Kent Hovind

[Dust and Ashes]

I've watched all of Hovind's seminar videos multiple times and several of his debates. He is very entertaining and he certainly makes you think although he does use some arguments that have been proven incorrect or at least very questionable. I still watch his videos and recommend them to people even though I don't agree with a good deal of his theology but thankfully, he sticks to the subject and keeps the "bones" to a minimum.

There have been instances where he was less than gracious with debate opponents who treated him with much more respect than he treated them but there again, he is just a man so I can't pass judgement on him too harshly. Personally I tend to depend more on AiG more for accuracy simply because they are much more concerned with it.

 

[Vance]

(and AIG all but came out and called Hovind a liar and a fraud)

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

ahh. sounds like alot of defamation and slander to me. lovely.

.....what is that verse in scripture about calling your brother a fool (raca)?

Oh this is too much. You defend a selection of Hovind quotes where he makes incredibly offensive and slanderous claims about the Clintons, scientists creating AIDS and so on, and try to describe my appraisal of your response as "defamation and slander"?

Pot, kettle, black.

 

[SIXDAYCREATIONIST]

lynne, ignore the trolls and win

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

Who are you calling a troll, smartypants?

 

[adam149]

Not to butt into the conversation, but just to add some additional facts to be considered.

A series of quotes from Hovind (which can be found at the site linked on the bottom). You be the judge of whether the man is trustworthy:

I may not always be right, but if I am saying it in my seminar then I don't know it to be false.

A simple trick you can do. Suppose someone is getting married and going off on their honeymoon, you can pull out the coil wire [of the car engine]. Stick a door bell wire under there, pull it back, bring the door bell wire through the fire wall, and weave it through the fabric of the seat. They get in there all excited going on their honeymoon, you know, hit the key. Bam!! Ohh, ahh. Ha, ha, ha. I can give you lots more ideas but we’ll stop there.

Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?

What do HIV, West Nile Fever, Gulf war syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Wegener's disease, Parkinson's disease, Crohn's colitis, Type I diabetes, and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's have in common? These plagues were all developed as a joint effort by the money masters and governments of the world under the guise of biowarfare research. The bad guys who would like to have a one world government have learned a simple technique - you create a crisis and then the people will call for you to come solve the crisis. That’s why the Oklahoma City Bombing took place. They wanted to get the anti-terrorist bill passed through Congress. […..] Whenever there is a crisis like the Twin Towers getting blown up, you had just better look behind the scenes to see what is really happening. Why is this going on? There’s a reason for it, okay, it’s all part of a plan. […..] [American] Civil War was intentionally done, World War Two, the Great Depression, all these things are planned ahead of time and they are orchestrated to […..] cause a particular response amongst the people.

My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [sic] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio.

Stanley Deyo, a Christian, is a genius who wrote the book [The Cosmic Conspiracy]. Way over my head. Deyo says that there are two kinds of UFOs. First, there are US government owned and operated UFOs. That really got my attention. The US government has UFOs? He said that the second kind is the satanically owned and operated UFOs. He says that Satan has always used that mode of transportation to get around because the devil [sic] can only be at one place at one time, whereas God is all places at all times. That may be far fetched, so please do not accuse me of saying this is true. I do not know if it is true, but it is an interesting theory.

The globalist, the Council of the Committee of Three Hundred, has as one of their goals to reduce the world population from six billion to one-half billion people. There are too many people here that cannot be controlled; so get rid of them. That's why AIDS was purposefully developed in a Maryland laboratory to wipe out population.

On August 6, a grand jury hears former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, reported to testify that she and President carried on a sexual affair. On August 7 two U.S. Embassies in Africa are bombed, steering the news headlines away from the Lewinsky affair. The attacks are later blamed on Osama bin Laden. Why would bin Laden time these attacks to divert attention away from the Clinton affair? This has never been explained.

[All] Dinosaurs have four perfectly good [quadruped] legs and birds have two legs and two wings. So if he’s going to turn into a bird his front legs are going to have to turn into wings [….] Somewhere along the line they’re going to be half leg and half wing. Which means now he can’t walk anymore and can’t fly yet.

Hey, did you know the word 'universe' comes from two Latin words? Uni means single and verse means a spoken sentence.

Those who have been in the [Noah’s] Ark, and many have been in the last couple hundred years ….

Einstein's theory was that the speed of light is a constant. Time is the variable. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe time is the constant and light is the variable.

I believe the Great Pyramid was built to be the Bible in stone. The Egyptians did not build it.

Therefore, there may not be any other stars in the solar system that have planets around them.

Obviously, several different colors of people exist on the earth that have distinctive characteristics, but they are the same race. [.....] One theory says that Adam and Eve were medium-brown, possibly because they were made from the earth.

[url="http://www.geocities.com/kenthovind/quotes"]www.geocities.com/kenthovind/quotes[/url]

I don't agree with his conspiracy theory stuff, however, if you watch the seminars, you will find that he either never made the statements (many of them are paraphrases made to make him sound crazy) or are taken from their context to make them appear unsubstanciated or off-the-wall comments.

Besides, the site you link to has been thoroughly rebutted by Hovind on his radio program, and he has responded to the arguments on the over 1000 anti-Hovind websites. Do not trust sceptics (http://www.tektonics.org/calcon.html) They rarely have anything intelligent to say, and that site (which I'm familiar with) is no exception.

 

[Dark_Lite]

Well... Hovind is crazy.

It's quite simple really.

 

[Vance]

Actually, as someone who thinks that the YEC message does major damage to Christianity, I am of two minds. On the one hand, he is so ridiculous that he just makes the YEC cause a laughingstock. This *should* have the result of making even those who accept YEC'ism now rethink this position. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about what evolution is all about and what the evidence out there is knows that he is just selling (literally) a bill of goods.

On the other hand, I am not sure I have enough trust in the general public, who likes a snazzy speaker who makes you laugh and talks in a folksy way that is easy to understand, to see through all this to realize that the man is just selling a pack of half-truths and simple falsehoods. The attempts to defend even his most crackpot and slanderous positions on this very forum makes me shake may head in shame for my fellow Man. Thus, the YEC cause could actually grow, thus damaging Christianity even further.

One good sign is that AIG (a leading Creationist group who at least makes a pretense of attempting real science) has called him to the carpet for his misleading and near-fraudulent ways. The problem is that Hovind is a better speaker, more appealing, and has found that he can pretty much say what he likes, even if he has to make it up, and get away with it, despite what more responsible Creationist groups have to say about it. One thing Hovind repeatedly refuses to do is engage in any written debates in which actual scientific arguments must be supported and presented in scientific manner. He will ONLY debate verbally, where he can use his speaking skills to avoid real issues, misdirect the conversation, use pithy one liners, and where the complicated issues can't be fully presented and fleshed out. Hovind is entertainment, not truth.

But, I really shouldn't be here in this forum, so I will head back to the real world and let the coziness continue.

 

[PotLuck]

But, I really shouldn't be here in this forum, so I will head back to the real world and let the coziness continue.

Well alrighty. We'll be here whenever you again feel the urge to post something you didn't want to post in the first place.

Good seeing ya by the way.

 

[Isserty_Dawn]

creationists, what do you think of the ministry and science of Kent Hovind? (Creation Science Evangelism; drdino.(com?).)

has anyone watched the whole 16 or so hours of the creation science seminar?

i know of a lot of ppl who have had their faith in God renewed by watching them.

I have watched them and I like what he says. Although there are a few things that I disagree on, it's like he says, "Eat the meat and spit out the bones".
I have shared his seminar with family and they loved it because it answered so many questions and opened their eyes to possibilities they never new.

 

[LynneClomina]

Oh this is too much. You defend a selection of Hovind quotes where he makes incredibly offensive and slanderous claims about the Clintons, scientists creating AIDS and so on, and try to describe my appraisal of your response as "defamation and slander"?

Pot, kettle, black.

him, pot.
you, kettle.
me, black.

that's my point.

so does that discredit us?

so why him?

 

[LynneClomina]

Well... Hovind is crazy.

It's quite simple really.

so you're saying he's a fool, eh?
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Mt 5:22 -
But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of hell fire.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

him, pot.
you, kettle.
me, black.

that's my point.

so does that discredit us?

so why him?

The difference is that my appraisal did not, despite your assertions, contain any defamation or unsubstantiated allegation. His did.

 

[KleinerApfel]

I have purposely not commented before on this thread, since I didn't know a lot about the man and felt the "hear say" was not a good enough basis for me to comment.

However, from here and some links, the little I have read makes me distrustful of him.

I am VERY wary of accepting any Christian teaching from a person of questionable moral behaviour.

If a teacher has been proven to use support for his ideas while knowing it has been discarded by most others, including creation scientists, and if he's rude and derogatory when challenged,, then I don't need to know any more about him or his work.

Now, it's hard to verify all the accusations, but the fact that AIG have had some concerns carries some weight with me.

I agree you can sometimes "eat the meat and spit out the bones", but the problem is; not everyone knows the difference, and so can be led astray.
This would particularly apply to new Christians or seekers, whose discernment is yet to develop fully.

Blessings, Susana

 

[MatthewDiscipleofGod]

Before taking Hovind quotes out of context or using quotes that are just made up you can easily contact him during his radio show M-F 5pm-6pm central time using AOL IM and get more information straight for the horses mouth. I suggest anyone to do that before taking any "Hovind quotes" as a valid discredit to him and his ministry. If your wondering I have seen his new seminar series, the one from I believe 1999 I own and also have seen a seminar in person. After them seminar I talked to him for a while in person. Also I have watched most of his video debates. I don't agree with all his beliefs but all to often I hear him misquoted and insulted for no good reason, from Christians none the less.

 

[Tachocline]

Can we ask him about tax evasions & cures for cancer?

 

[MatthewDiscipleofGod]

Can we ask him about tax evasions & cures for cancer?

You can like many other people have. I'm sure if you listen to the radio shows from that same link you'll find a few where he talks about it.

 

[Micaiah]

Here is a link to the AIG site that gives a response to Hovind on arguments AIG do not recommend Christians use against evolution.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/1011hovind.asp

Here is another link from a Baptist church in the US that has discontinued using Hovind's material.

http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/hovind.htm

 

[SIXDAYCREATIONIST]

Can we ask him about tax evasions & cures for cancer?

first thanx project, you stole what i was going to say. rather than judge, why don't u talk to him directly?

anyhow, he does not "evade" taxes like many think, but rather knows the law quite well and doesn't pay the taxes he isn't supposed to. i haven't had a ssn since i was born. i won't have an ssn and many think u have to, but u don't have to have one. it's about knowing the law.

as for cancer, yes nutrition is a big key. actually hovind will never say this but the "cancer battle plan" is a good book on it.

 

[Micaiah]

Do you know the story acout his accountant I think it was, who was on parole? I can post the thread discussing this if you wish.