The notoriously bizarre Institute for Creation Research (sic) cult
routinely publishes equally bizarre religious notions which they wish to
pretend are some how scientific. This text file takes some of the cult's
own bizarre publications and takes a look at them in extract to show just
how nutty (verging on the insane) these "Modern Day Flat Earth
Society" nuts actually are.
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One of the endless major problems that creationists must face on a
daily basis is the overwhelming evidence that the Earth is in fact
exactly what it appears to be; that the Earth is around 15 billion
years old, that no gods or goddesses are in evidence, that science
doesn't care whether you believe in facts or whether you disbelieve.
Creationists live on a daily basis under a cloud of perpetual denial
of what their own senses and what their own reason tells them. One
of the artifacts that arises in the brain of nuts in general --
not just creationists -- is a dysharmonic trainwreck known as
"cognitive disonance." It results from trying to avoid truths
that can't be ignored, and trying to believe multiply-inconsistant things.
Cognitive disonance is routinely exhibited in e-mail that The
Skeptic Tank receives and I have found that to address the issues
brought up by the nut makes the mental dysfunction that's being
exhibited much, much worse.
Any introduction of a new truth that can't be rationally denied gets
incorporated into the brain of the nut which treats the truth as
a foreign body which must be ejected. Rather like the body's
ejection system causing the mucus to run, nuts exhibit an
almost snot-like ejection of reason, thought, and intelligence the
more one attempts to reason with them.
Creationists are bad; so-called "young Earth creationists" are
even worse, if one can imagine such a thing. Everything they observe
directly contradicts their religion-motivated notions and even
something as simple as the gradual accumulation of snow to form
compacted ice becomes a conspiracy that must be explained-away at
all cost.
Let's take a look:
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The non-existant problem only occurs when one denies the fact
that the Earth is some 5 billion years old and that the universe
as a whole is about 15 billion years old. People who are still
allowed to think have no problem explaining how snow accumulates
over long period of time into ice. Throw a money wrench into
te brain by claiming the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and
the brain is faced with a conflict.
To employ a pun, a meltdown is common.
The problem creationists face is that there's too much ice on the
poles and, in this propaganda piece, Greenland becomes a problem
that must be explained some how without admitting to what their
own senses are telling them.
How does the ICR cult explain ice cores that prove the Earth is at
least a quarter of a million years old? Let's go see!
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Oh, oh. We missed something. What's this "flood" this guy is
talking about? There doesn't seem to be any geological record of
any such "flood" ever occuring which would some how cause a rain
heavy enough and long enough to form two miles of ice in various
places on Earth in 10,000 years. Hell, the latent heat being
released by such a rain would incinerate every living thing on
Earth.
Some how the Chinese and the Egyptions managed to survive this amazing
"flood" thing -- and they didn't even notice it, apparently,
since nobody but the Summerians ever told the myth as produced in
the contemporary Christanic mythologies.
Are you unhappy with a "world wide global flood"
"explanation" for why these pesky ice cores are calling these
creationists liars? Never fear! "Creation science" to the
rescue!
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"Creationist research." Translation: He came up with another
wopper followers are expected to swallow.
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What flood? The guy starts out trying to explain why there's too
much ice which negates utterly the bizarre notion that the age of
the Earth is some 10,000 years, then he tosses in some unevidenced
"flood."
The nut then goes on to describe the truth, at least showing
that he or she is aware that it's out there. Then the nut
rejects the truth outright without a backwards glance:
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It's bizarre that the ICR cult knows what the facts of the matter
are and yet rejects them outright because they're locked into the
bizarre notion that the Earth is some 10,000 years old or less.
One can't excuse such beliefs by claiming they didn't don't know
and don't have access to the scientific facts of the matter. The
admission that the cult is aware of the scientific models for
the Earth's geologic history doen through billions of years means
their blatant denial of the truth is inexcusable.
Glossed over is the fact that the geological redcord shows a
series of ice ages down through millions of years. Science shows
that the Earth is currently somewhere near the beginning of an
inter-glacial warming period. After some 100,000 years or so the
Earth's trend will start to express a cooling which will once
again result in another Ice Age.
Denial is stupid.
Any text written by the creationist cult which may be quoted within this
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"You can lie about ICR all you want." --
Jason Daniel Henderson
"Thank you for your permission however there's never any need
to.
Recent reports of ice-core drilling in Greenland have raised
anew the question for young-earth creationists -- How could
so much ice accumulate in polar regions in only a few thousand
years?
In a previous Impact article... I suggested that thick
ice sheets could be explained if high precipitation rates
occurred immediately following the Flood.
Since my earlier article, two major advances in creationist
research have led to greater confidence in the young earth
model of ice-sheet formation.
First, the suggestion by Oard... that the oceans may have
been warmer at the end of the Flood...
The young-earth, creationist view suggested by Figure I
is that the oceans were warmer at the end of the Flood
and cooled over the past 4,500 years to the temperature
we observe today. Only one "Ice Age" has occurred and
was, in fact, caused by the residual heat in the oceans
left over from the Flood...
Creationist propaganda is already self-debunking." --
Fredric L. Rice
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