What our friends are not admitting is that even if Hovind is wrong on some things, he's is either right on much of what he says, or at least has a viable/sensible argument for many of his alternative interpretations of what is observed scientifically.
From
the site I linked to earlier:
"The electromagnetic spectrum contains all the different wavelengths. Radio waves, microwaves, X-rays, radar, sonar, including a small piece in the middle called light."
"I say, you guys have to get two cells to evolve from the [primordial] soup - of the opposite sex, in the same place, at the same time. It's a big world, you know, cells are kind of small - they've got to find each other."
"Hey, did you know the word 'universe' comes from two Latin words? Uni means single and verse means a spoken sentence."
"In 1271 A.D. Marco Polo came back from China and reported that the Emperor of China was raising dragons to pull his chariots in parades. Now why on earth would Marco Polo say something like that just 700 years ago? Well, I think he probably said that because the Emperor of China was raising dragons to pull his chariots in parades."
"If you are traveling down the highway at sixty miles an hour, and turn your headlights on, how fast is the light going from your headlights? Compared to you, it is going at the speed of light. Compared to someone on the sidewalk it is going at the speed of light plus sixty miles an hour."
"See, the Sun puts off a lot of stuff besides light. It puts off X rays, gamma rays, beta rays - and all them ray boys come down here and they're pretty hard on your carcass... Long-term exposure to X rays is dangerous but here we are getting X rayed every day of our life."
"Man has done almost nothing to the ozone. In fact, my understanding is that the last time scientists measured the ozone layer, it was thicker than it was the first time they measured it."
My personal favorite... "I did not even know what being a humanist meant. I was only sixteen, and the brain doesn't even start developing until about twenty."
"Therefore, there may not be any other stars in the solar system that have planets around them."
"A lot of things - like allergies - are directly related to problems in the back and neck. A chiropractor can fix a lot of them."
"We had survived to turn on the History Channel
And ask our esteemed panel, Why are we alive? And here's how they replied:
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died."
-Andrew Bird
™ Version 4.2
