Kent Hovind

Kent E. Hovind (born 15 January 1953), the self-styled Dr Dino, is an American Young Earth Creationist (YEC) evangelist who is currently offering US$250,000 to anyone who can prove evolution "is the only possible way," that the Universe and life arose, although the offer is widely considered to be spurious. He is the founder of Creation Science Evangelism, his non-profit ministry.

Hovind and mainstream critics

Critics charge that Kent Hovind's creation/evolution presentations are a mix of pseudoscience, Christian Fundamentalism and conspiracy theories.

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Pseudoscience - Christian Fundamentalism - Conspiracy theories

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Hovind is mostly known for his debates with evolutionists. The best-known contemporary evolutionists, Richard Dawkins and the late Stephen Jay Gould, have in the past refused to debate Hovind by claiming that debate is not how science works and gives charlatans more of an advantage than systematic inquiry (see: scientific method). Hovind disagrees, and feels that they avoid debate simply because the audience will perceive that evolution is not as factual as evolutionists claim it is.

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Debate - Richard Dawkins - Stephen Jay Gould - Scientific method

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In Hovind's debates, he traditionally focuses on trying to discredit evolutionary theory, cosmology, and geology rather than providing evidence for Creationism. However, he does occasionally present what he says is evidence for a Biblical flood, among other creationist theories such as the canopy theory. He is regarded, even among many other Young Earth Creationists as being crude in his argumentation. The vast majority of scientists do not take Hovind's work very seriously or agree with his interpretation of the facts.

Related Topics:
Creationism - Biblical flood - Canopy theory

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