Is Dr. Dino (Kent Hovind) a total joke?

[popeye]

By the way, Darwin’s only degree was in theology yet he is often called a great scientist in textbooks today. Who and what determines who gets to be called a "scientist" and why don’t these scoffers put the same effort into correcting textbooks that call "Reverend" Darwin a scientist?http://web.archive.org/web/20000903025232/http://www.drdino.com/FAQs/FAQmisc13.jsp

 

[popeye]

When the opponent in a debate begins using ad hominem attacks, it is an obvious signal that they are losing the debate on facts and must resort to other means to try to save face or divert attention. It is also interesting to watch how the evolutionists will spend much time and effort scrutinizing a subject like my degree or credentials yet won’t spend 2 seconds scrutinizing how ridiculous the evolution theory is! They truly strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Matthew 23:24http://web.archive.org/web/20000903025232/http://www.drdino.com/FAQs/FAQmisc13.jsp

 

[popeye]

Even if the nearest star were only one light year away (and it isn’t), the angle at the third point measures .017 degrees. In simpler terms, a triangle like this would be the same angle two surveyors would see if they were standing sixteen inches apart and focusing on a third point 8.24 miles away. If they stayed 16 inches apart and focused on a dot 824 miles away, they would have the same angle as an astronomer measuring a point 100 light years away. A point 5 million years away is impossible to figure with trigonometry. The stars may be that far away but modern man has no way of measuring those great distances. No one can state definitively the distance to the stars. The stars may indeed be billions of light years away, but man cannot measure those distances.[h=2]Dr. Dino[/h]

 

[popeye]

Several other methods such as luminosity and red shift are employed to try to guess at greater distances but all such methods have serious problems and assumptions involved. For a more complex and slightly different answer to the star light question from a Christian perspective, see the book Starlight and Time by Russell Humphry available from The Institute for Creation Research | The Institute for Creation Research

 

[popeye]

Third, the creation account states that God made light before He made the sun, moon, or stars. The rest of creation was mature, so starlight was probably mature at creation as well. I would ask the question, How old was Adam when God made him? Obviously he was zero years old. But how old did he look? He was a full-grown man. The trees were full-grown with fruit on them the first day they were made. The creation had to be that way; it would not work otherwise. Stars and their light were made at the same time. The God that I worship is not limited by anything involving time, space or matter.

 

[popeye]

Finally, I would also like to point out that the evolutionists have no answer to the basic questions like; Where did the original matter space and energy come from for the stars? I suspect God built the universe so we would say "Wow!" When we see the stars we should be reminded of the glory of God not evolution. See Psalms 8.

 

[popeye]

This question shows a common false assumption that many people make. They assume the earth today is the same as it has always been. Today’s earth is 70% under water. There are scriptural and scientific indications that the pre-flood world had greater air pressure, higher percentages of oxygen and carbon dioxide, more land and less water and a canopy of water to filter out the harmful effects of the sun. This would cause there to be many times more plants and animals on the earth than there are today.[h=2]Dr. Dino[/h]

 

[popeye]

The added air pressure would diffuse more gasses into the water and support a much greater fish population and aquatic plant life per cubic mile also. II Peter 3 tells us that the scoffers in the last days will be willingly ignorant of how God created the heavens and the earth. They would also be ignorant of the flood. These two great events must be considered before making any statements about the conditions on earth today. Only about 3% of the earth today is habitable for man today. The rest is under water, ice, deserts, mountains, etc. If the earth before the flood were say, 70% habitable, it could have supported a huge population.[h=2]Kent Hovind[/h]

 

[popeye]

There are scriptural and scientific indications that the pre-flood world had greater air pressure, higher percentages of oxygen and carbon dioxide, more land and less water and a canopy of water to filter out the harmful effects of the sun. This would cause there to be many times more plants and animals on the earth than there are today.Dr. Dino

 

[popeye]

The vast amount and world-wide distribution of fossils shows the flood was global and that God hates sin enough to judge the entire world.[h=2]Kent Hovind[/h]

 

[popeye]

I believe that before the flood in the days of Noah people were much bigger and smarter than the average person is today. The Bible says they were living to be more than 900 years old. I show some of the evidence for giant humans on my video tape #1. As for smarter, you could learn a lot in 900 years! Plus, Adam came from the hand of God fully programmed with language capacity and the ability to classify or sort items quickly (he named all the animals in one day). Adam was around for over half of the time before the flood came, so his great knowledge could be spread throughout the world.Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

In the last 400 years there has been a great increase in accumulated technology. This is not the same as wisdom or intelligence. We can have a computer because thousands of men before have invented various parts and ideas that can be put together. There is no evidence that modern man is smarter than ancient man. I think the opposite is true. Many of the ancient structure indicate greater intelligence in solving problems in a low-tech age.Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

As for man getting bigger, there has been an increase in average size over the last few hundred years in industrialized countries due to improved diet, sanitation, medicine etc but this is not to be confused with evolution. Also the trend in bigger people is not proof of long-term growth patterns. If man today is say 8 inches taller than average man during the American Revolution 200 years ago it obviously would not prove that man was 80 inches shorter 2000 years ago or 800 inches shorter 20,000 years ago!Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

Evolutionists teach that the earth was a boiling hot, molten mass that slowly cooled down over millions of years. Well, the Bible says in Genesis chapter 1 that "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." So the surface of the earth was covered with water; it could not have been a hot, molten mass.Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

There is scientific evidence to support the Biblical account. Robert Gentry of Knoxville, Tennessee, does amazing research on radio-polonium halos in granite rock. Polonium is a rare element that is radioactive; it breaks down or decays like uranium. But polonium only lasts a few minutes. As it breaks down, it sends off little particles that fly a certain distance. An analogy would be a hand-grenade exploding under water that produces a sphere of fragments in the water that only lasts a fraction of a second before it collapses. Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

Different elements have fragments that fly different distances, each radioactive element has a particular "signature" (how big a circle it can make in the rock as it decays like a more powerful hand grenade would produce a bigger sphere in the water). Radio-active polonium, when it decays in a solid rock, makes a perfect sphere as it decays because all its fragments fly about the same distance from the center. If it decays in solid rock, the circle is preserved. But if it decays in a hot molten rock, the circle disappears. All over the world radio-polonium halos exist in granite, indicating the earth was never a hot, molten mass. See Robert Gentry’s book Creations Tiny Mystery, available from ICR (619) 448-0900

 

[RachelBibleStudent]

are you done with your attempt at drowning any rational creation apologetics discussion in hovind spam yet?

 

[popeye]

It is also interesting that Gentry’s research was published in many major science magazines until someone realized that it was proving the big bang theory to be a big dud. The censorship of his valuable material by mainstream science magazines is incredible but predictable. Evolution is a very carefully protected state religion in this humanist world today.Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

How do you explain the formation of fine strata layers called varves, such as those in the Green River formation in Wyoming, which contains 20 million fine layers which represent 1 year each? Doesn’t this prove the earth is more than 6,000 years old?Kent Hovind

 

[popeye]

are you done with your attempt at drowning any rational creation apologetics discussion in hovind spam yet?

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