<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6814048597272982882&q=Evolution " target="_blank">Mr. Kent Hovind's 100 reasons why evolution is stupid</a>.
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I have a personal peeve with that generic breed of fuckwit.
This is so beyond idiotic, but I can see how someone without a proper education and/or the ability to actually listen and remember the details of what they were taught would be suckered in by this nonsense. I watched about the first 6 minutes and made a page of notes already (see below) so I can imagine the kind of lies it continues with for 2 hours. Why he and others have to treat science like any enemy religion I can't possibly imagine, but it's called a theory you nitwits and considering astronomy has only really found out anything in less than a 100 years and religion has trying to explain things for thousands of years, ask yourself which sounds stupider while you chant to your imaginary parent figure in the sky.There's absolutely no evidence in the big bang. - Bullshit. There is evidence for it and if you really read science books you would know that. HOWEVER, it is just a best fit theory and considering how little we know about the universe given the limitations of our current technology scientists don't claim that it's perfect.
The big bang was responsible for creating all the elements besides Hydrogen. - Um no. Stars are believed to be responsible for that. We've seen the end results of a Supernova and our spectroscopes show that there are many, many different elements that are spread over vast distances because of this event. So, it's believed that Hydrogen and Helium are the two base elements in stars as it is those two that power it through nuclear fusion and all others came about from that. Where you got that the big bang was the cause of it I know not, but I certainly didn't learn your wacked out version in college.
There are a lot of stars out there, but nobody has seen one form. - Well duh. We've only really begun to make leaps in astronomy in the last 100 years and only recently even begun to "detect" other planets around other suns. In the coming years we may have a telescope that actually allows us to see them and from there who knows what other advances we will come up with. Also, assuming your; "If 20 stars blow up near each other we calculate that there will be enough energy to form a new star," is true I highly doubt it was anything but a joke. Stars are believed to form from Interstellar Clouds which also have enough materials in them to form planets as well. Considering this process doesn't happen over night and a telescope cannot view materials in the clouds with great detail, of course you're not going to see this happen if your life time. What kind of idiot are you? But, while you're on this rant - Nobody who was sane has ever seen a god. They must not exist then.
Organic material must come from inorganic material at some point and we've never seen that happen. - That's why scientists are studying all the evidence right now genius. They want to know if this happens, how it happens, and they want to be able to reproduce it. Unlike you, if they find that they are wrong they will happily go along with whatever else ends up being true as they are scientists looking for the TRUTH, not whatever best seems to fit on two seconds of inspection. When teaching theories in schools it's possible that someone will come out of the experience with ideas on how to prove it right, how to prove it wrong, or how to improve upon it. Sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming that the bible is the only correct truth does not help anyone, but yourself.
Nobody has ever seen a dog produce a non-dog. - Have you really read those science books? We've bred dogs and cows for thousands of years to the point where they have changed considerably. This is evolution. As time goes on and selective breeding is continued their species will continue to change until they actually do become something else, but it takes time and it's not instant. You will never see one species produce a different one. It will always be in small steps until you woke up one day, did a DNA test on a dog and did a DNA test on a wolf and realized that they changed enough to be a different species somewhere along the way. If we were a scientific community for the last 50,000+ years we could trace that progress, but there never would be an example of where it just happened during one birth. You, good sir, are an idiot and you need to leave educating people to trained college professors. There are plenty of classes which discuss religions in a favorable light without you making your beliefs look stupid to anyone who knows that what you're saying about scientific thought just isn't true.
Zadic:
"Julian -- You're right, there is a big difference between ignorance and stupidity. Kent is both. He's a purposefully obtuse assbite. "
Nico:
Cosmic-Hubble...
Sadly, the man does have some public speaking skills. If he understood science half as well as he understands how to persuade people, he might be on par with Einstein. Instead we get the most dangerous of idiots: the one who knows not, and knows not that he knows not.
I've heard debates with him, and he will keep coming back to the same point. Have you ever seen a dog give birth to a non-dog?'.
MK -- Point well taken, and that's is what I meant, however, I think the case can be made that Kent's purpose in being an obtuse assbite is to make money from the gullible hoards.
The top of the list of reasons why Hovind is stupid would possibly be the fact that he doesn't even recognize the difference between astronomy and biology. The two haven't anything in common, except that both are sciences -- and that Hovind (like many fundies) can't seem to accept or comprehend either one.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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