Do people really still take Kent Hovind seriously?

Answer 1

Yup. I hear him quoted or cited in all seriousness on here every once in a while.

In one sense, it's effective; the man is such a unreconstructed slimeball that the temptation to launch a furious ad hominem is almost unavoidable.

He really knows his audience, too, because most of his statements are designed to be easy for his targets to believe, while slow to refute.

I'm almost impressed, it's like running Amway or the Mafia from prison.