Saturday, May 9, 2009 - Review of Kent Hovind's Creation Series
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I really like Netflix. It is a wonderful way to rent movies and There are many side benefits, such as being able to watch things instantly and also access to documentaries that arre relevant to what I am teaching in our school.
I saw Kent Hovind's Creation series and thought it would be a great series to watch, because we believe in creation. Kent is a cynical smart-aleck, whose low opinion of everything not " Baptist" bleeds through. He has lots of useful information, and while he is entertaining to watch, I think someone else may have done a better job.
Kent does a lot of name-calling, and his ultra conservative lifestyle, represented by his opinions of fashion, namely, long hair, tattoos and body piercing, are insulting to those of us who do not share his viewpoint.
Hovind is fond of saying that the scientists, teachers and politicians are lying to us, or at the very least covering up the truth... This is a fact---but then, he puts excerpts from books on the screen, highlighting the points he is trying to make and doesn't leave them there long enough for you to see that he has taken things out of context and twisted them. He has done the same with scripture. I regularly paused the DVD playerr in order to read those things he posted on the screen, fully.
My husband- ever the visionary man who can spot a hypocrite from miles away was fed up with him after the first DVD. I figured we should test everything and hold onto the good... the 5th of 6 seminars was full of conspiracy theories about the government poisoning us and changing the weather, water and food supply to take over the world. I don't doubt that some of the information was true, but the conclusions he jumped to were outlandish. (chem trails, genetically modified food)
I didn't find him to be a very good example for my children and was dissappointed in that.
I did, however, get a good explaination of the dinosaurs and the flood from the 3rd and 4th DVD's,whitch were excellent.
I looked him up on the internet and found that both he and his wife are serving prison time for refusal to pay their taxes, saying that they work for God and therefore do not have to pay those. Sorry, Kent, Jesus told his followers to pay their taxes and even performed a miracle so that his disciple could pay his.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
When the worlld looks at this guy, it's no wonder they label us all crazy right-wing fundimentalist bigots!
Case for a Creator and Expelled were infinately better, with less off topic and irrelevant information.
Is there smeone out there who can reccomend a good film for this subject?
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Saturday, May 9, 2009 - hello :) |
 Posted by short |
I totally agree with your assessment of the man in question....
We much prefer Ken Ham's approach. Answers in Genesis has some amazing information!!!
Blessings
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