You don’t have to search far to find some insane and tortuous creationist logic when creationists are trying to harmonize their bible with science. Two recent examples are Eric Hovind and Bryan Fischer. Go to the Friendly Atheist blog on Pathos.com and you’ll see these two yo-yo’s in all their glory.
First up, Bryan Fischer. He’s always good for some head-spinning explanations on how the Bible is always correct and how science is always wrong. His latest BS is how evolution is SO wrong and it’s because he has the proof in the Bible. His point is that, according to Scripture, death didn’t enter the world until good ole Adam ate the damn fruit. Then death, he claims, was everywhere - wow. Bryan says this “No sin, no death. Prior to Adam, there was no death. So evolution cannot possibly be true. It’s just a matter of theological fact”. It’s that simple, huh Bryan? So tell me, what about all the animals before Adam chomped on the apple? Did they live forever and then once Adam did his thing, they also suffered the death deal? What did they do? When did lions and sharks and the like developed a taste for fresh flesh? Another point, according to your precious Bible, Adam didn’t die in THAT DAY. He lived till he was 900 plus years old. So much for instant death.
But anyway the BS cake goes to Eric Hovind and his failed attempt to prove that the Noachian Flood carved out the Grand Canyon in about a year or so, not the millions and millions of years those stupid geologist keep claiming. He traveled to Pensacola, Florida after some heavy rain washed out some streets. He goes around with video camera in hand asking people, “What caused this, water or time.” Talk about priming people for the response you want! His point was that if this particular washout could occur quickly, then, of course, a massive amount of water COULD carve out the Grand Canyon in a short amount of time! Case closed he thinks. Except there is a big difference between washing out an area that is mainly sand and carving a canyon made of rock. Check any river that flows constantly with a large amount of water. Over a year or two you don’t see much change but come back in a couple of hundred years or a thousand years and you might see the river carving another course. If you try to fit the carving of the Grand canyon into a time frame of a year or two, you’ll have major problems. But that doesn’t faze Eric as long as his minions in the pews nod their heads in agreement. Science to Eric? Bah!
The good part in all this is as these idiots put up stuff like this, the more they demonstrate their ignorance about science. Keep up the good work guys!