Mendicate Bias said:
Wiintendo said:
@highwaystar101
Yes, you understand right, I'm a Young Earth Bible Believing Authorized King James Using Self Professed Christian.
Geological column - stratigraphic layers, radiometric dating, carbon dating, and all the like have been address and explained numerous times by creation scientists many times before.
Of their ilk Kent Hovind is the creationist with whom I agree most with, I've also studied his work more so than other creationists. If you'd like to understand these points better, and at the same time gaining both sides of the argument I'd recommend watching some debates (may'be search for some with your favorite scientists.)
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So you believe in Kent Hovind? The same guy thats in jail right now? The guy that has recieved all his degrees from non-accredited universities that are known as being "diploma mills".
You do realize that the man has had no scientific education what so ever right?
Hovind is one of the biggest conspiracy nuts out there. I mean the things he believes in are down right insane. He thinks that laetrile, a cyanid releasing component, is a cancer cure that is being held from the public by the US government, and that is one of his more reasonable conspiracy theories.
Read this theory written by a man with no scientific background
Hovind summarizes his version of the young Earth creation story into the eponymous "Hovind Theory" taken from a variety of creationist sources.[40][41] The "Hovind Theory" was presented at Hovind lectures and in his work "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution".[41] Hovind explained the Biblical account of Noah as follows: Noah's family and two of every "kind" of animal (including young dinosaurs)[42] safely boarded the Ark before a −300 °F (−184 °C) ice meteor came flying toward the earth and broke up in space. Some of the meteor fragments became rings and others caused the impact craters on the moon and some of the planets. The remaining ice fragments fell to the North and South poles of the Earth, concentrated towards those regions by the Earth's magnetic field.
He explains the fossils were created by billions of organisms that were washed together by the mass destruction of the worldwide flood, completely buried, and rapidly fossilized.[43]
The resulting "super-cold snow" fell near the poles, burying the mammoths standing up.[41] Ice on the North and South pole cracked the crust of the earth releasing the fountains of the deep, which in turn caused certain ice age effects, namely the glacier effects. This made the earth "wobble around" and collapsed the vapor canopy that protected it.
During the first few months of the flood, the dead animals and plants were buried, and became oil and coal, respectively. The last few months of the flood included geological instability, when the plates shifted. This period saw the formation of both ocean basins and mountain ranges and the resulting water run-off caused incredible erosion – Hovind states that the Grand Canyon was formed in a couple of weeks during this time.[44] After a few hundred years, the ice caps slowly melted back retreating to their current size and the ocean levels increased, creating the continental shelves. The deeper oceans absorbed much of the carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere and thus allowed greater amounts of radiation to reach the earth's surface. As a result, human lifespans were shortened considerably in the days of Peleg.
You have to be completely blind to believe the things that man says. I believe in God. I also believe God gave me a brain to use, not to follow ignorant people like sheep.
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I love the "Mr Hovind theory", he plays it fast and loose with the word theory from that start, and that really is all you need to know.
There's literally dozens of points where known laws of physics falsify his "theory" straight away. I've already covered the Ice shield, which I could talk about forever, just discrediting every aspect of it. His understanding of physics is just awful, he doesn't even fact check to see if he's correct.
But it's things like saying the grand canyon formed in weeks. that's actually physically impossible. When flood waters cut through ground they would go in a straight line. Why? Because of the amounts of pressure and the high speeds. If the grand canyon had been formed in weeks by flood waters it would have to be perfectly straight, and that's basic hydrogeology.
Rivers and canyons don't do this. There aren't really any examples of a perfectly straight river, there are no examples of a perfectly straight canyon. Why? because these things took a long time to form under low pressure. So differing rock density and many other factors come into play and force the river to meander.
Yet the grand canyon is anything but straight, it meanders quite a lot. Have a look...

That is not a few weeks of fast high pressure erosion... That is many years of slow erosion from the Colorado river.
If the grand canyon was formed by high pressure, high speed flood water, then why does it meander so much? Like this...

It's physically impossible. I don't know how people could lap this up after reading about the grand canyon being formed by Noah's flood. At that point I would just be like "Ok, this guys just talking crap".
There are dozens of things like this that Mr Hovind has said which just baffle me more than anything.