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?
In the previous session, I said I would demonstrate to you
a scientific explanation for the world around you that
– 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…
Let this be your introduction to the
Hydroplate Theory.
How to Evaluate Theories*
A Quick Review
• 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
Hydroplate Theory
• Assumptions
There is only one
– Subterranean water
¾ mile thick layer of
supercritical water
containing a large
amount of dissolved
salt, minerals, and carbon
dioxide, 10 miles below
the Earth’s surface in
interconnected chambers.
Granite above, basalt below.
Hydroplate Theory
Did I say WATER?
Yes, this is a flood theory.
A global flood.
Hydroplate Theory
This flood was not your typical sewer
backup or river overflowing its banks.
Hurricane Katrina and its flooding aftermath
was an infinitesimal speck compared to
this.
This was the greatest catastrophic event
ever to occur on the Earth.
Hydroplate Theory
• Four Phases
– Rupture phase
– Flood phase
– Continental Drift phase
– Recovery phase
Hydroplate Theory
• Rupture phase
Where did the water come from?
The subterranean water was released.
– Pressure
– Failure — A crack – It likely began where the
Atlantic Ocean is today
– Propagation at 2 miles per second (7200
mph).
Hydroplate Theory
• Rupture phase
– “The fountains of
the great deep.”
(Genesis 7:11)
Hydroplate Theory
• Rupture phase
Initial stresses were relieved when the crack
circled the Earth in two to three hours.
One end of the crack ran into the path left by
the other end forming a T or Y shape.
Hydroplate Theory
• Rupture phase
Water and debris exploded out of the chamber
with tremendous force.
The water jetted super-sonically into, and far
above, the atmosphere.
An ocean of droplets and debris fell as torrential
rain great distances away.
Hydroplate Theory
• Rupture phase
Material is ejected out of the crack that
encircled the globe.
Hydroplate Theory
• Rupture phase
The most powerful jetting water and debris,
rock, mud, and water forming ice escaped the
Earth’s gravity and became comets, asteroids,
and meteors.
Hydroplate Theory
• Flood phase
The powerful upward-jetting water eroded both
sides of the 46,000 mile long rupture an
average of 800 miles wide.
The bottom portions of the exposed cliffs
continually crumbled and collapsed, adding to
the debris in the jetting fountains.
Where the lower portion eroded, once the
subterranean water was depleted, the rock
sloped downward and formed the continental
shelves.
Hydroplate Theory
• Flood phase
About 35% of the debris was from the basalt
floor.
All the eroded material gave the water a muddy
consistency which settled out over the surface
in a matter of days, burying many dead
animals, which became most of the world’s
fossils.
Through a process called Liquefaction, this
sediment and its contents got sorted and
stratified.
Hydroplate Theory
• Flood phase
Some of the debris-laden water fell as huge
masses of extremely cold, muddy hail which
buried, suffocated, and froze many animals
including mammoths.
This material did not stratify and is the source
of “muck,” loess (pronounced “lerse”), and
Yedomas today.
Hydroplate Theory
• Flood phase
The escaping water was hot. It tended to rise
to the top and evaporate.
As the water evaporated, salt and other
minerals would precipitate out.
Hydroplate Theory
• Flood phase
Sediments settled
on the precipitated
salt.
Movements frequently
caused less dense
layers to flow upward
through more dense
layers, resulting in
salt-domes.
Hydroplate Theory
• Flood phase
Decrease of pressure in the chamber water
caused a release of carbon dioxide resulting in
a precipitation of limestone.
Uprooted vegetation accumulated in masses;
sometimes sorted into layers. Later, these
were compressed and heated, forming coal
and oil.
Hydroplate Theory
•Continental Drift phase
The basalt layer in the earth is
normally compressed by the
overlying rock.
The overlying rock was blown
away.
Believe it or not, rock is
slightly elastic. The more
compression, the more
reaction when the
compressive forces are
removed; the basalt buckled
upward.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
The basalt Layer in the Atlantic buckled up and rose 10
miles!
This created slopes on each side of the rupture.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
Mid-Oceanic Ridge
As the floor rose, it stretched as a balloon
stretches when its radius increases. This
stretching produced cracks parallel and
perpendicular to the Mid-Oceanic Ridge.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift Phase
Mid-Oceanic Ridge
Parallel cracks were caused simply by the radius
of the bulge being greater than the rocks’
former radius. Perpendicular cracks were
caused by the material covering a greater Earth
circumference than it once did.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
The American plates started to
slide away from the
Euro/African plates, lubricated
by the underlying water.
The hydroplates accelerated away
from the widening Atlantic.
This movement lasted for about a
day, and then met with
resistance.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
What stopped the sliding?
Resistance that was the result of
Depletion of the underlying water
Collision with something else
On deceleration, each plate experienced a
compression event; buckling, crushing, and
thickening each plate. This squeezed up
mountains, made overthrusts, and trapped
water in large voids underneath.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
Friction at the base of the skidding plates
generated immense heat, enough to melt rock
and produce large volumes of magma.
Effects of this melted rock produced marble,
diamonds, lava outpourings, and volcanic
activity.
Volcanoes are from magma chambers
generated by this deceleration, not the molten
core.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
In the mean time, after the Atlantic floor rose,
the mass of the Earth shifted toward the
Atlantic.
The continental area which was where the
Pacific is today buckled toward the Atlantic
about 25 minutes after the Atlantic floor rose.
This formed deep trenches, and sank the
continental landmass which produced the
Pacific ocean we see today.
Hydroplate Theory
• Continental Drift phase
There is continental crust
found in the Pacific
floor.
This subsidence of the
mass through the earth
toward the Atlantic
caused massive heating
and produced the
Earth’s molten core.
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
Where did the water go?
As the compression event took place on a given continent,
the continents thickened and rose out of the water. This
caused the flood waters to begin to recede.
At some point portions of the subterranean water was
choked off.
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
Flood waters collected in the newly-opened
basins between the continents.
Sea level immediately after the flood was
several miles lower than today. This allowed
for land bridges that no longer exist.
Draining flood waters eroded deep channels
which are now major rivers, as well as
submarine canyons.
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
Thickened hydroplates applied greater pressure
to the basalt floor than the ocean water. The
plates sank over time and caused the ocean
levels to rise, isolating animals to various
continents.
It took many years (hundreds) after the flood
for things to settle into equilibrium. Many of
these processes continue even today.
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
The sudden formation of mountains altered the
Earth’s balance. This caused the Earth to roll
about 45° so the pre-flood North pole moved
to what is now Central Asia. This is why coal
and lush vegetation (as well as mammoth and
other animal remains) are found in arctic
regions. They were temperate regions before
the flood.
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
Earth’s big roll…
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
Continental basins, filled with water, became
inland seas.
Over time, many of these eroded through their
walls and carved gouges in the earth such as
the Grand Canyon.
Hydroplate Theory
• Recovery phase
As mountains sank toward their equilibrium
depth, in the same way a person sinks into a
waterbed, pressure under the crust on each
side of the mountains caused plateaus to rise.
Hydroplate Theory
Video Demonstration
Hydroplate Theory
That was a quick overview of the Hydroplate theory.
In it, we explained:
The Flood:
Where the water came from
Where the water went
Mid-Oceanic ridge
Continental plates
Submarine canyons
Magma/volcanoes
Fossils
Limestone
Mammoths
Coal and Oil formations
Overthrusts
Continental shelves
Geothermal heat
Earth’s molten core
Salt Domes
Jigsaw fit of the continents
Plateaus
Grand Canyon and others
Ocean trenches
Changing tilt of the Earth’s axis
Comets and Meteroids
Hydroplate Theory
The Hydroplate Theory also explains
The Hydroplate theory even explains more than this!
Hydroplate Theory
The Hydroplate Theory also explains
The Hydroplate theory even explains more than this!
Hydroplate Theory
The Hydroplate Theory also explains
Why a circle has 360°
Plumes
Chimney Rocks
Sorting of Fossils
Magma/volcanoes
Craters on the Moon
Earthquakes
Methane in Ice
Ice Age
Stratification of Rock
layers
Asteroid belt
Composition of Sedimentary
Rock
Ninety East Ridge
Granite
Varves
Flattened fish
Muck, Yedomas, and Loess
Absence of hyperbolic comets
Why Subduction cannot happen
The Hydroplate theory even explains more than this!
Hydroplate Theory
Yes, God is right and His Word is true.
He is the Creator. He knows all things.
He has told us the truth about what He did.
This truth will make sense of the world.
Let’s judge the words of man against
the Word of God,
and not the other way around.
— Ken Ham —