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Post by Jesse Morrell on Aug 28, 2005 12:44:56 GMT -5
Be sure to check out www.drdino.com . Dr. Kent Hovind has some great videos and other resources on creationism.
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Post by Buff on Mar 14, 2006 5:40:30 GMT -5
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Post by Buff on Mar 14, 2006 5:42:41 GMT -5
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Post by larryflint4prez on Jun 26, 2006 0:11:42 GMT -5
;D Hovind is a sideshow carnie, pure and simple. I was a graduate teaching assistant in a biology department in a smallish state school back in 2001 when Hovind's roadshow came through. On the day of his "lecture", a local campus christian group posted some flyers for the show. I decided to attend and some of the biology faculty showed up too, out of morbid curiosity. Hovind starts the show by announcing that he had "challenged" our faculty to produce a debate opponent, but we must have been too scared. In fact, he had not contacted our department at all. His "arguements" against evolution were fantastically ignorant and he went out of his way to make unnecessary bigoted slurs against Catholics and others. He had even brought in his own cheering section from the local wingnut churches to "stack" the audience, as it were. He d@mn near started a riot. I was personally enraged by his ignorance and deceit. I waited a good twenty minutes for the crowd to clear after the show, hoping to cave his teeth in, but he kept a small entourage with him at all times. None of it made any sense until after the show when I saw his merchandise table. He easily made $5,000 in merch that night, selling videos, audio tapes, t-shirts and what-have-you to the sheeple. I didn't put the picture together until after I cooled off, but Hovind is an absolute charlaton. His schtick is 100% ripped off from P.T. Barnum and other historical carnies. I wouldn't be surprised if he took a trick or two out of Anton LaVey's writings either. If Michael Behe represents the best face of Creation/Intelligent Design, then Hovind represents its ugliest and most ridiculous side.
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Post by cervyy on Jun 26, 2006 0:27:32 GMT -5
Sheeple!! That is my NEW fave word!!
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Post by biblethumper on Jun 26, 2006 7:54:47 GMT -5
Larry, could you PM me the info, as in univerity, phone # etc etc?
I'd like to verify your information immediately on Hovind "never contacting your department" etc etc
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Post by larryflint4prez on Jun 26, 2006 10:13:01 GMT -5
So, you would like me to give you personal information that would establish my identity? Sure. Want my SSN and PIN codes too? No, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Why would I lie about this? When Hovind came through my university I was a teaching assistant in the biology department, so I had a faculty mailbox. Any contact he sent to the department would have reached me too. During the show I was sitting within earshot of two faculty members, both of whom confirmed that no contact was made. If my word isn't good enough for you, tough. There is plenty of dirt on Hovind all over the web. Why don't you go to your local college library and request a copy of Hovind's "250 page doctoral thesis"? Have you ever heard about Hovind's invitation to debate Dave Thomas of New Mexicans for Science and Reason? Or what about his invitation to debate Ian Wood? Why is Hovind unwilling to debate anyone in print? Perhaps it has something to do with his stage tactics? What about the requirements of $250,000 challenge? Does Hovind even have the money to pay such a challenge after his 1996 bankruptcy? But, hey, if you people want to use the resources of this wingnut, so be it. Hovind is a laughing stock. If you want to aim your ministry at the Jerry Springer crowd, then Hovind's materials are just the thing.
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Post by biblethumper on Jun 26, 2006 11:40:41 GMT -5
Not YOUR information; just the name of the department director, to verify that a challenge was claimed by Hovind yet that no one actually received the challenege.
Call someone down then verify it or don't say it.
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Post by rev2212 on Aug 24, 2006 1:58:49 GMT -5
sounds like a fake to me.........
well back to the whole liars drawing board for him.....
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Post by robdog on Jun 13, 2007 2:27:08 GMT -5
Hmmm...drdino.com wasn't loading up for me...I wonder what the deal is...
Could just be a server update or something, we shall see...
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Post by Rhema Seeker (Guy) on Jun 13, 2007 6:18:57 GMT -5
Hmmm...drdino.com wasn't loading up for me...I wonder what the deal is... Could just be a server update or something, we shall see... I went to his site just a couple days ago, so it may just be that. I know that while Kent is away for a time, his son is taking up his lectures.
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