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There are some creationists who deny evolution, say that Noah only needed distinct 'kinds' on the Ark... and then those 'kinds' diversified into everything we have today in I guess a few thousand years.
They basically do not believe in evolution and also posit what is functionally a Cambrian explosion that happens something like 10000 times more quickly.
Then there's the problem of... what would they eat? All the plants are dead. There are only 2 (or 7 pairs at max) of each 'kind' of predator and herbivore... ???
Then there's the heat problem. Apparently sometime in the late 80s or early 90s some scientists got bored and figured out how much water you would actually need to cover the entire earth such that no mountains are above water...
... and what you end up with is so much water, so much energy from it falling to Earth, that basically Earth becomes a multi thousand degree sauna, steam cooking everything.
If they don't believe in evolution, what makes you think they believe in physics? God can just magically keep the animals from starving and keep the Earth from boiling
There are a number of creationists that have and still come up with fallacious psuedo science of many different kinds to explain how it all actually makes sense ... if half of known science is wrong for reasons, which they insist they can prove.
Yes, many of them resort to basically magic, but there are a lot of well funded apologists who attempt to be taken seriously ot present an argument and vocabulary that seems erudite to ... well, its funny, most of them will admit that they just say things to help reassure those who already believe that their beliefs are justified... even though they will often get into debates with various science educators, as they seemingly believe their own bs is actually legitimate.