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- The Hydroplate Theory
- Dr. Walt Brown
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Biography
New evidence shows that the earth has experienced a devastating, worldwide flood, whose waters violently burst forth from under the earth’s crust. Standard “textbook” explanations for many of earth’s major features are scientifically flawed. We can now explain, using well-understood phenomena, how this cataclysmic event rapidly formed so many features. These and other mysteries, listed below, are best explained by an earthshaking event, far more catastrophic than almost anyone has imagined.
The Grand Canyon • Mid-Oceanic Ridge • Continental Shelves and Slopes • Ocean Trenches • Earthquakes
Magnetic Variations on the Ocean Floor • Submarine Canyons • Coal and Oil • Methane Hydrates
Ice Age • Frozen Mammoths • Major Mountain Ranges • Overthrusts • Volcanoes and Lava • Geothermal Heat
Strata and Layered Fossils • Limestone • Metamorphic Rock • Plateaus • The Moho
Salt Domes • Jigsaw Fit of the Continents • Changing Axis Tilt • Comets, Asteroids, and Meteoroids
Each appears to be a consequence of a sudden and unrepeatable event—a global flood whose waters erupted from interconnected, worldwide subterranean chambers with an energy release exceeding the explosion of 300 trillion hydrogen bombs. When the hydroplate theory is understood by reading In The Beginning, it will resolve the parade of mysteries outlined above. In the book, a complete chapter is devoted to 7 of these topics. All 25 topics could be expanded into separate chapters.
But first, what is a hydroplate? Before the global flood, considerable water was under the earth’s crust. Pressure increases in this subterranean water ruptured that crust, breaking it into plates. The escaping water flooded the earth. Because hydro means water, those crustal plates will be called hydroplates. Where they broke, how they moved, and hundreds of other details and evidence—all consistent with the laws of physics—constitute the hydroplate theory and explain to a great extent why the earth looks as it does.
Walt Brown received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He has taught college courses in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Brown is a retired full colonel (Air Force), West Point graduate, and former Army Ranger and paratrooper. Assignments during his 21 years in the military included: Director of Benét Laboratories (a U.S. Army research, development, and engineering facility) near Albany, New York; tenured associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy; and Chief of Science and Technology Studies at the Air War College. For much of his life Walt Brown was an evolutionist, but after years of study, he became convinced of the scientific validity of creation and a global flood. Since retiring from the military, Dr. Brown has been the Director of the Center for Scientific Creation. He devotes full time to teaching, research, and writing on creation and the flood.
(the following is an excerpt from Julia Mulfinger-Orozco's book, Christian Men of Science, 11 Men Who Changed the World. The entire text of the biography can be read here):
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Julia.html
THE HYDROPLATE THEORY - As Dr. Brown thought about the feasibility of the flood, he realized that the Genesis flood was literally an earthshaking event, far more catastrophic than almost anyone had imagined. He was startled by the violence of the event.
When he first thought about the flood, he had been stumped by the mechanism of it all. Yet he saw that the geological evidence corresponded to a devastating, worldwide flood. So where did so much water come from? And where did it go?
As he pondered these questions and studied the Biblical and scientific details, a theory for the mechanism of the flood began to gel in his mind. It became clear to Dr. Brown how the gigantic flood of Noah’s day would explain many mysterious features on earth—features that few people realize are not explained by current science. Many of these major features fit into place beautifully if the flood waters came from under the earth’s crust—from worldwide, interconnected chambers that erupted violently as “the fountains of the great deep.”
Dr. Brown calls his theory of the flood the hydroplate theory. It is a mature and detailed theory, complete with many predictions of what science should uncover in the future if his theory is correct. Some of Dr. Brown’s published predictions have already come true. He believes that successful predictions are the best test of a theory’s strength and fruitfulness; scientists who are unwilling to make and publish predictions show a lack of scientific rigor and confidence. “A weak theory will produce few predictions,” he says. “If theories could not be published unless they included numerous details and specific predictions, we would be mercifully spared many distractions and false ideas.”
In 1993 Dr. Brown was asked to narrate a five-minute animation of his hydroplate theory for CBS television. CBS television executives had noticed the interest that the public has in Noah’s Ark, and they aired a two-hour special on Noah’s Ark. That program was seen by 43 million Americans and Canadians. Feedback from Dr. Brown’s portion of that program was overwhelmingly positive.