanation of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge.
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
Mid Oceanic Ridge
– Intersecting axial rifts!
– Overlapping regions
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
• What force moves the plates?
– Subduction? – Physically impossible!
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
• Why is there a
continental shelf?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
• Why are there Deep
Trenches in the
Pacific?
…but not in the
Atlantic?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
– It’s where the plates rub together or one
subducts under the other, right?
– Then why are there many powerful ones far
from plate boundaries, and so deep, the rock
should be clay-like.
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Plate Tectonics
Magnetic Reversals
– Not reversals at all!
– Intensity fluctuations
– Some perpendicular
to the ridge
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Submarine Canyons
V-shaped. Why?
They seem to be
extensions of
existing rivers…
Up to 15,000 feet
below sea level!
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Submarine Canyons
Large River like Amazon
Continental
Shelf
Beach
The “drop-off”
Ocean surface
What cut this deep V gouge in
the Continental shelf up to
15,000 feet below sea level?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
• Geologic Anomalies
– Coal and oil in Antarctica
– Methane in ice
– Ice Age (s)
• Requires heavy precipitation AND…
• Extended and extreme cold temperatures…
at the same time!
• That’s a contradiction!
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Frozen Mammoths
– Fleshy remains
– Quickly frozen
– Food in mouth and
stomach
– Many of them crushed
– Virtually all of them suffocated
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Mountains
– Crumpled and buckled
– Folded
sediments
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Metamorphic rock
– Requires flowing water
– In traditional Geology, where is this necessary
ingredient?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Plateaus
– Raised areas of the Earth
– Appear to be floating on the rock beneath
them
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Limestone
– Made from calcium carbonate
• Requires carbon
– There is too much
calcium carbonate
to have come from
known processes.
There is no
adequate source for
the carbon!
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Overthrusts
– Horizontal sliding for miles and miles
• Too much friction
• Materials (rock) not strong enough to be pushed or
pulled with the friction that would be present
– And yet, they’re not crushed
Predominant Theory of Geology:
No explanation for
Salt Domes
– What is the source of all that salt?
– How did the salt all get collected together?
– Why is it a dome shape?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Volcanoes & Lava
– Where is the source?
– The Earth’s crust is 6 to 60 miles thick
– All cracks lower than 5 miles are squeezed
shut!
– The mantle is over 1800 miles thick and is
solid material before you get to the molten
core of the Earth.
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Geothermal Heat
– What caused the magma for volcanoes?
• Near-crust magma is unassociated with the molten
core
– Why is the Earth’s core molten?
– Earth’s crust appears to have never been
molten
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Sediments
– Stratified layers of rock — how did that
happen?
– “Billions of dead things buried in rock layers
laid down by water all over the Earth”
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Jigsaw Fit of the Continents
– Pangaea
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Jigsaw Fit of the Continents
– Not as good a fit as you were led to believe
– If you consider the continents with the
continental shelves, the fit is rather poor.
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Jigsaw Fit of the Continents
– There is a much better fit of the continents
against the base of the
mid-Atlantic Ridge
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Jigsaw Fit of the Continents
– Yes, the continents were at one time connected, but
– They were connected by rock that is no longer present.
– Where did the rock go?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Layered Fossils
– Fossils are rarely formed today
– Animals and plants decay. Fossils must be
rapidly buried.
– Fossils of sea life are found on every major
mountain range.
• How did they become buried way up in the
mountains?
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Change in Tilt of Earth’s Axis
– This has been measured and documented
– As nearly as they can tell, it began about
2345 BC
(The Flood was approximately 2348 BC)
Hmmmm…
Predominant Theory of Geology:
Inadequate explanation for
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites
– Where did they come from?
– Asteroids: an exploded Planet?
• The total mass of all asteroids is less than 0.05% of the Earth’s
mass. Combining all the asteroids would hardly produce a planet.
– Comets: Oort cloud?
• Undetectable ring of comet material surrounding
the Solar System
• Conclusion: It exists because it must.
How to Evaluate Theories*
• Process
• Parsimony
• Prediction
*In the Beginning…, 7th Edition, Dr. Walter Brown, pp.98-99
How to Evaluate Theories
• Process
If a theory can explain all relevant observations
better than any other proposed explanation,
confidence in the explanation increases.
If the starting conditions and operation of physical
laws (all known processes) should have
produced results that are not present, then
confidence decreases.
How to Evaluate Theories
• Parsimony
The use of few assumptions. The simplest
explanation.
Few assumptions that explain many things
indicates a good theory. The more assumptions,
the less credible the theory. If more
assumptions have to be added as the theory is
explored, it becomes less credible.
How to Evaluate Theories
• Prediction
A good theory allows you to predict unusual
things if you look in the right places and
make the right measurements. Verified
predictions increase confidence in the
explanation.
How to Evaluate Theories
“Scientific explanations are never certain or
final, and the overused word ‘prove’ is
never justified except possibly in
mathematics or a court of law.” *
*In the Beginning…, 7th ed., Dr. Walter Brown, p.99
God is Truth
In the next session, we’ll explore a theory
which demonstrates that Science confirms God’s
Word.
We will see that it
–Is consistent with God’s testimony…
–Explains every major geologic anomaly, as well
as features of near-Earth astronomy…
–Fits the facts better than any other
explanation available…
God is Truth
Because our God
IS God