Kent Hovind is skilled in persuasive rhetoric to sway those largely ignorant of the subject. He makes appeals to what they can understand, uses ridicule they can understand. This kind of demogogery has been in use for millenia, but it's not science and is not used to establish or falsify scientific or other rational arguments. That doesn't mean it's not useful in entertaining people or motivating people politically, religiously, or to sell things or work hard, whatever.
A good scientist or scholar may be very skilled in making logical arguments without being a good motivational rhetorical demogogue.
I know that the plural of ancedote is not data, but I'm going to toss an ancedote in here. I work briefly selling stereos. The best salesmen in the store was incredibly ignorant of electonics but customers loved him and he sold a lot of equipment. I once had to leave the floor to keep from bursting out laughing as he explained in all earnest ignorance to a customer's question about a receiver they had just purchased from him in regards to the post marked "ground". He told them they could hook it up to anything, a piece of wood and it the radio reception would improve. A lot of people found him charming and his enthusism, totally ignorant as it was, seemed to be infectious.
I actively censure Hovind though. He uses his slick talk to manipulate people and trample on real work, real facts, and theories. I find his behaviour despicable. To debate him won't establish truth. If he was sincere about his theories he would submit them for written analysis. That is how real science is done. Frauds on the other hand utterly avoid knowledgable scrutiny. Hovind is a fraud, a huckster, a snake oil peddler, profiting by selling people what they want to believe, that the old time religion is easily defended by a few simple to understand jibes at science.
Hovind's claims aren't true. Some are meaningless like the ads that claim something is "100% pure". Most are misleading lies or nonsense.
But he is a good salesmen with lots of satisfied customers.
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