Chip off the Old Blockhead
Back when I was a creationist (I still shudder admitting that) I was a big fan of a man who called himself ‘Dr. Dino.’ Dr. Dino had a website with free videos, where he explained how evolution was false, how the geological column resulted from sediment settling out during Noah’s flood, and how the freemasons were a satanic cult that laid out the streets of Washington DC in the form of a pentagram. I thought the guy was a genius.
Turns out, Dr. Dino, whose real name is Kent Hovind, wasn’t a doctor at all. He got his degree from a Cracker Jack box known as Patriot University, and he was pretty much full of shit. The so called “Hovind Theory” of creation, which held that dinosaurs were just plain old lizards whose growth was unhampered by UV rays due to an imagined layer of ice that used to float around in the upper atmosphere, could be dismantled by a three minute visit to Talk Origins.
These days, Kent is doing time for tax evasion, but his son Eric has taken up the sword with his new website CreationMinute.com. It’s essentially a rehash of the same old tripe his dad was peddling, but now with fancier graphics + handsomer front man! It doesn’t hurt that Eric lacks his father’s demeanor of “at any moment I’m going to bolt screaming across the room to molest the nearest child.”
Anyway, go check out his idiotic website, and watch him talk about the Big Bang, throwing around the words “something” and “nothing” like he knows what they mean. Oh, and he recently posted a new video about the Grand Canyon. I love it when creatonists talk about the Grand Canyon. It’s always something to the effect of “hmm…isn’t the Grand Canyon strange? It seems to me that it’s evidence against the entire theory of geology and that the God of the Jews is real.”
If you do go, follow the link from Pharyngula, because PZ Myers is trying to win an iPod touch.
Tags: Creationism, Dr. Dino, Eric Hovind, Kent Hovind, Yeckers
May 21st, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I’m sure if God wanted to, He could make the water flow uphill. Couldn’t he? So what’s the problem?
May 21st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Ah. Good ol’ Hovind inanity. One of my favorite moments of my undergrad career was an intro to Archaeology class where we watched one of Hovind the Elder’s youtube videos and tore it apart using our rudimentary knowledge.
I’ve got a creationist right now hanging around my blog. It’s been…interesting. Pretty by-the-book stuff, arguments from irreducible complexity, life can’t come from non-life, there are no transitional fossils, evolution can’t be replicated in the lab, and my favorite, the argument that the 2nd law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible.
What I find really amusing (in a sad way) about these sorts of arguments is that they are so arrogant. These people use their arguments from personal incredulity and arguments from ignorance to support everything. And in turn, they think that their gripes against evolution are actually novel, like if they bring up irreducible complexity even the most learned biologist is going to be stumped and say, “Oh gee, that’s a good point…I hadn’t thought of it before.” They actually think that they, lay people, people with degrees from Patriot U, are able to outsmart people who have dedicated their lives to studying evolution and biology. They think that their armchair observations are enough to dismantle the entire theory. How conceited is that?