Is the Hydroplate Theory Consistent with the Bible?
Police can usually reconstruct the general outlines of an automobile accident by carefully studying the skid marks and wreckagewithout hearing from eyewitnesses. So also, some details of the flood can be pieced together by studying its wreckage. Nevertheless, witnesses provide details that are consistent with the physical evidence as well as information we could never have learned otherwise. For example, the flood was initiated by God as a consequence of man’s sin. We may never understand exactly how God physically triggered the flood. However, once triggered, many other events must have occurred whose consequences, or “wreckage,” we can still see. Examples are: the death, rapid burial, and preservation of trillions of organisms as fossils in layered rocks, the crumpling of major mountains, the jigsaw fit of the continents, the formation of strange features on the ocean floor, the gouging out of canyons, and hundreds of other events. One should be able to place many of these consequenc
