Hydroplates

Hydroplates are a concept proposed by retired USAF colonel and mechanical engineer Walt Brown of superfast continental drift in his book titled, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. The vast majority of geologists and other scientists consider the idea to be religiously-motivated pseudoscience with no scientific evidence to support it. Also, many creationists organizations such as Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research consider the hydroplate notion to be unworkable.

Brown proposes that there was once a layer of subterranean water that acted as a lubricant, allowing the continents to rapidly move from their former position to their present-day position in only a few years (or less). Brown claims that a one-mile-thick layer of salt water has been detected 10 miles below the Tibetan Plateau [1]. This belief is used as support for a biblical inerrantist view of the creation and flood accounts in the Bible.

See also

Science:

• Plate tectonics

Creationism:

• Creation science
• Flood geology
• Young Earth creationism

External links

Supporters

• Center for Scientific Creation: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
• http://www.cryingvoice.com/Evolution/Hydroplate1.html
• EarthAge.org — Is the Mid Atlantic Ridge Still Spreading? By Randy S. Berg

Critics

• Is catastrophic plate tectonics part of Earth history? By Michael Oard (creationist, supports vertical tectonics, opposes hydroplate)
• What about continental drift? By Don Batten, Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, and Carl Wieland. (creationist, supports catastrophic plate tectonics, opposes hydroplate)
• http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CH/CH420.html
• http://home.entouch.net/dmd/hydroplate.htm
• http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/hydro.html
• CreationTheory.org Young-Earth Creationism — Flood Geology