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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Everything in the crap that creationist cults put out seems to revolve
around the bizarre and unfounded notion that there was at one time a
world-wide global flood. These cultists seem to divide everything that
crosses their unfortunate minds into what came "before the flood"
and what came "after the flood."
One of the many endless fatal flaws to creationists' beliefs is the lack
of water for such a "flood of ignorance." Where did the water
come from? Where did the water go? Like inbecils some cultists open up
their paper idols and start looking for "explanations" though
it's amusing to note that some nutters have placed the Earth in orbit around
Venus to explain the "flood."
Some cultists will contrive an elaborate story about some construct they
call a "vapor canopy" or "water canopy" which contained
all the water needed for the "flood of ignorance? suspended some how
aound the Earth. The quantities needed couldn't be suspended, of course,
and in any event no stars would be visible through such clouds and there
are certainly stars mentioned in the classical Christanic mythologies.
With that in mind, let's examine "The greenhouse effect and pre-flood
days."
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The propaganda piece proceeds to describe in a disjointed way what the
general concerns were about a rise in greenhouse gases accumulating in
the atmosphere. The ICR cult explains that policy chances have taken
place which seeks to limit the use and release of such gases. We then
get a lengthy review of climate modeling. Okay, what else? When do
we get to the Satanic conspiracy? Ah, here we are...
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Short answer: No. It's not possible. The fact that there's no evidence
for a "flood of ignorance" puts "paid" to the idiot notion. The fact
that the "water canopy" notion was a contrived to try to explain where
the water supposedly came from is based upon the idiot notion that there
was a flood in the first place.
If one wants to play pretend, though, the cult is left with another
fatal problem: Where did the water go? Woops!
Amusingly we eventually read:
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Yeah, that's just what America needs.
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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.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, the alleged "Greenhouse
Effect" captured the interest of news magazines, radio,
and television programs.
Could it be that during the pre-flood time, not only
was there a water-vapor canopy and a tropical environment,
there also were significantly increased carbon dioxide
levels than what is contained in the earth's atmosphere
today?...
It seems that today's environmental policy-makers could
learn a great lesson from pre-Flood history as depicted
in the Bible.
Creationist propaganda is already self-debunking." --
Fredric L. Rice
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