It may be that reptiles today have lost - there's been a degeneration - and they've lost strength or energy and they have to drag their belly on the ground. They're running out of gas. [.....] So it maybe that all reptiles used to walk upright [on four legs] and now they're just like old people. They didn't start out that way.
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Frilled lizard. Lives in the desert, runs like fuck on two legs.
He doesn't believe any of this shit, does he?
It has nothing to do with strength. It has to do with the fact that lizards are cold blooded and so they have their bodies lower to the ground so they can be closer to the warm hot early morning rocks.
Also meet the Basilisk lizard. Some people call it the Jesus Christ lizard because it RUNS ON THE FUCKING WATER!!! On two legs!image
@ Psittacosis
He doesn't believe any of this shit, does he?
Of course not, he's in it for the money, pure and simple.
Although show me a religion where that's not true and I'll eat my head.
The only ones running out of gas, are the creationists..
I've heard many stupid claims, but this is beyond stupid...
It's called "anatomy" and "structure," asshat. Some animals have legs directly beneath them, some have them out to the sides. Amazing the complexity and form-follows-function that evolution has provided all of gawd's creatures, innit? Even caged mistakes like you, Hov.
This is another in an endless list of trite fundy "Just So" stories.
while this is really stupid, I think what he's "trying" to say is that this would explain the disappearence of dinosaurs - all their legs sagged out to the side as they got older (???)
of course evolution, extinctions, and so on provide perfectly sane answers to the current lack of dinosaurs
"They're running out of gas"
But how can they run on gas if earth is only ~6000 years old? Or do you mean gas as in helium, that would explain it - The dinosaurs deflated and became reptiles!
No need for Evolution when we have Deflation.
somebody with no name wrote:
I automatically approve any Kent Hovind quotes. you know he believes them, because nobody would go to jail for a lie, right?
But he didn't go to jail for any of the religious crap he spouts. He went to jail for cheating on his taxes. The crap that gets posted here has nothing to do with why he's in jail (unless it's about how taxes are immoral or something like that). "
Okay, this one is just plain stupid.
Now you're saying all lizards are old? Lizard births are a known fact. You find lizard eggs, you hatch lizard eggs. Hell go dig up some 'gator eggs in Florida (don't worry about mom, she won't mind).
Seriously, either he's to the point now he's trying to see how far he can push this shit and still have followers. Or Bubba's been pushing too hard while fucking his ear.
Oh and as far as his Tax Fraud goes - he went to jail because he tried to claim that his theme park was a church and therefore did not have to pay taxes. So yeah, his beliefs had something to do with it. That and I guess he figured since he could bullshit all the fundies, he'd try and branch out.
Not that I'd ever go there, since he was also heavily fined for not bothering to pull any permits. Maybe it will come down on 1000 fundies! one can dream
The reptilian stance is not a tired, worn out dinosaur stance. Dinosaurs had their legs directly underneath them, like humans. No matter how old I get, my legs will remain under my pelvis. My hip and knee joints are not going to rotate, leaving me to drag my ass on the ground.
Hovind has lost the ability to tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Seriously. He seems to believe that whatever he makes up magically becomes true. That probably explains why he assumed he could make up some wild arguments about why he shouldn't have to pay taxes and the judge would just nod his head, murmuring approval, just like all his groupies do.
How else could someone come up with pleading "subornation of false muster?"
"So it maybe that all reptiles used to walk upright [on four legs] and now they're just like old people. They didn't start out that way."
Very like old people in fact, given that all of them have apparently had hip-replacements somewhere along the line.
antichrist wrote:
"Now you're saying all lizards are old?" No.
He's saying that lizards have degenerated from how well built they were in the Good Old Days, and to bring the point home he made an analogy with old people.
You see, while Kent Hovind doesn't believe that a population can improve due to mutation and natural selection, he's perfectly all right with the notion that a population can get worse due to losing beneficial genes. It's in keeping with the Fundie stance that death & decay are results of the Fall from Eden.
Of course, he also seems to be implying that all extinct reptiles are dinosaurs....
You know, with all the magnificent shit that Kent spurts out in his struggle to cure his cognitive dissonance; reconciling the reality of the world with his batshit crazy Christianity...The things he's willing to entertain as possibilities and beliefs are ASTOUNDING. Yet, while he'll entertain things far more wild than the general consensus on the origin of the Earth/Universe/Organisms, he'll never entertain the science; he argues it's absurd.
Ok, so lets review God's Infallible Word (Re-write #287):
- A lizard tricks Even into scrumping.
So nowadays the lizards are born as old people, huh? Yup, perfectly logic..
No, just no. That's like saying giraffes have long necks because they stretched them out by trying to get the leaves off a tree. It's outdated and just plain wrong.
Although I must admit, the image of a T-Rex dragging itself along the ground on those two stubby arms of his is hilarious.
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