In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - What Predictions of the Hydroplate Theory Have Been Confirmed?

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What Predictions of the Hydroplate Theory Have Been Confirmed?

All the predictions of the hydroplate theory are summarized below. Confirmed predictions are in bold, and a partially missed prediction is in italics. Page numbers, where more information can be found, are in parentheses.

1. pooled water under mountains (121)

2. salty water in very deep granite cracks (121)

3. hidden canyons (125)

4. decelerating plates (125)

5. fracture zones (133)

6. hydrothermal vents (133)

7. granite layer under Pacific floor (153)

8. fossils in and near trenches (154)

9. inner core decelerating (161)

10. age of Hawaiian islands (163)

11. wide varves not under lakes (173)

12. chemistry of lake basins (195)

13. slot canyons, deep cracks (197)

14. the inner gorge is a crack (198)

15. fault under monocline (210)

16. loess at bottom of ice cores (240)

17. muck on Siberian plateaus (241)

18. rock ice is salty (241)

19. bubbles in rock ice (241)

20. muck particles in rock ice (241)

21. no fossils below mammoths (242)

22. radiocarbon dating mammoths (243)

23. ice age can be demonstrated (255)

24. salt on Mars (271)

25. moons around some comets (272)

26. mass of solar system (274)

27. strange comet pairs (274)

28. heavy hydrogen in deep water (276)

29. salt and bacteria in comets (276)

30. no Oort cloud (284)

31. no incoming hyperbolic comets (284)

32. argon only in comet crust (285)

33. asteroids are rock piles (293)

34. asteroid rocks are magnetized (295)

35. mining asteroids too costly (296)

36. air deposit of Mars’ sediments (302)

37. heavy hydrogen in space (302)

38. carbon-14 in “old” bones (341)

39. bacteria on Mars (381)

40. spin rate and direction of Ceres (306)