The Questioning Librarian

Kent Hovind, the false "Dr. Dino", and his ilk are at it again. In a new article on his website, Hovind (or whoever authored the piece, perhaps his son) claims that while creationists have no problems using miracles to explain events (a habit that perpetually makes them unfit to do real science), evolutionists criticize them for it, even though, in Hovind's mind, they rely on miracles just as much to explain their "religion" of descent through natural selection. This is, at its core, demonstrably nonsense. He claims that a "miracle" is needed to make stars and planets form out of gas, a supposed violation of Boyle's Law because there was no "outside force" acting on the gas and dust. How about gravity, Dr. Dino? That would certainly explain it, no miracles needed here. This attack is a non-sequitur. The objection has everything to do with astronomy and cosmology and nothing to do with evolution, which is the development of new species o...

Thanks to Michael Shermer for the link to this article, also for confirming that, yes, "Dr." Kent Hovind is still in jail after being convicted of tax evasion. Too bad he doesn't accept evolution, then he could pull the creationist canard that "well if we're nothing more than animals, then people will act like it," as an excuse. The occasion that now finds Hovind blasting Shermer and the Skeptics Society is a fundraising dinner for the organization; he is infuriated that somehow he even received the mailing, listing the top ten myths about evolution. "Shame on you!" he says, finger wagging, to the Skeptics Society. He goes on to discuss how he's debated (and apparently won, in his mind) debates with Shermer in the past, and decides to attack these "myths" as actually being true! In regard to debating Shermer, he declares that he "will do it again (plus 10 other evolution experts to assist him) any day of the week with 90% of my...