[jennyp]

I know these unfocused creation/evolution threads sometimes tend to devolve into flames, but some of the news items are so ... darn interesting!

[Senator Pardek]

I know these unfocused creation/evolution threads sometimes tend to devolve into flames

LOL!

[jennyp]

Crevo_list BUMP.

[PoorMuttly]

It was a Billion and 29...and she was ugly as hell.

...but it was dark and I was lonely. Later on...I found out that she was kind of stringy, in a raw chicken sort of way. What a life.

[BMCDA]

Mmmmm... Crevo threads!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Cold was killing dinosaurs long before the asteroid commonly thought to have been their downfall hit, according to scientists.

I'm suffering from Alzheimer's again, but in the last couple months I read a paper somewhere from a researcher who's been filtering fossils from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and believes that dinosaurs were already dying out as early as 100 million years ago due to the decreasing amount of oxygen in the air.

Fossil amber samples were giving results of 32% oxygen in the air at the time. The dinos couldn't handle the decreasing oxygen content of the air.

That blows my weapons of mass destruction theory right out.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Lost Neanderthal baby? What did they do, leave it with the Florida Department of Children and Families?

[longshadow]

Dr. DINO arrested?

Awwwww; say it isn't so.....

And he plans to represent himself in a criminal trial for Burglary, battery, and assault?

For his sake, he had best hope he can do a better job of discrediting the prosecution's case than he does the Theory of Evolution.

[shekkian]

The Universe might yet collapse in a devastating "big crunch". Physicists have shown that even though its growth is speeding up, it could still start to implode by the time it is only twice its current age.

Darn, and I just signed on a new house.

[jennyp]

Here's the arrest record from the Kent Hovind story:

ON 8-15-2002 AT APPROX 1400 HRS IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY FL, THE ABOVE DEFENDANT, DR KENT E HOVIND DID WILLFULLY AND INTENTIONALLY COMMIT THE OFFENSE OF BURGLARY, BATTERY AND-ASSAULT. ON THIS DATE DR HOVIND CAME TO THE RESIDENCE OF HIS TENANT AT 100 CUMMINGS ST WHERE HE MADE CONTACT WITH TRUDY OWEN AT THE FRONT DOOR AND ATTEMPTED TO PROVIDE HER WITH MONEY IN ORDER FOR HER TO RELOCATE RESIDENCY. TRUDY OWEN SAID SHE REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE MONEY ASKING DR HOVIND TO LEAVE AS SHE SHUT THE FRONT DOOR. DR HOVIND THEN FORCED THE FRONT DOOR OPEN, KNOCKING MS OWEN BACKWARDS AND ENTERED INTO THE STRUCTURE AND BEGAN YELLING LOUDLY AND ACTING IN A HOSTILE AND AGGRESSIVE MANNER, PUTTING V/OWEN IN FEAR FOR HER SAFETY.

VICTIM CHRISTOPHER KENUI, ALSO RESIDING AT THIS RESIDENCE, ATTEMPTED TO INTERVENE WITH THIS ALTERCATION, WHERE DR HOVIND THEN BECAME PHYSICALLY AGGRESSIVE TOWARD KENUI, WHERE CHRISTOPHER THEN PHYSICALLY WRESTLED HIM OUT OF HIS RESIDENCE AND ONTO THE FRONT PORCH THEN SLAMMING THE DOOR AND LOCKING IT AND CALLING THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO REPORT THIS INCIDENT.

UPON MY ARRIVAL, I INTERVIEWED V/TRUDY OWEN, V/CHRISTOPHER KENUI AND WA/ROENALINE KENUI, WHO ALL CONCURRED WITH THE SAME STATEMENT OF THE EVENT THAT PREVIOUSLY OCCURRED. I THEN INTERVIEWED DR KENT HOVIND IN REFERENCE TO THIS INCIDENT WHERE HE DID ADMIT TO FORCING HIS WAY INTO THE HOUSE STATING THAT THE RESIDENCE BELONGED TO HIM AND HE WAS MERELY RENTING THIS HOME TO TENANT OWEN AND FAMILY. DR HOVIND FURTHER STATED THAT HE WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT HE COULD ENTER THIS RESIDENCE ANY TIME HE WANTED THEREFORE. HE DID NOT FEEL THAT HE COMMITTED A CRIME. DR HOVIND FURTHER STATED THAT HE DID NOT ASSAULT MS OWEN AT THIS LOCATION AND THAT CHRISTOPHER KENUI DID IN FACT HAVE TO PHYSICALLY REMOVE HIM AFTER HIS REFUSAL TO LEAVE VERBALLY.

AT THAT TIME, DR KENT HOVIND WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST, TRANSPORTED TO THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY JAIL AND CHARGED WITH BURGLARY, BATTERY AND ASSAULT. BOND PLACED AT $1,000 AND RETURNABLE SET FOR 9-05-2002.

UPON MY DEPARTURE AT THIS LOCATION A SECONDARY WITNESS. PAUL JEWELL ARRIVED AND STATED TO ME THAT HE WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD DURING THE TIME OF THIS INCIDENT AND MERELY SAW DR HOVIND STANDING ON THE FRONT PORCH AT 100 CUMMINGS ST. HE FURTHER STATED HE DID NOT OBSERVE ANY ALTERCATION.

WITNESS STATEMENT FORMS WERE DOCUMENTED BY THE VICTIMS AND WITNESSES IN THIS INCIDENT TO BE TURNED IN WITH REPORT. BURK, DAVID KARL 312 ID ======================== JEWELL, PAUL DAVID W M 02/06/1975 Addresses (Current/Last Known is Listed First) 5270 N PALAFOX ST PENSACOLA FL 32503 Phone: (850)473-0277 Occupations (Current/Last Known is Listed First) Business: CREATIONS SCIENCE EVANL, Job Title:, Phone: 850 Entered: 08/15/2002

Note that witness Paul David Jewell, who says he saw Hovind standing on the porch with no altercation, is Kent Hovind's son in law & an employee at Hovind's Creation Science Evangelism.

At first I was willing to give Hovind the benefit of the doubt and assume he was trying to evict some bad tenants. But there is some speculation over just what the altercation was really about. Over at the Internet Infidels forum, "Skydancer" noticed that the two victims, Trudy Owen & Christopher Kenui, have different last names. Perhaps Kent Hovind had discovered to his horror that he was renting to people who were living in sin. Meanwhile "Anapsid" found that the address where the incident occurred is not listed as being owned by Kent Hovind, although he does own some property in the area, both in his name directly and as trustee of the "Faith Fellowship Baptist Church". Curious.