Hovind debates Reginald Finley on 10 September 2004
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On the 10 September 2004, Kent Hovind debated on Reginald Finley's Live with the Infidel Guy at 8PM EST. The show accepted callers who challenged Hovind's creationist claims.
Claims that Hovind makes (EvoWiki)
- Evolution is a religion
- Fossils sorted hydrologically
- Evolution is baseless without a theory of abiogenesis
- No new species have been observed
- Macroevolution has never been observed
- Small changes do not imply large changes
- Organisms come in discrete kinds
- Evolution requires as much faith as creationism
- Pasteur proved life only comes from life (law of biogenesis)
- The fossil record does not show evidence of reproduction
- There are barriers to large change
- Small changes do not imply large changes
- Taxonomy is an irrelevant construction
- Creationism has explanatory power
- The universe is 6000-10000 years old
- The earth is 6000-10000 years old
- Carbon dating gives inaccurate results
- Radiometric dating gives unreliable results
- Living snails were C14 dated at 27,000 years old (Hovind, K. Seminar Tape 7 and Seminar Notebook)
- Living mollusks were dated at 2300 years old (Hovind, K. Seminar Tape 7 and Seminar Notebook)
- A freshly killed seal was C14 dated at 1300 years old (also Hovind, K. Seminar Tape 7)
- Vollosovitch and Dima mammoths yielded inconsistent C14 dates
- Uniformitarian assumption is untenable
- Dragons were dinosaurs
- Man and dinosaurs coexisted
- Hovind used the Peruvian Ica stones to demonstrate this, even though they are generally considered frauduluent. [1]
- Fossils were deposited by the Flood
- Fossil order was determined by the Flood
- Complexity indicates design
- Haeckel's embryo drawings were proven wrong in 1874 and are still in biology books
- The human appendix is functional, not vestigial
- Human embryos don't have gill slits
- Haeckel falsified his embryo pictures
- Embryonic development is not evidence for evolution
- The Bible is inerrant
- Most experts now agree that Lucy was only an unusual chimpanzee
Other notes
- One caller brought up endogenous retroviruses. Hovind claims that you can pick up retroviruses via a pathogen.
- With regard to the snails and seal C14 argument, it is probably quote-mining.
