Actually the water from a vapor or ice canopy wouldn't amount to much at all.
Hydro plate theory says that there was water trapped in subterranean vaults and
during the break up phase of the flood when the fountains of the great deep
burst forth as steam these vaults drained and the continents started moving
extremely rapidly. At this point there was no everest or other huge mountains
like we have today nor were the seas and oceans nearly as deep. In those times
the earth would have been much smoother than today more level as it were. So
youd not need to have crazy deep water to submerge every thing in fact youd need
no more than what we see around us today in the oceans seas and lakes to
completely cover the earth till the highest mountains then would have been under
water by 60 feet.

Read Walt Browns book in the beginning online for free here
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ its easy to read and packed full of
information. Also current models of the canopy theory all have a heat problem
that needs to be addressed the water re entering the atmosphere would race the
planets temperature up to a few 1000 degrees F i my self think there was a
canopy and that the base assumption as to thickness of the canopy theory may be
off.

But sadly i lack the understanding of the math and physics involved to work on
that my self.
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> > Subject: [CreationTalk] Re: Hydroplate Theory
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> >  I missed the first part of this discussion and haven't read the book in
question.   I was wondering if it references the scientific hypothesis
concerning the Earth having "rings" like Saturn and also the expanding earth
theory. Both of which answer many questions; both scientifically and
theologically.   The rings made of ice, dust and asteroids would have cast a
shadow changing the Earths conditions. Could have been the water above the
firmament and the water for the windows of heaven. If all that matter plus large
asteroid(s), which may have caused the rings collapse, and break up of earth's
crust, was added to the Earths volume it could have caused the Earth to expand.
Causing the separation of the continents. The resulting increased gravity would
explain the large fauna before the flood. Like 400 lb. flying lizards that
couldn't possibly fly in todays gravity.  I think these would combine well with
the hydroplate theory.   See expanding or
> > growing earth theories.  Howie
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> > > How many followers of the Hydroplate Theory do we have out there?I first
read the theory about 10 months ago.I first read the book online and then bought
it and have read it three times since.I'm quite amazed that all this could have
come out of the head of one man.It's brilliant.
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> I did some research a few years ago and stumbled on some interesting
scientific facts.
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> 1) the earth is encircled by several layers, or spheres. The troposphere,
stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
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> 2) water remains a liquid under certain temperatures and atmospheric
pressures.
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> 3) the mesosphere's pressure is 0.005 mb and its mean temperature is about -90
degrees C.
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> 4) water remains water at a pressure of 0.005 mb at -90 degrees C.
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> Coincidence????
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> Therefore, one can conclude that at one time there was a water canopy
encircling the globe that was indeed water due to the nature of water and the
conditions of the mesosphere. Nikola Tesla once theoretically showed that if one
were to make a ring encircling the planet at the equator, and removed all of its
supports, the ring would remain in the air. The strength of gravity at the
mesosphere plus the surface tension strength of the water would keep it at that
altitude unless something catastrophic disturbed the water sufficiently to cause
it to decohere and fall to the earth.
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> Therefore, the water that was suspended all fell to the earth, got absorbed by
the earth and sunk underground, thereby increasing the diameter of the earth. As
I mentioned elsewhere, the water discovered by scientists under the earth would
cover Mt. Everest with several miles of water, even though the Bible says some
60 feet.
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> This is the explanation in my mind for the global flood, the globally warm
conditions of earth before the flood, and many other things including the
negative effects of solar radiation and aging, reducing the human lifespan. The
discovery of all that underground water being the last piece of evidence for me.
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> If there was a global killing asteroid, it might actually have been the one
that broke the waters above the "firmament". The dust from the asteriod mixes
with the rain of water falling from the mesosphere, leaves a global sediment
layer of that rare element, then gets covered over by the other layers of
sediment.
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> The inrush of UV, x-ray, cosmic, gamma and other radiations normally filtered
by the water now rapidly aged everything (form what I very limitedly understand
about the effects of radiation on causing a premature aging of elements) and
produces a false reading of fossils of millions on millions of years old.
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> That's my pet theory... for what it's worth.
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> Harry
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