"There's enormous evidence that man and dinosaurs have always lived together"

I know I've already talked about this... but now there is a target for my ire and ohmygod I am so pissed off.

Kent Hovind. You smarmy little zealot. You luddite little demagogue. You schlemiel.

Your lecture is called "100 Reasons Why Evolution is So Stupid". Well you know what, Kent? You're so stupid. In fact, your mom is so stupid. There, I said it.

2 Hours of Nonsense

I'll concede that you raise some interesting points. For example, I wonder how it is that not all celestial bodies rotate in the same direction. And I am somewhat curious about how the ages of strata in core samples are determined by scientists.

Okay, we've gotten the requisite "Your lecture isn't all crap" paragraph out of the way.

I'm not going to pick you apart point by point. Let's not kid ourselves, that's way below the level of this blog... and I've written posts about the etiquette of portajohn use. Instead, I will simply quote you.

"There's enormous evidence that man and dinosaurs have always lived together... Dinosaurs have always lived with man, they used to be called dragons and man killed most of 'em"

Wow. Just wow.


"There is no geologic column, and they know it. This fella says 'if the geologic column exists... unfortunately, no such column exists'. it doesn't exist!"

By the way, even as you quoted that textbook, you showed the original text on the screen. It said:
"If there were a column of sediments deposited continuously since the formation of the earth, the entire history of the planet could be reconstructed. Unfortunately, no such column exists. Where sediments are missing, a break in the sedimentary record occurs. Breaks result in gaps in the record that may range from a few years to hundreds of millions of years."

You read elementary school textbooks as if they are the source of scientific information. Then you find "inconsistencies" and harp on them as proof that the science is wrong. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS. I can just imagine citing a 6th grade Life Sciences textbook in my next paper. "The frequency of Action Potentials from the Golgi Tendon Organs is proportional to the rate of angular displacement of the joint [How Our Bodies Work]"

Worse, you score so-called victories for yourself by attacking the Straw Man. We know when this happens because you smirk and say "I'm sorry, but that's just stupid", signaling that the debate on this topic has come to a close because you've found one of those inconsequential inconsistencies. Back in my fraternity days, Mark the Communications major actually improved chapter meetings by calling us on such shabby forensics. Leave the poor Straw Man alone, Kent. Hasn't he suffered enough already?

The underlying problem is that Evolution Science is not a religion, but a science. Science is dynamic, a conglomeration of testable hypotheses and evidence that builds an ever-improving understanding of reality. Religion, on the other hand, cannot be imperfect... isn't that the nature of faith?

We definitely agree on one thing. It's the imposition of one realm onto the other that causes problems.



Also, your webpage is full of stupid. And your mom is fat.