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Old earthers like you have about sixty theories of the Ice Age. Oard is an expert on the subject, but you have put forth no old earther expert. Oard has silenced a lot of them after forty years of research. Darwin and deep time have massive scientific problems.

 

Yes, I cited one guy, Oard, but you cited no one. Young Earth Creationism is a scientific endeavor, and no old earther has a better theory on the Ice Age. As for old earth, we know that the Enlightenment borrowed from the Greeks and Hindus and postulated deep time which cannot be proven by science. If you live in the East, why not visit the Creation Museum? They have research staff who are PhD. They will tell you that stars don't go north and south.

As for the Grand Canyon, it you have a couple of great lakes left from the Ice Age and they break their basins and race to the sea, a canyon will form rapidly. I did a thread here on the Lake Missoula Flood, which after fifty years of denial, the old earthers admitted happened.

 

I think that you have an intelligent perspective. I am elderly so I don't get as much done as I think about doing. I tell people God's richest blessings to you and yours--(I think that salvation is the richest blessing so I say that to non-Christians.)

 

The fossils are the graveyard of the Genesis Flood when God destroyed all land life not on the Ark. It was a violent flood that completely changed the surface of the earth so that the old world that Noah knew was totally gone forever. The reason that we find fossils is to remind us of what God did. The folded layers of fossils that you were talking about earlier show that the layers were bent while they were fresh because if they had solidified they would have been broken.

The Lake Missoula Flood runs from Montana to the Pacific Ocean so it altered a vast landscape. It was discovered by an old earther as a flood but he was ostracized by the scientific community of the day until photos were taken from airplanes to prove him right. It was an end of the Ice Age event just like several other major floods worldwide.

We have no chain of custody to establish that the speed of light has been constant scientifically.

 

There you go again. Two of every sort or kind, but you change it to species and go off on a fantasy.

 

An explanation of how many animals were aboard the Ark, which was 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high, with tree decks.

 

Of course, it doesn't mean species. For example, all dogs have a common dog ancestor, even poodles.

"Species has a modern meaning that does not comply with the meaning of the Hebrew in Genesis as was pointed out in the video where Creation Museum discusses how many animals were on the Ark, and I have already given the dimensions of the Ark based upon the royal cubit, Scripture having listed how many cubits in length and width and height of the Ark.

All old earthers seems to insist that dinosaurs, made on Day 6, were somehow extinct by the time of the Genesis Flood 4300 years ago. I think that I have already listed a discussion of that above. It is true that many animals came off the Ark and did not last long for one reason or another. The earth was greatly changed and even man was allowed to eat meat after the Genesis Flood because with the breakup of the land apparently the vegetarian life was harder to sustain.

This great animal, called “behemoth,” is described as “the chief of the ways of God,” perhaps the biggest land animal God had created. Impressively, he moved his tail like a cedar tree! Although some Bible commentaries say this may have been an elephant or hippopotamus, the description actually fits that of a dinosaur like Brachiosaurus. Elephants and hippos certainly do not have tails like cedar trees!


Actually, very few animals are singled out in the Bible for such a detailed description. Contrary to what many may think, what we know now as dinosaurs get more mention in the Scriptures than most animals! So dinosaurs—all the different kinds—must have lived alongside of people after the Flood.

Are Dinosaurs Mentioned in Ancient Literature?
Interestingly, the word “dragon” is used a number of times in the Old Testament. In most instances, the word dinosaur could substitute for dragon and it would fit very nicely. Creation scientists believe that dinosaurs were called dragons before the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800s. We would not expect to find the word dinosaur in Bibles like the Authorized Version (1611), as it was translated well before the word dinosaur was ever used.

Also, there are many very old history books in various libraries around the world that have detailed records of dragons and their encounters with people. Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly for creationists), many of these descriptions of dragons fit with how modern scientists would describe dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus. Unfortunately, this evidence is not considered valid by evolutionists. Why? Only because their belief is that man and dinosaurs did not live at the same time!

However, the more we research the historical literature, the more we realize there is overwhelming evidence that dragons were real beasts, much like our modern reconstructions of dinosaurs, and that their existence has been recorded by many different people, even just hundreds of years ago."

Dinosaurs and the Bible

 

The Woolly Mammoth may have been a type of elephant. The Genesis Flood created a great deal of heat for various reasons. That caused evaporation. Meanwhile, volcanic activity was widespread and huge. As the atmosphere was filled with dust, the cooling caused snow storms from all of the moisture in the air. If the summers were cooler and the winters were just the same or cooler, snow and ice could accumulate. Thus began the Ice Age. With ice covering thirty percent of earth, the oceans were lowered and it made it easy for animals and people to disperse throughout the earth. We know from the Grand Canyon in Arizona, that the sediment from the flood is very deep. The Great Unconformity, on top of which the Genesis Flood sediments were deposited, was photographed in the recent movie Is Genesis History? I will link it below. So the Woolly Mammoth got into Siberia. The Ice Age lasted about seven hundred years. With no or few natural enemies, as Oard pointed out, they could multiply rapidly. And no, there was no death before Adam sinned according to Genesis, so the correct time to place the death of the Woolly Mammoth is in the Ice Age after the Genesis Flood. Then as the ice receded, as Oard says, they sank into the ground and the area changed to perma-frost. Contrary to what you posted earlier, there meat is decayed to some extent and flies have laid eggs in the flesh, which can be shown by microscopic examination. Everything was created in six days. All that we have left from the time of Adam to Noah is what survived with Noah and his family, and some of that has since been lost. With Adam's sin all of creation became cursed, and that curse extended to animals also. Noah is a prophet.

Genesis 5:29 (KJV) And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

 

So, you don't think that the Woolly Mammoth was a type of elephant? So, would you say that the poodle is a type of dog? (Well that one might be beyond debate one way or another.) How can you say that one or another of an animal might have survived for one reason or another? There are lots of kinds that died out after Noah's Flood, apparently so not every animal from Adam's day survived after Noah's Flood. We just don't know how many died out after Adam because everything was destroyed by the Genesis Flood and the seven continents were formed by it.

As the movie Is Genesis History? points out, the sedimentary layers from the flood are five thousand feet high in the Grand Canyon; the fossil layers are the graveyard of the animal life killed in the Flood when only life on the Ark survived.

There was no death before Adam sinned, which probably was shortly after the Creation of the world. That fact of no death applied to the animals also.

You seem to think that the Young Earth Creationist movement is more of a minority than it is and that it revolves around Ken Ham, who is a leader but Ken Ham would be the first to pay tribute to Dr. John Whitcomb, who still is alive here in Indianapolis and played a significant role in the dedication of the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. Also, Ken Ham worked for Dr. Henry Morris at his Institute for Creation Research and he worked with Creation Ministries International. However, it is true that Answers in Genesis is the largest apologetics ministry in the world at this time (not counting denominations) and I am guessing that the investment in Kentucky of the Creation Museum, the Ark Encounter, and the offices of AiG represent two hundred million dollars. Ken Ham said that forty thousand families donated to the Ark Encounter and several million people have visited Kentucky in the last ten years. However, the idea of the young earth goes back to the church fathers and was believed until the Enlightenment, roughly the eighteenth century, and died out in the church about the time of the Civil War and was picked up again by Morris and Whitcomb about 1961. So my hero is Dr. Whitcomb, who fought in the battle of the Bulge and taught here in Indiana, having been educated at Princeton University.

But maybe you would be interesting in today's news from the Creation Museum about an upgrade: