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This post may be a little late but I feel a need to impart some information. (Perhaps a lurker or two will benefit)

5 weeks ago, I spent more than 6 hours listening to Hovind's lectures with the intention of listing his errors and debunking them on FR. I sat there with a pad of paper and a pen in hand. After 15 minutes of listening to the actual seminar (much of the start of the seminar was taken up by poor jokes and stealth adds) I had two pages of my 81/2 x 11 pad filled with errors and found myself falling behind in my transcription. I then began to pause the seminar every few seconds simply to enable my writing hand to keep up (remember - I was documenting errors only). Eventually I gave up, there were far too many errors to debunk within a reasonable time. Although I gave up documenting his errors within the first 30 minutes, I did force myself to listen to the rest of the seminars I had downloaded. It was quite an education into the mind and methods of a snake-oil salesman.

The arguments Hovind uses are deceptive, disingenuous and brilliantly designed to elicit and prey on the emotions of his audience rather than to encourage thinking. I found that what Hovind left out was in many cases was as misleading as what he included.