Some one today brought it up and said you would be converted if you listened to his seminars. I did, and he would make Jim Baker or jimmy Swaggert salivate. He uses the preachers tool of getting everyone to agree with you that evil is bad and then starts telling you what is evil. He uses one item from intelligence or science and makes up his own reasoning after that. He is no different than the guy with the peanutbutter theory of evolution or the guy using a sterile hybrid banana developed in 1890 as an indication of gods plan. Any one else think this guy's elevator doesn't reach the top floor?
2007-11-28 09:28:43 · 15 answers · asked by bocasbeachbum 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Dr. Dino" is a scam artist using the convictions of his victims to fleece them - about the same thing as Joel Osteen, Pat Robertson, and other so-called preachers whose real career is enlarging themselves at the cost of the gullible. There's another game like this in almost every town - the 3-card Monte routine. But those streetcorner hucksters are just nickle-and-dime cons compared to the televangelists.
Some people just want to have another person around who speaks for their sense of being oppressed, misled, deceived, and ignored. Kent Hovind has cobbled together a REMARKABLE combination of audiences - militias, conspiracy theorists, nutcase Christian cultists (well, that's sort of a redundancy, since as far as I am concerned all Christians are nutcases belonging to disparate cults), neo-anarchists, and others. If there's a fringe group in America, Hovind wants to be their hero and martyr.
This guy deserves an entire chapter in the next edition of that great book, "Why People Believe Weird Things."
2007-11-28 09:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is rather easy to identify how people like this spin half truths and pseudo science to make it appear that they are telling the truth.
I once rather read a very lengthy post on here about how the earth was exactly in the right spot for life, and that 1% ddifference distance from the sun and we would all be dead. They argued very well that this might imply a creator. They neglected to mention that the earth fluctuates its distance from the sun by 3% in any given year. So under their logic, we are dead.
2007-11-28 09:35:06 · answer #2 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I award him a research grant, do you think I'll ever get a detailed expenditure report?
1. Company vehicle - BMW
2. Salary - Hovind
3. Office - lake view
4. Salary - Jezebel
5. Model dinos - Playdoh
"And my inability to recreate living dinos through claymation has proven that the flood waters killed them all as they roared through the Grand Canyon before it was so Grand. Because water really does ruin Playdoh, I have proven that this is how the Lord wiped them clean from the Earth. The people he made from clay, however, built a really, really big boat and survived.
Amen."
2007-11-28 09:41:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the most idiotic men I've ever seen. What very few facts he presents are twisted. He doesn't even accept the Plate Tectonic Theory. He thinks the government is trying to kill all of its citizens with jet trails and vaccinations. He loves faked stuff to use as "evidence" for his ideas. He blatantly ignores any scientific data. He just goes "now let's assume" and builds his entire argument on that. His argument against scientific theories consists of ad hominem attacks. And yes, he is a con man.
2007-11-28 09:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kent Hovind distorts or even contradicts facts. And to add to that, I never heard of someone who nedded to be convinced that evil is bad.
2007-11-28 09:37:27 · answer #5 · answered by Jonathan 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As the first person said - he's more about taking your cash, and then hiding it from the government.
But don't worry, he's still doing seminars etc from jail... how hilarious can it get
2007-11-28 09:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
He takes Argument from Ignorance and False Dichotomy to whole new levels.
2007-11-28 09:34:23 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He's rubbish. I saw one of his seminars on YouTube, and it started with assumption that the Bible is the word of God.
How do you convert anyone like that?
2007-11-28 09:34:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Kent's elevator is fine, but I'm worried about yours.
Pastor Art
2007-11-29 08:22:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never heard of him. Sounds like one more wingnut. Would love to debate him on that "evil is bad" notion.
2007-11-28 09:33:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋