1. How can God be Right? An overview of the Hydroplate Theory Dr. Walt Brown www.creationscience.com

2. How can God be Right? “Science “Science has proven millions of years” “Dinosaurs “Dinosaurs died out millions of years before man arrived” “God “God couldn’t have created in six days” “Noah’s “Noah’s flood is a myth, or at most just a local flood”

3. How can God be Right? If I could demonstrate to you a scientific explanation for the world around you that –Explains –Explains every major geologic anomaly, as well as features of near-Earth astronomy… –Fits –Fits the facts better than any other explanation available… –Is –Is consistent with God’s testimony… Would you concede that God could be right?

4. Predominant Theory of Geology: Plate Tectonics The Earth’s crust rides on great plates that are constantly spreading apart and subducting under.

5. This is the explanation of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge.

6. Mid Oceanic Ridge –Intersecting –Intersecting axial rifts! –Overlapping –Overlapping regions

7. Predominant Theory of Geology: Plate Tectonics What What force moves the plates? –Subduction? – Physically impossible!

8. Predominant Theory of Geology: Plate Tectonics Why Why is there a continental shelf?

9. Predominant Theory of Geology: Plate Tectonics Why Why are there Deep Trenches in the Pacific? …but not in the Atlantic?

10. Predominant Theory of Geology: Plate Tectonics Earthquakes –It’s –It’s where the plates rub together or one subducts under the other, right? –Then –Then why are there many powerful ones far from plate boundaries, and so deep, the rock should be clay-like.

11. Predominant Theory of Geology: Plate Tectonics Magnetic Reversals –Not –Not reversals at all! –Intensity –Intensity fluctuations –Some –Some perpendicular to the ridge

12. 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!

13. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Submarine Canyons Beach Continental Shelf The “drop-off” Ocean surface Large River like Amazon What cut this deep V gouge in the Continental shelf 15,000 feet below sea level? Beach

14. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Submarine Canyons Continental Shelf The “drop-off” Ocean surface Large River like Amazon What cut this deep V gouge in the Continental shelf up to 15,000 feet below sea level? Beach

15. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Geologic Geologic Anomalies –Coal –Coal and oil in Antarctica –Methane –Methane in ice –Ice –Ice Age (s) Requires Requires heavy precipitation AND… Extended Extended and extreme cold temperatures… at the same time! That’s That’s a contradiction!

16. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Frozen Mammoths –Fleshy –Fleshy remains –Quickly –Quickly frozen –Food –Food in mouth and stomach –Many –Many of them crushed –Virtually –Virtually all of them suffocated

17. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Mountains –Crumpled –Crumpled and buckled –Folded sediments

18. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Metamorphic rock –Requires –Requires flowing water –In –In traditional Geology, where is this necessary ingredient?

19. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Plateaus –Raised –Raised areas of the Earth –Appear –Appear to be floating on the rock beneath them

20. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Limestone –Made –Made from calcium carbonate Requires Requires carbon –There –There is too much calcium carbonate to have come from known processes. There is no adequate source for the carbon!

21. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Overthrusts –Horizontal –Horizontal sliding for miles and miles Too Too much friction Materials Materials (rock) not strong enough to be pushed or pulled with the friction that would be present –And –And yet, they’re not crushed

22. Predominant Theory of Geology: No explanation for Salt Domes –What –What is the source of all that salt? –How –How did the salt all get collected together? –Why –Why is it a dome shape?

23. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Volcanoes & Lava –Where –Where is the source? –The –The Earth’s crust is 6 to 60 miles thick –All –All cracks lower than 5 miles are squeezed shut! –The –The mantle is over 1800 miles thick and is solid material before you get to the molten core of the Earth.

24. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Geothermal Heat –What –What caused the magma for volcanoes? Near-crust Near-crust magma is unassociated with the molten core –Why –Why is the Earth’s core molten? –Earth’s –Earth’s crust appears to have never been molten

25. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Sediments –Stratified –Stratified layers of rock — how did that happen? –“Billions –“Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the Earth”

26. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Jigsaw Fit of the Continents –Pangaea

27. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Jigsaw Fit of the Continents –Not –Not as good a fit as you were led to believe –If –If you consider the continents with the continental shelves, the fit is rather poor.

28. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Jigsaw Fit of the Continents –There –There is a much better fit of the continents against the base of the mid-Atlantic Ridge

29. Jigsaw Fit of the Continents –Yes, –Yes, the continents were at one time connected, but –They –They were connected by rock that is no longer present. –Where –Where did the rock go? Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for

30. Layered Fossils –Fossils –Fossils are rarely formed today –Animals –Animals and plants decay. Fossils must be rapidly buried. –Fossils –Fossils of sea life are found on every major mountain range. How How did they become buried way up in the mountains?

31. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Change in Tilt of Earth’s Axis –This –This has been measured and documented –As –As nearly as they can tell, it began about 2345 BC (The Flood was approximately 2348 BC) Hmmmm…

32. Predominant Theory of Geology: Inadequate explanation for Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites –Where –Where did they come from? –Asteroids: –Asteroids: an exploded Planet? The 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: –Comets: Oort cloud? Undetectable Undetectable ring of comet material surrounding the Solar System Conclusion: Conclusion: It exists because it must.

33. How to Evaluate Theories* Process Process Parsimony Parsimony Prediction Prediction *In the Beginning…, 7 th Edition, Dr. Walter Brown, pp.98-99

34. How to Evaluate Theories Process 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.

35. How to Evaluate Theories Parsimony 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.

36. How to Evaluate Theories Prediction 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.

37. 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…, 7 th ed., Dr. Walter Brown, p.99

38. 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 –Is consistent with God’s testimony… –Explains –Explains every major geologic anomaly, as well as features of near-Earth astronomy… –Fits –Fits the facts better than any other explanation available…

39. God is Truth Because our God IS God