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Continental Ignorance

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Ray Watkins
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I posted a Louis Black video a few weeks ago in which he made fun of people who believed that man and dinosaurs lived side by side. I mostly thought that he was exaggerating. As it turns out, he wasn’t. This wacky guy– “Charley” believes exactly that and he is not alone. Here Charley tries to prove that continental drift is actually evidence of the Great Flood and Noah’s Arc. I am not making that up. Like Black said, you can’t be kind about this kind of thing. Still, Charley is his own best parody.

Dr. Kent Hovind (aka Dr. Dino) is the probably the best known Creationist to argue that the Earth is not as old as science says, and that the fossils evidence must therefore illustrate that dinosaurs and people co-existed. Just like the Flintstones! Hovind and his wife were recently convicted of various tax fraud charges and he now contributes to the Creation Science Evangelism Blog from his cell. Here is his post from November 20, a few weeks after his conviction. You can’t make this stuff up. What a contrast these two are to Dr. King’s focus on poverty and justice. He must be turning over in his grave.


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One Response to “Continental Ignorance”

  1. Kevin Dorsey says:
    January 24, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    What does this video and this man, “Charley” have to do with Kent Hovind?

    The only mention of “Pangea” that I heard Kent Hovind speak about is its refutation.

    On that day, in eternity, we will all learn THE truth, regardless what you or I think.

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