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Old 06-23-2003, 04:48 PM   #1
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Default Stars and Stripes on Hovind -- Attn Military and Vets

There is an uncritical article on Kent Hovind in Stars and Stripes:

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...&article=16184

If anyone here is in the military or is a military vetern you might want to send a polite letter to the editor pointing out problems with the "article."

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That article was something else. I found this particularly amusing:

�Evolution caused World War II,� he said.

Followed by (a few lines later):

"His qualifications to talk about the subject are questioned."

You think?
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For what little credit it's worth: They don't call him Dr. Hovind....

I can't imagine any editor let that article pass without at least a smirk.
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Liesl DeField said, �We�ve taught them creation. We�ve taught them the truth.�
Unless I want to know something about being a military wife, I'll pick someone else to determine what is truth.
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The Rat posted this one on Skeptic Friends. When I got done laughing, then feeling a bit sad about the low estate to which Stars and Stripes has sunk, I put up this link:

http://www.geocities.com/kenthovind/

For those who haven't seen it, it's Dr? Dino in a nutshell. You can almost hear him producing methane (from the wrong end).

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Is that a new porno version?


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"Evolution caused World War II,� he said.
He's quite right. No evolution, no primates. No primates, no Hitler. No Hitler, no World War II. Makes perfect sense to me...
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Actually, though Hovind is nuts, evolution IS just a theory.

So is gravity.

So is quantum mechanics.

So is special and general relativity.


But they are pretty good theories.
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Actually, though Hovind is nuts, evolution IS just a theory.

So is gravity.

So is quantum mechanics.

So is special and general relativity.


But they are pretty good theories.
Your point is well made, but evolution is more than a theory. That living thngs have evolved by descent with modification from common ancestors is a scientific fact. The theory of evolution is a scientific explanation for how this occurred.

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"Stars and Strips on Hovind -- Attn Military and Vets"


Is that a new porno version?


Are you sure that I was not just trying to cut back on
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BTW thanks GunnerJ for fixing the problem.
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