He did said he had an answer for the heat problem. YEC or not, an answer is an answer.
An answer he says he has discarded. His answer was that physical constants were different back in the past such that no ill effects were noted when the speed of light was higher than now and the rate of radioactive decay was sped up when compared to today's rates.
Further even when he gave such replies, he never fleshed them out into a complete picture.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass