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All Your Pillars

Kilre

on Nov. 3, 2009

There is a lot I wish I could imagine.

Unfortunately, while I can imagine a lot, some of the things I can imagine are some of the most idiotic, inane things ever conceived by a rational mind, so I just keep them to myself and not bother the already bothered world with more bothers.

Then comes along hydroplate theory.

In a nutshell, hydroplate theory is one of the many attempts to reconcile Biblical literalism with a scientific approach to looking at the world. In this case, there was some confusion over how much science was lost in the translation.

For one, as I've said before, and I'm sure others harp as well, you don't start with a goal in mind and then try to fix experiments to show what you want. That is exactly what hydroplate theory is doing: there are these things called fault lines, that must be where the water from the Genesis verses came from inside the Earth; the continents are kind of moving, that movement is left over from the Flood's rupturing of the crust; there are watery elements out in space, away from Earth, they must have got that water from the Earth, as the Earth was the only source of water in the solar system; the Grand Canyon looks as though it was carved out, so a giant Flood did it. The world is just not perfect, so there must have been a great catastrophe, and that catastrophe had to have been the flood.

It smacks of an ad hoc rationalization. It ignores a lot of scientific evidence to the contrary, or co-opts it for its own purposes. This is standard practice for creationists, though.

For a few refutations of hydroplate theory, check these places out:
http://www.answersincreation.org/walter_brown_hydroplate_theory.htm
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/hydro.html