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To: Solon who wrote (18545)	12/18/2011 7:01:10 AM
From: 2MAR$	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser ~ Socrates

To: Solon who wrote (18545)	12/18/2011 7:13:12 AM
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Dishonest & Lying Creationists off YouTube causing a stir Young Creationist expert Eric Hovind at work here is just not getting rave reviews over on YouTube , this troll & troll piece with the totally misleading header to attract eyeballs just inflaming people , they don't seem to care about anything that resembles truth with indepth research of an entire year took this one maroon to know that youtube.com "the Universe is really Big so a Big God exists" "You wouldn't be able to know anything , without God " " every argument against God assumes God so God exists" and you'll love the best for last when these two idiots posing the argument " that Atheists have to rely upon something had come from nothing , how stupid are they ??" But wait wasn't this the very heart of Willy Craig's argument of mind without moving parts creating everything out of nothing ....guess these dum dums don't compare notes or even read the the bible either which poses a God in Genesis creating everything out of nothing ? What maroons ....

To: Solon who wrote (18545)	12/18/2011 1:01:14 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

It gets even better , this evangelical Eric Hovind just following in the foot steps of his father , Kent Hovind , a Florida young earth Creationist now serving a ten-year prison sentence after being convicted of 58 federal counts, including 12 tax offenses, one count of obstructing federal agents. en.wikipedia.org They started Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensecola FL, making up to $2mil /yr of course getting their "Creation Science " degrees thru unacreditted correspondence schools , lol.... here's some of the "theories" he hatched, just no end to this used car salesman charlatanism , but selling "God & Creationism " is better $$$ than selling used cars & sandy lots in Florida *Dinosaur Adventure Land* In 2001, Hovind started Dinosaur Adventure Land (DAL), a young Earth creationist theme park located behind Hovind's home in Pensacola, Florida. The park depicts humans and dinosaurs co-existing in the last 4,000–6,000 years and also contains a depiction of the Loch Ness monster. [25] Dinosaurs are central to Hovind's website and creation advocacy because "the creation world view says dinosaurs have always lived with man and there might still be a few alive today." [26] The "Hovind Creation Theory" Hovind summarizes his version of the young Earth creation story in the self-titled "Hovind Theory" taken from a variety of creationist sources. [41] [42] The "Hovind Theory" was presented at Hovind lectures and in his work "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution". [42] Hovind explained the Biblical account of Noah as follows: Noah's family and two of every " kind" of animal (including young dinosaurs) [43] 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, buried, and fossilized. [44] The resulting "super-cold snow" fell near the poles, burying the mammoths standing up. [42] Ice on the North and South Poles 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. [45] 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. The level of support for evolution is essentially universal within the scientific community and academia, [46] while support for creationism is minimal among scientists in general, and virtually nonexistent among those in the relevant fields: Biology, Paleontology, Geology, etc. [47] About the Hovind theory in particular: Karen Bartelt, a chemist, commented that Hovind's "message appeals to those who are unaware that his 'evidence' is without merit." [48] Furthermore, the plausibility of the Hovind Theory has been criticized by both scientists and other young Earth creationists. [49] [50] [51] Hovind's ideas have been published in the controversial Chick Tracts, comic strips intended to convert people to fundamentalist Christianity. [52] Hovind's $250,000 offer According to Hovind's website, he has offered $10,000 since 1990 to those who can "prove the theory of evolution." [53] He has since raised the amount of the reward to $250,000. [54]