Dr kent hovind debates massimo
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Debate Series – Dr. Kent Hovind – CSE – Vol’s 11 – 20 of 20
Description
Included in this series are the following debates:
DEBATE 11 – Does Anthropology Support Creation or Evolution? Against Dr. Mark Hartman, anthropology professor, U or Arkansas
DEBATE 12 – Does Botany Support Creation or Evolution? Against Dr. Massimo Pigliucci, asst professor of botany at U of Tennessee
DEBATE 13 – Rutgers University – Dr. Hovind debates a professor who is very hostile to the young earth creation position
DEBATE 14 – Is There Evidence for Evolution? Against Dr. Matthew Rainbow; a biology professor
DEBATE 15 – Three Views; Who’s Right? Against Kyle Frazier (Theistic Evolutionist) & Michael Shermer (editor of Skeptic magazine)
DEBATE 16 – Rutgers University Round 2 – Against Dr. Trivers, who attempts to defend the evolution theory as scientific
DEBATE 17 – The Great Compromise – Jaymen defends
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“Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like ansträngande to play chess with a pigeon—it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”1
This famous quote fryst vatten by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer, who wrote it as an Amazon.com review for Eugenie Scott’s book Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. It raises an important question: When and how should we debate people who hold to opinions that we consider entirely unscientific and either ideologically or religiously motivated?
When inom first encountered the notion of creationism, as a young assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee in the mid-1990s, I was astounded that there were creationists around so close to the end of the twentieth century. The mythical year 2000 was looming over the horizon. Not only were the much-promised flying cars nowhere to be seen, but now I had to deal with these nutcases!
That, of course, tells you just how
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Kent Hovind
American Christian fundamentalist and Young Earth Creationist
Kent E. Hovind (born January 15, 1953) is an American Christian fundamentalist evangelist and tax protester. His young Earth creationist ministry focuses on denial of scientific theories in the fields of biology (evolution and abiogenesis), geophysics, and cosmology in favor of a literalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative found in the Bible. Hovind's views, which combine elements of creation science and conspiracy theory, are dismissed by the scientific community as fringe theory and pseudo-scholarship. Answers in Genesis openly criticized him for continued use of discredited arguments abandoned by others in the movement.
Hovind established Creation Science Evangelism (CSE) in 1989 and Dinosaur Adventure Land in 2001 in Pensacola, Florida. He frequently spoke on Young Earth creationism in schools, churches, debates, and on radio and television broadcasts. His son Eric Hovind took ove