Carl Baugh

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Glen:

I've been reading with interest your posts regarding the NBC pseudoscience
documentary and related ideas.  I've also visted your website (great job!).
In an amazing coincidence (or was it?!) I received this week, from a
well-meaning but woefully misguided in-law, some vidoetapes from the
Kenneth Copeland Ministries entitled "Understanding The Creation".  It is a
series of 10 telecasts from Copeland's TV show that feature Baugh
expounding at length on his whole Creation Story/Model with Copeland.
These tapes are a riot!  Baugh spends most of his time explaining his
"pre-Flood Earth" model that features:

1) a 10-mile high spherical "firmament" that is composed of water and
sheets of "crystallized" metallic hydrogen
2) 2X post-Flood atmospheric pressure and 3X pO2
3) an "internal nuclear reactor"
4) enhanced electromagnetic effects (which have some really interesting
secondary effects including increased brain power/cellular communication
and direction/orientation in humans and the ability to hear electromagnetic
"music" from the stars)
5) other really wacky stuff

The video features some impressive computer animation sequences.  The best
one shows a dove, representing the Holy Spirit, creating the earth's
magnetic field!  Copleland himself acts strangely intranced through the
whole series, and spends most of his time actually hugging and caressing
Baugh's 3D cutaway model of the  "pre-Flood" Earth.

Only the in last of the 10 epsiodes does Baugh discuss the Paluxy tracks
and the fossil "finger". He produces some plaster casts of the tracks and
the actual "finger" (which has now been sectioned in to 3 pieces; still
looks like a concretion inside). However, in other episodes, he does touch
on some other paleontological "evidence".  The most memorable is a
description of a "Cretaceous" "Lepidodendron" truck that pierces several
strata.  Even though the description is evocative, he follows it with a
seemingly unrelated discussion of the corelation of Cretaceous rocks from
Texas to the UK and northern Europe.  Significant time is spent on his
search for Noah's ark and his current excavation of a Stegosaurus skeleton.
His discussions of dinosaur physiology are also interesting.  All in all,
the tapes are very enlightening.  In fact, the tapes could be the basis for
a very entertaining drinking game.  Every time Baugh says, "Now watch
this....!", he is about to come out with a real whopper, and downing a brew
at the time could make it easier to understand!

If you haven't seen these tapes yet, I'd be happy to let you borrow them.

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Tim Demko       demkot@lamar.ColoState.EDU
Postdoctoral Fellow
Morrison Research Initiative
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