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<span>Kent's debate style has been, along with that of other young earth creationists, classified by [https://books.google.nl/books?id=DKHHBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Eristic&f=false C. A. Chinn and L. A. Buckland] as "eristic": a form of argumentation which focusses to refute the opposition (no matter what it is about) often by rhetoric, rather than searching for the truth of it by careful examination of the evidence. Those who excel using this debating tactic as professionals are better known as lawyers. He often challenges to debate multiple opponents as once. Something no serious person would do. The reason he does this is to [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence boost the appearance of his confidence] . When people who don't take him seriously (like everyone should) refuse to debate him, he calls them cowards, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy even though Kent has declined numerous offers for debates himself](see next paragraph). All of this shows that Kent sees debating as a game, rather than a medium for serious intellectual conversations. </span> | |||
=== References | Kent has somehow managed to get many people to debate him. <span>He even managed to get attention after his release from prison. Currently however, most of his opponents are internet nobodies (not including KC) arguing with him on Skype or google plus while he sits in his basement, as the broken shell of the man he once was. Back in his glory days, he debated so much, he even forgot to pay his taxes. He s</span>ometimes debated with people who are well-known like Michael Shermer. He didn't debate scientists, however. At best, he got college professors to debate him. In 1993, Kent announced he would debate the renowned evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould. S.J. Gould was contacted about this, to which he responded by saying that he had never heard about any man named "Kent Hovind", nor agreed to any debate. However, don't think that Kent didn't got the change to debate scientists. He did get offers from many scientists....however....those were offers for '''<u>written</u>''' debates, where his debating style would be less effective since the presence of scientists who can easily scrutinize his claims and the absence of the ignorance of an audience for him to exploit. It is thus no surprise that Kent has declined these offers, including the one from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(skeptic) Dave Thomas]. | ||
Recently (Summer of 2017) he has debated with the almighty King Crocoduck himself, twice (as the 30th of June. During both debates he has demonstrated his utter lack of scientific understanding, despite his claims of having taught as a high school teacher. The debates are frustrating to watch for several reasons. One of them is Kent Hovind's inability to stay on topic. Also when he has been shown to be wrong on a certain point or one of his questions are being answered, he responds with a red herring and or straw man fallacy, as an attempt to throw his opponent of course. [https://youtu.be/h8eHXUJbEDE?t=15m10s Case in point]: During the second debate (30th June) King Crocoduck and Kent both agreed that according to Einstein's famous (incomplete) equation E = mc<sup>2</sup>, mass can be converted into energy. Kent embarrassingly gave [https://youtu.be/h8eHXUJbEDE?t=15m56s "burning up a woodpile"] as an example of this, showing that he literally doesn't know what he was talking about. King Crocoduck quickly pointed out that his example is a energy being released from chemical potential energy, not mass being converted into energy. Kent disagreed that energy can be converted into mass, thereby showing he doesn't understand what the "=" part means of the equation. He asked King Crocoduck to show him an example of mass coming from energy, to which King Crocoduck responded by providing several examples. After a few excuses from Kent and a few corrections from King Crocoduck, Kent eventually saw no way out of this and just made up straw man, saying that [https://youtu.be/h8eHXUJbEDE?t=19m19s none of these things proved everything came from nothing]. Of course, the example wasn't meant to demonstrate "everything coming from nothing". It was meant to show that energy can be converted into mass, the very thing Kent asked for just a few moments earlier. Even though King Crocoduck repeatedly said he never said nor implied that "everything came from nothing", Kent kept using this straw man. Dishonesty at its finest. <nowiki/> | |||
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Revision as of 17:03, 1 July 2017
Basic Description
<infobox>
<title source="title1"> <default>Kent Hovind</default> </title> <image source="image1">
</image> <group> <header>Information</header> <label>Gender</label> <label>Scientific Name</label> <label>Positions</label> <label>Debating Against</label> <label>Skills</label> <label>Links</label> </group> </infobox> His name is "Dr." Kent Hovind. He [claims to have] taught high school science[1] for 15 years. He believes that the Bible is true and scientifically accurate. Ken somehow taught high school science for 15 years without knowing anything about science. It only took 15 years for the school master to notice that Kent had no qualification besides a diploma-mill fake PhD and fired Kent who then thought he could teach others about Dinosaurs.
But that didn't work as well so Kent decided to teach others about finance and taxation. This also didn't work and landed him a 10 years sentence in prison, for tax evasion. In prison Kent was a roommate with a 350 pounds gorilla named Bubba who taught Kent how to grow rocks in water to disprove evilution.
Upon his release Kent married an anti-vaxxer who as well has no former education or diplomas of any kind but lectures others on mercury in vaccines and how its all the corporations and pharmaceutical companies that are trying to make money.
Kent is a hair away from believing there are reptilian aliens in the government.
Family
Kent has a son named Eric Hovind who also inherited the derp gene from his father. Kent and Eric are now estranged and frequently send each other dried feces via the post office.
After coming out of prison Kent divorced his wife and married well known anti-vaxxer Mary Tocco. Mary Tocco also taught high school anti-vaxxing to gullible parents for 15 years.
The Hovind Theory
potholer54 has a great video on the Hovind theory...with music and everything.
"Dr." Dino Debating
Kent's debate style has been, along with that of other young earth creationists, classified by C. A. Chinn and L. A. Buckland as "eristic": a form of argumentation which focusses to refute the opposition (no matter what it is about) often by rhetoric, rather than searching for the truth of it by careful examination of the evidence. Those who excel using this debating tactic as professionals are better known as lawyers. He often challenges to debate multiple opponents as once. Something no serious person would do. The reason he does this is to boost the appearance of his confidence . When people who don't take him seriously (like everyone should) refuse to debate him, he calls them cowards, even though Kent has declined numerous offers for debates himself(see next paragraph). All of this shows that Kent sees debating as a game, rather than a medium for serious intellectual conversations.
Kent has somehow managed to get many people to debate him. He even managed to get attention after his release from prison. Currently however, most of his opponents are internet nobodies (not including KC) arguing with him on Skype or google plus while he sits in his basement, as the broken shell of the man he once was. Back in his glory days, he debated so much, he even forgot to pay his taxes. He sometimes debated with people who are well-known like Michael Shermer. He didn't debate scientists, however. At best, he got college professors to debate him. In 1993, Kent announced he would debate the renowned evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould. S.J. Gould was contacted about this, to which he responded by saying that he had never heard about any man named "Kent Hovind", nor agreed to any debate. However, don't think that Kent didn't got the change to debate scientists. He did get offers from many scientists....however....those were offers for written debates, where his debating style would be less effective since the presence of scientists who can easily scrutinize his claims and the absence of the ignorance of an audience for him to exploit. It is thus no surprise that Kent has declined these offers, including the one from Dave Thomas.
Recently (Summer of 2017) he has debated with the almighty King Crocoduck himself, twice (as the 30th of June. During both debates he has demonstrated his utter lack of scientific understanding, despite his claims of having taught as a high school teacher. The debates are frustrating to watch for several reasons. One of them is Kent Hovind's inability to stay on topic. Also when he has been shown to be wrong on a certain point or one of his questions are being answered, he responds with a red herring and or straw man fallacy, as an attempt to throw his opponent of course. Case in point: During the second debate (30th June) King Crocoduck and Kent both agreed that according to Einstein's famous (incomplete) equation E = mc2, mass can be converted into energy. Kent embarrassingly gave "burning up a woodpile" as an example of this, showing that he literally doesn't know what he was talking about. King Crocoduck quickly pointed out that his example is a energy being released from chemical potential energy, not mass being converted into energy. Kent disagreed that energy can be converted into mass, thereby showing he doesn't understand what the "=" part means of the equation. He asked King Crocoduck to show him an example of mass coming from energy, to which King Crocoduck responded by providing several examples. After a few excuses from Kent and a few corrections from King Crocoduck, Kent eventually saw no way out of this and just made up straw man, saying that none of these things proved everything came from nothing. Of course, the example wasn't meant to demonstrate "everything coming from nothing". It was meant to show that energy can be converted into mass, the very thing Kent asked for just a few moments earlier. Even though King Crocoduck repeatedly said he never said nor implied that "everything came from nothing", Kent kept using this straw man. Dishonesty at its finest.
References
- ↑ he may have just tutored a few students, citation needed
Super Powers
- Taught high school science for 15 years without knowing anything about science.
- Vulnerable to potholer54
- Masters the American tax code
