June 6 at 7 pm, GHCA meeting and webinar:
Genesis Flood Theories
in 3 parts
Part 1: Hydroplate Flood Theory
Answers and precise predictions.
Part 1 of 3 on Flood Theories
The Hydroplate Flood Theory (HPT) will be presented at the June 6 GHCA meeting by two well informed and enthusiastic proponents of this physical theory of the Genesis Flood. Recent surprise discoveries by NASA probes suggest that it is time to reevaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HPT and competing Flood theories. GHCA will do this in three parts in June, July and August. Our presenters for part one on HPT at Grace Bible Church of Houston will be:
DR. Pete Moore
Pete began speaking to Churches in Pueblo, Colorado on Bible, Science and Evolution in 1970. With local newspaper publicity it drew a crowd of 600 each week. In the year 2000 he chaired the committee to bring an Answers In Genesis (AIG) 3-day Creation Conference to Houston. It was held in Sept. 2002 with a total attendance of 3,000. His more recent work has been to help fund organizations that do scientific creation research and present that evidence to the public.
Mr. Brian Lauer
Brian, who became a Christian 27 years ago, has given creation and freedom talks from Minnesota to Florida at churches, schools, colleges, conferences, and clubs. He helped start creation or Bible clubs at colleges and communities, including St. Cloud State University’s Grace Campus Fellowship. Last year, Brian spoke more than 40 times. In September 2023, he emceed the world’s first online Hydroplate Conference that highlighted three Ph.D. level speakers.
Join us for this exciting and informative series beginning June 6 at 7 pm and invite some friends. The venue in June is Grace Bible Church of Houston, 13700 Schroeder Road, Houston, Texas 77070. For driving directions scroll to the bottom of this article.
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GHCA Framework for Creation and Flood Studies
Theories about how the Genesis Flood physically happened are highly intriguing and often controversial. Their change over time also demonstrates the forward progress of creation science. The following provides some important context for our presentations. One broad approach is used by those who want to attribute everything possible to natural processes that are observed in the present and minimize the supernatural activities of God throughout the creation and Flood narratives. This philosophy leans toward uniformitarianism. This philosophy suggests that the “present is the key to the past” and leads to “old Earth” evolutionary timeframes. Most of academia insists on a uniformitarian viewpoint. However, GHCA will present some of the many physical facts and reasons contrary to this uniformitarian approach. |
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Another broad approach is to consider supernatural activities of God when the biblical narrative indicates that He did supernatural activities. For example, in the creation narrative a day of creation is described as including one period of dark and one period of light. That narrative does not specify any time units like seconds, minutes, hours, or years. However, the inclusion of a singular period of dark and light in a day of creation does eliminate any period of time that includes many periods of dark and light. So, that seems to assert that God’s creative activity in each day of creation was accomplished with a very substantial amount of supernatural activity. For more on the days of creation please see the brief GHCA article, Biblical Creation.
The Flood narrative begins in Chapter 6 around 1500 years after the creation, fall and expulsion from Eden. God then tells Noah what God is going to do and why. Chapter 7 and 8 relate the rise and subsidence of the Flood. Ch 9 concerns the new Rainbow Covenant from God. Ch 10 is the section of genealogy known as the table of nations. Then Ch 11 starts the history of Abraham. Building a physical model of what happened in the Flood is not easy. We commonly assume that the physics we observe now was in operation during the Flood. However, we do not intend to presume that God did not do anything by His supernatural power where scripture indicates He did. It is also important for a Flood theory to propose a set of initial conditions at the beginning of the Flood. Then the Flood theory processes would convert the initial conditions into the end of Flood conditions. The GHCA article The Biblical Flood discusses a number of issues that a Flood model must take into account. |
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The Hydroplate Theory (HPT) will be presented at the June 6 GHCA meeting. Hydroplate theory proposes a very different and intriguing set of initial conditions developed by Dr. Walt Brown. Brown is a PhD mechanical engineer who has been a professor at the Air Force Academy for many years.
The Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) will be presented at the July GHCA meeting. CPT has the largest following today because it is most consistent with modern geological observations, particularly tomographic studies of the Earth’s interior structure. The Canopy Theory (CT) was popular during the early part of the modern creation science movement, during the 1960s and 1970s. This theory has since been rejected by most because of valid scientific objections that were raised. However, I am sometimes surprised how many people were once impressed with CT but have not kept up with the progress of creation science. This theory will be briefly discussed in the first part of the August GHCA meeting. A roundtable discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of these three theories will be presented in the second half of the August meeting. The roundtable members will be invited to participate in person or online as a panelist. Those who are interested in being a roundtable panelist should contact me by reply to this email. |
June 6 Meeting Location: Part one, Hydroplate Theory, will be presented on June 6th at 7 pm at Grace Bible Church of Houston, 13700 Schroeder Road, Houston, Texas 77070.
Directions: From the intersection of Sam Houston Tollway N. and Tomball Parkway (249), go northwest on 249, after 2.5 miles watch for exit for Schroeder Rd and exit. At Schroeder Rd. turn right and follow Schroeder Rd. north about 0.7 miles. Watch for the Grace Bible Church sign and turn right into the parking lot.
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Part Two will present the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) Theory on July 11 at GHCA’s usual location, Houston’s First, The Loop, Reception Room at 7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024
Part three will present briefly Canopy Theory and a round table discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of all three theories. August date and location TBD.
Make sure to see all three presentations to get the whole story. Just hearing one presentation or another can be misleading.