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

2. Let this be your introduction to the Hydroplate Theory.
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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. Yes, this is a flood theory.
Hydroplate Theory
Did I say WATER?
Yes, this is a flood theory.
A global flood.

10. Hydroplate Theory Did I say WATER? Yes, this is a flood theory.
A global flood.
“A global flood would require HUGE amounts of water!”
Yes.

11. 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.

12. Hydroplate Theory “We’re talking Noah’s flood, right?”
“Well, if Noah’s flood was real…
Where’d the water come from?
and
Where’d the water go?”

13. Hydroplate Theory Four Phases Rupture phase Flood phase
Continental Drift phase
Recovery phase

14. 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).

15. Hydroplate Theory Rupture phase
“The fountains of the great deep.” (Genesis 7:11)

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. Hydroplate Theory Rupture phase
Material is ejected out of the crack that encircled the globe.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. Hydroplate Theory Flood phase
Movements frequently caused less dense layers to flow upward through more dense layers, resulting in salt-domes.
Sediments settled on the precipitated salt.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Hydroplate Theory Continental Drift phase
The American plates started to move 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.

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. Hydroplate Theory
Recovery phase
Earth’s big roll…

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. Hydroplate Theory
Video Demonstration

44. 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

45. Hydroplate Theory The Hydroplate Theory also explains
The Hydroplate theory even explains more than this!

46. Hydroplate Theory The Hydroplate Theory also explains
The Hydroplate theory even explains more than this!

47. 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!

48. 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 —