Connecting a Global Flood with the Mystery of Mankind's Ancient Past (cont.)
By David Warner Mathisen
Not only does this theory explain the same geological features which
the plate tectonic theory tries to explain, and does it in a way
which explains geological mysteries that tectonics has difficulties
explaining, but it also appears to throw light on many mysterious
aspects of mankind’s ancient past. For example, it is no doubt
well-known to readers of this website that many ancient monuments are
very precisely aligned with celestial phenomena (such as the rise or
transit of important stars or constellations), solar stations (such as the rising or setting of the sun
on the equinoxes, solstices, or cross-quarter days), and occasionally
with significant points on the lunar cycle, or with the cardinal
directions (the Great Pyramid being a notable example of alignment
with cardinal directions as well as with celestial phenomena). Many
of these ancient monuments are thousands of years old. If the theory
of plate tectonics is correct, proposing as it does that continental
plates often move an inch a year (sometimes more, sometimes less),
how is it possible that any of these alignments are still intact? At
an inch a year, the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge, and the megalithic
temples on Malta would have drifted hundreds of feet, and yet all of
them still display astronomical alignments, solar alignments,
cardinal direction alignments, or a combination of the above. The
hydroplate theory argues that the plates did slide, but that they did
so once, and that they are no longer drifting about the way the
tectonic theory says they are. They do continue to shift on
occasion (which is one cause of earthquakes, especially in those
areas next to the Pacific basin), but they do not drift. The
monuments mentioned above, of course, were built after the
cataclysmic flood, and hence supporters of the hydroplate theory are
not surprised that they are still aligned.
This question of the ongoing alignments of ancient monuments is just
one example of the intersection of geological theory and ancient
human history, and an example of the importance of examining the two
in conjunction with one another, because they are intimately
connected. Another example is the explanation of the sedimentary
layers found around the globe. Conventional theory holds that these
were laid down over hundreds of millions of years, but the hydroplate
theory argues that they were laid down during the flood event.
In fact, many geological features seem to indicate that these layers
were all soft and pliable when force was applied to create buckling
or folding of these layers, which is consistent with the hydroplate
theory and not with a theory of millions of years (in which case the
layers would be brittle and would not exhibit the graceful curves and
folds seen in many places on earth). Of course, if the strata were
all laid down during the flood event, then the assumption that
fossils (including human fossils) found in certain layers must be
extremely old may well be completely incorrect. Strangely, even
alternative researchers who reject the conventional explanations
typically assume that human fossils or artifacts found in strata
associated with great age are evidence that modern humans have been
around for hundreds of millions of years, instead of considering the
possibility that perhaps the strata are younger than the conventional
theorists assume.
The hydroplate theory argues that the thickening of the continental
plates at the end of the flood (when they ground to a halt) could
have altered the rotational alignment of the earth. By far the
thickest of the continents is found in the region of the Himalayas,
home to the highest mountains on the globe. If this region was
formed rapidly during a catastrophic event (as the hydroplate theory
argues that it was), it would have acted like a big lead weight
slapped onto the side of the spinning earth. The laws of physics
would argue that this weight would want to move towards the equator
by the principle of centrifugal force (if you spin a weight on a
string around your head, it will naturally want to spin straight
outwards). The Himalayas would have pulled towards the equator, but
the bulge of the earth’s extra mass at the equator (the “spare
tire” of mass at the equator, also caused by centrifugal force)
would have acted to counterbalance this motion, and a kind of
“tug-of-war” would have ensued. It was a tug-of-war
which the larger equatorial bulge would have ultimately won, but not
without a compromise, and in the process the entire earth would have
rotated as much as 35o to 45o, moving the areas
that were formerly at the poles to new latitudes, and swinging land
that had been in temperate latitudes up to the Arctic and down to the
Antarctic. This side-effect of the global flood would explain the
anomalous fossils of the far north and far south, and it would also
explain the submarine feature at the bottom of the Indian Ocean known
as Ninety
East Ridge, which points generally towards the
Himalayas and which is an important supporting piece of evidence for
this aspect of the theory.
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