Hydroplates

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Hydroplates are an alternative hypothesis 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. They are not founded on science. Many creationist 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.