On 7/19/2010 11:04 AM, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
>>> the dinosaurs "must" have all drowned in a giant flood
>>
>> Not if you believe Kent Hovind, who claims that dinosarus didn't go
>> extint
>> at all, but there are specimens alive even today (and no, he's not
>> talking
>> about birds, but actual cretaceous period dinosaurs). His arguments are,
>> basically a combination of cryptozoology, taking known hoaxes at face
>> value,
>> as well as an outright conspiracy theory (about scientists ignoring and
>> destroying evidence because dinosaurs being alive would, according to
>> Hovind,
>> somehow discredit evolution, even though he doesn't explain why).
>
> To be fair, AFAIK even most young-earth creationists think that Kent
> Hovind is a bit of a nut and people shouldn't pay much attention to him.
>
>
>> Btw, does someone know how Young Earth creationists explain what killed
>> all the trilobites?
>>
>
> I don't think there's really a standard and excepted explanation for
> this, but the most common seems to be that the flood resulted not just
> in water, but also in a great deal of ocean volcanic activity, as
> perhaps hinted to in the line:
>
> "on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth"
>
> Thus the extinction is attributed to massive water turbulence, changes
> in temperature, change in water salinity, etc. I believe the thought is
> that some sea creatures (like fish and whales) were able to survive
> through this while others weren't.
>
> It's also worth noting that in this particular case there isn't an
> accepted scientific (as in real scientific, not creation-scientific)
> explanation as to why trilobites went extinct either, so it's probably
> not the best example of a question to stump creationists on.
Well, other than that there are "some" very similar species, Limpets, 
around that are descendants, and it doesn't explain why far more 
fragile, and less armored snails, sponges, and sea slugs survived 
instead. lol

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