Hi Russ,

I disagree with Mr Hovind's proposal that there was a world wide flood.

He seems to base his conjecture on the fossil find of these mammoths. But I fail to see how a local conglomeration of fossils supports a world wide flood any more than is supports a local flood.

If I were to use the same logic then I could say that there was a world wide volcanic eruption because of the fossils buried in volcanic ash in Liaoning, China.

From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050522202457.htm

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The Liaoning Fossil Beds in China

Consisting of layers of volcanic and sedimentary rock, the Yixian Formation in China's Liaoning Province has yielded an enormous variety of fossil fish, birds, insects, reptiles, shrimp, flowers, mammals, and dinosaurs dating back to the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods-more than 128 million years ago. At that time, the region was dotted with freshwater lakes, streams, rivers, and volcanoes. Volcanic explosions rained fine ash into the lakes, and animals that died or fell into the water were quickly buried in the fine-grained sediment at the bottom. Because they were buried so quickly, with so little oxygen available to promote decay, the fossil animals found in the Yixian Formation have delicate features almost impossibly preserved from feathers and fish scales to patterns on insect wings. Other deposits, like the one that produced Mei long, were formed by streams or rivers. Soft tissues like feathers are preserved, and the specimens are found in three dimensions

The point is not if I believe the Noah Flood occurred but, rather, if the evidence you provided supports that flood more than a local flood. I can't see how it does. How is the fossil find more supportive of a world-wide flood more than it being supportive of the Waco River overflowing its banks in spring?

Maybe I missed something in the article that you could point out.

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