<a href="http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=3359 " target="_blank">Kent Hovind makes a complete ass of himself, nothing unusual here</a>.
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This guy is a master of ad hominem: attacking the messanger. He goes after legitimite scientists with emotional arguments, blaming the recent problems of the world on evolution, despite the fact that NUMEROUS things have gone on since the nineteenth century that have nothing to do with the teaching of evolution. The real cause of the changes had more to do with the industrial revolution, imperialism, rise of electronic media, etc.
His only semi-intelligent view is the one where he promotes agnosticism, but then fails to realize that the point he made has nothing to do with the bible whatsoever.
The only time Kent Hovind shows up in science journals is when his theories are being crushed like marshmallow bunnies.
Please, by all means, ignore every horrible act people have done in God's name while assuming that every murder done by an atheist must have been directly linked in their minds to an accurate portrayal of evolution theory.
Yeah, yeah, Hitler and dictators. We've heard it before. These arguments are called ad hominems and guilt by association - they're logical fallacies. Just because I'm an atheist and a socialist doesn't mean I'm Stalin or Pol Pot. Trying to pin me to megalomaniacal dictators is frankly insulting. I could rattle off hundreds of crackpot Christian monarchs and dictators who have done terrible things and compare Kent Hovind to them, but I won't. He made himself an idiot all by his lonesome.
By the way, Hitler was a Catholic, at least in public. Anything else is pure conjecture.
I'd love to see Saturdy Night Live or some similar sketch-comedy show do a proper parody of Hovind someday. They wouldn't even have to put words in his mouth; they could just have the guy playing Hovind repeat verbatim some of the stuff he has said in public and in print, and then (for a change) have it challenged and shown up as nonsense by an audience of knowledgeable skeptics, rather than the sheeple he usually gets.
~David D.G.
Maronan - No, that is not Hovind in the still. Here are some of Kent Hovind's videos . From them, you can see more-or-less what he really looks like.
This particular video is up there as "Kent Hovind - The Dangers of Evolution". He does indeed talk a little strangely, but overall he's a pretty good orator. It's a shame that he speaks that well and yet engages in no real, moderated debates.
Edit : Who in the world intends "Dylan" to be pronounced like "DIE-luhn"? It isn't that rare of a name!
OK, it works now. It's an hour and a half, though; that's too much bullshit to handle at once. I skimmed through a little, though. Just the usual; the guilt by phony associations to the Nazis, the argument from phony consequences, the lying, and the appeals to pride. It's sad that there were kids in the audience getting their minds poisoned.
Also, if you discount the black part before the video starts, Hovind (or, rather, Eric) sets a world record speed: A Godwin in 5 seconds!
I had to pause 18 seconds in for a breather, after the first line discussed "evolution as a philosophy" and evolution as Hitler's religion.
Paused again at 24 seconds, wondering about "dictators throughout time" using "evolutionary ideas".
Once again, I was forced to pause at 42 seconds, as I couldn't take any more of that idiotic montage.
1:09 paused because Hovind's accent is so annoying.
1:19 paused to laugh at Hovind calling something a "dumb idea"
1:56 paused to ponder what the hell the invasion of Iraq had to do with Stalin executing 17,000 POWs, and why he suddenly switched topics between the two.
2:08 mentions of hitler and pol pot. Skipping ahead, I can see where this shit is going.
31:25 "accusing" 'evolutionists' of methodological naturalism. Description of humans as a non-natural cause. WTF? Video stopped: brain can't take anymore stupid.
Total viewing time: 2 minutes, 23 seconds
This particular video is up there as >>"Kent Hovind - The Dangers of Evolution". He does indeed talk a little strangely, but overall he's a pretty good orator. It's a shame that he speaks that well and yet engages in no real, moderated debates.<<
I wouldn't say he's that great at it--his little "gorgeous wife" quip sure fell flat. Didn't get much further than two minutes after that though.
Luffy - I didn't mean that his material is good, just that he speaks well. He doesn't pause a lot. I watched for a short while and didn't notice any "uh", "um", or other such halts. He speaks at a relatively consistent rate and not in bursts. There are lots of other little things like that which all combine to tell me that he's spent a lot of time learning to speak publicly.
One of the comments on the page says "He sounds like a muppet". He does!
The whole attempt to equate those who were clearly mentally ill (Hitler, the Columbine shooters, Kip Kinkel, etc.) with belief in evolution really confuses me. Can this man really not tell the difference? Seriously?
Mad dog.
Ali G is a character played by Sasha Barry Cohen (a Jew). He is absolutely brilliant, especially in the way he can read an manipulate people.
His character Borat, is truly hilarious, mainly from the way he plays up to peoples prejudices and they buy it. It's not from how stupid or offensive he acts, but that they don't see he's yanking their chain.
Ali G used to do some great interview work in the UK and he's had some huge people on in the US - Boutros Boutros Ghali, Newt Geingrich etc come to mind.
I also remember an episode in the UK where he was talking to a Cambridge Professor and the professor thought he was having a conversation about Orwellian double-thought, and Ali G was talking about the infamous bestiality porno Animal Farm .
(oh and I wasn't a fan of the clip above I really thought he was going to hand it to Hovind. Although the banana stuff was brilliant.)
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Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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