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To: average joe who wrote (22024)	3/5/2012 6:41:42 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I hope he is enjoying his stretch in prison. In the meantime, he did use his correspondence degree to invent this wonderful theory so let him be heard--briefly! LOL! ____________________________ Hovind explained the Biblical account of Noah as follows: Noah's family and two of every " kind" of animal (including young dinosaurs) [46] 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. [47] The resulting "super-cold snow" fell near the poles, burying the mammoths standing up. [45] 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. [48] 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, [49] while support for creationism is minimal among scientists in general, and virtually nonexistent among those in the relevant fields: Biology, Paleontology, Geology, etc. [50] 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." [51] Furthermore, the plausibility of the Hovind Theory has been criticized by both scientists and other young Earth creationists. [52] [53] [54] Hovind's ideas have been published in the controversial Chick Tracts, comic strips intended to convert people to fundamentalist Christianity. [55]