RE: "Dr." Hovind refuted
February 19, 2013 at 10:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2013 at 10:36 pm by Cyberman.)
I've just run that shrinking/expanding Sun thing through the Hovind calculator, based on the following (generous) criteria:
This gives a Hovind Factor of 16 - "Partially Creotarded - Some very serious misunderstandings about reality, and a hint of zealotry beginning to rear its ugly head".
Even if we eliminate the mendacity factor and assume he was being totally honest, we still get a result of 8 Hovinds: "Pushing The Limits of Decency - starting to go beyond what is reasonable, but dishonesty or scientific illiteracy are becoming too obvious to ignore".
- Belief In Scripture: No doctrinal belief required = 0
- Scientific Illiteracy: No understanding or knowledge of area being discussed = 3
- Idiocy: Very funny in a very worrying way = 5
- Paradox: Statement is logical and self-consistent = 0
- Mendacity: Statement maker knows they are telling enough of a porkie to try to mislead a generally credulous audience = 2
This gives a Hovind Factor of 16 - "Partially Creotarded - Some very serious misunderstandings about reality, and a hint of zealotry beginning to rear its ugly head".
Even if we eliminate the mendacity factor and assume he was being totally honest, we still get a result of 8 Hovinds: "Pushing The Limits of Decency - starting to go beyond what is reasonable, but dishonesty or scientific illiteracy are becoming too obvious to ignore".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
