Back on topic. For those who have watched this short video, does Brown's theory seem at all plausible to you?

Back on topic. For those who have watched this short video, does Brown's theory seem at all plausible to you?

Paste this url in your browser, and watch the 10 minute PhD Walt Brown's hydroplate theory of the Genesis flood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD9ZGt9UA-U
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Oh, and yes, JR, I am aware that there is a scientific process. But I am also aware that there are scientists today that are dead set against anything faith based, that infers the existence of a God. Scientists are human and have their biases.

Let those who have ears to hear, and eyes to see, hear and see.

I see you're back again ..... posting your nonsense.

Is it because they changed your medication dosage again?

Peace

No, is because he wants to compete with Lud for the De-brained of the Year Award.

Yes, there have been so many wonderful contributions through science that have vastly improved our lives on this blue marble. Science has done good things.

But the same science that saves, also destroys us. Just one example: high tech methods of strip mining for coal. China is using 1/3 of all coal burned in the world, and we see the results.

Science brings results we can test and see. Is that as far as the human heart wants to go?

Anyone that believes in this BS ..... is batshit crazy.

Peace

You don't want to believe because you think the world is getting better? Good luck with that.

It is written that Noah wasn't just building the Ark for all those years. For all those years he had been pleading with people, preaching repentance. And not a single person came. Maybe kids wanted to, but were held back by their parents.

Those kids that had not yet reached the age of accountability may not be eternally lost.

Seems from our judicial system today, it is what? 12 or 14? But I truly feel that with God, He doesn't look at age, but what a child has experienced. Some of us have not had the best of upbringings.

what does upbringing have to do with accountability? are people with poor upbringing not accountable for their behavior?

Courts, as well a juries in criminal matters, take into account what happened in the childhood of an offender.

So does God.

I would site a scripture but I remember you do not like that.

What about that time in Leviticus 10 where Yahweh personally zapped two of Aaron's sons for getting the details of an incense burning ceremony wrong? He wasn't very understanding of errant youth on that occasion.

Nadab and Abihu

Now Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his censer, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered unholy fire before the Lord, such as he had not commanded them. 2 And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said,

‘Through those who are near me
       I will show myself holy,
and before all the people
       I will be glorified.’”

And Aaron was silent.

                              

If you were this holy God, Who has been described as a consuming fire, what would you have done? Just let them do as they please? Look at it from God's point of view, as He seeks to make a people He could call His own.

Aside from religious loons getting their delusions from psychological disorders, cognitive distortions, and psychosis turn to other uneducated buffoons like Kent Hovind and Ron Wyatt.

Its no surprise the hyper-religious have lower IQs than everyone else.

Kent Hovind is not uneducated. He holds a master degree, taught high school science for 15 years, who now spends his time lecturing.

Wiki entry on Hovind's "education":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind#Education

Eh? What are you talking about?

I am a Christian and my IQ has been tested to be quite high. So, your studies from the experts you believe, are not true, at least in my case, anyway.

But attempting to put people beneath you (as you are a trying to here), has always been a sign of desperation. What are you desperate about?

Academia, Clarence, can today, most often result in atheism, for that is what is taught in most universities.

Atheism, no matter how you spell it, is a religion/ belief system. It takes just as much faith to be an atheist, as to be a Christian. Maybe even more.

I attended a Christian college, graduating in 1981, and that school was accredited. So I suspect your claiming the schools Hovind attended being unaccredited may be suspect.

Midwestern Baptist College is not accredited by any accreditation body recognized by its country. According to the US Department of Education, unaccredited degrees and credits might not be acceptable to employers or other institutions, and use of degree titles may be restricted or illegal in some jurisdictions.[4]

Patriot Bible University (as of October 2008) is accredited by the Accrediting Commission International. This accreditation is quality non-governmental Christian accreditation, that recognizes high standards of Biblical and academic training.

Accrediting Commission International (ACI), also known as Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, possibly associated with International Accrediting Commission (IAC), also known as International Accrediting Commission for Schools, Colleges and Theological Seminaries,[2][3] is an unrecognized educational accreditation corporation in the United States.[4] It primarily accredits religious schools, including seminaries and Bible colleges, and also offers accreditation to non-U.S. schools that offer business education programs.[4] John F. Scheel is president.[1]

List of Fake College Degree Accreditation Agencies

Here is the official Get Educated list of 40+ fake college accreditation agencies that claim to oversee a variety of online college and university degree programs.

Most of these agencies "accredit" diploma mills or degree mills.

Consumers Beware: NONE of these accrediting agencies are recognized as college accreditors in the U.S. by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation or the U.S. Department of Education. As such, colleges claiming “accreditation” by these agencies are not accepted as valid providers of online degrees and should be approached with great caution if college credibility is important to you.

Remember, most diploma mills and degree mills are accredited—but by fake or phony agencies that the degree mills themselves own and operate!

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What you mean is that most universities teach critical inquiry and not a religiously biased worldview, like the unaccredited Christian institutions that Kent Hovind attended, and you disapprove of this. Tough. I think if there is a God, he would have intended humans to make full use of their noggins.

Or as Galileo said:

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.


Atheism is a lack of belief, or a denial of the existence of deities. Disbelief in deities does not require faith. As Richard Dawkins said:

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

My opinion is that people probably inherit a belief in God/s from their parents and don't question the idea much. It just becomes natural for them and is believed probably for emotional reasons. As you stated earlier though, people who are exposed to higher education and critical inquiry are probably more likely to become non-religious.


I did a bit of Googling about Hovind's education at Midwestern Baptist College and Patriot Bible University and came up with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_Baptist_College

I checked this site and drew a blank.

http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx

I also drew a blank on that site for Patriot University in Colorado Springs. The university's website states:

http://www.patriotuniversity.com/PatriotUniversity.com.html

Wikipedia again:


A non Wiki site here lists Accrediting Commission International (ACI), as unrecognized and states:

http://www.geteducated.com/college-degree-mills/204-fake-agencies-for-college-accreditation

It is evident that there's a related problem with all the sources you use on this thread to support a biblical literalist view of Noah's Flood. Walt Brown has a flood friendly theory about geology but isn't a trained geologist. Ron Wyatt claims to have discovered Noah's Ark and various other biblical sites but isn't a qualified archaeologist. Kent Hovind expounds on palaeontological matters but has no qualification of any kind in the field. His only qualifications are in theology and are from unaccredited institutions. There's a pattern here in your preference for dubious and unqualified sources of information to support a biblical literalist perspective. I recall from previous discussions that you have an antipathy towards critical study of the Bible as literature, which you dismiss as "higher criticism".

I'd suggest you should use your high IQ to consider other perspectives, such as the one presented here by Christine Hayes, who is a genuine professor of Religious Studies at Yale University.

In this lecture, Professor Hayes compares the biblical Flood story with The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic is an ancient Mesopotamian poem that describes a global flood and contains some close parallels to the Genesis story. As Prof Hayes outlines, the first complete version of the story exists on stone tablets dated at 700 BCE, but there are earlier dated tablet fragments dated at 1800 BCE. Compare this to the date of circa 500 BCE when Genesis was estimated to have been written and make your own mind up. My opinion is that the stories are related and may have been inspired by ancient local flooding of Mesopotamian plains that bordered the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.



                                           http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145/lecture-4

I let such comments roll off as water from a duck's back. You're not insulting me, but the Creator God I put my confidence and trust in.

There is a day of God's wrath quickly approaching, and most all people know this subconsciously, but they have repressed the reality of it. All we need do is look around and see how quickly folk seem headlong into an abyss.

But there is a means of escape from God's wrath, that He has provided through One who took upon himself the wrath that should have been ours. If we reject this free gift, how shall we escape?

We are well into the eleventh hour now, and our lives are so fragile. We never know what a day will bring. We are like wisps of smoke, here, and then gone.

Eternal life in unimaginable glory and splendor may be ours, if only we will accept that Free Gift

Posts like this one show that you need to consult with a licensed mental health professional.