"DU trolls note: It's nice to see an event that drives the Darwinists, secular humanists, ACLU and the liberals under their respective slimy rocks."
I don't see any reason this event should upset anybody - they hold all kinds of optional evens at schools.
Now, Hovind is nutty but he's entertaining - if you haven't seen him its worth downloading a couple of videos.
He's entitled to free speech just so long as we don't teach junk science in science class.
That was also the basic thinking behind the law that Scopes was put on trial for violating.
Yeah, like say an ape evolving to man...I wouldn't call that Junk science as much as I would call it Pure T. B.S.!
Now, Hovind is nutty but he's entertaining - if you haven't seen him its worth downloading a couple of videos.Indeed:
Opened in 2001, Dinosaur Adventure Land sprung from Hovind's Creation Science Evangelism ministry, which began to evolve in the late '80s. CSE sells videos and audiotapes of Hovind's lectures and his debates with evolutionary scientists, along with books on "Evolution and the New World Order." (At least one of them, Fourth Reich of the Rich, alleges a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.) Hovind also points his followers to Citizens Rule Book, popular among antigovernment "Patriots"; Media Bypass, an antigovernment magazine with strong anti-Semitic leanings; and titles by America's leading authority on tax-dodging, Irwin Schiff, who was indicted on criminal tax evasion charges in March ... Two years ago, Hovind's "fine Christian friend," Joseph Sweet of the Joy Foundation, ran into similar trouble, sued by the feds for allegedly teaching folks how to evade income taxes.And:
Hovind, who runs the Creation Science Evangelism ministry from Pensacola, Fla., says the whole Bible is literally true and that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. While that may seem par for the creationist course, Hovind also sells anti-Semitic books like Fourth Reich of the Rich and has recommended The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a book blaming the world's problems on a Jewish conspiracy. Environmentalism and income taxes, Hovind says, are designed to destroy the United States and "bring it under Communism." "Democracy," he says, "is evil and contrary to God's law."His dishonest huckerism isn't his only trick. Race-hate, tax-evasion and subversion of democracy make him 'entertaining'.