Incidentally, I ran the claims in the OP through the handy-dandy online Hovind Scale Calculator. Making sure to be extra-generous with the factors, I came out with a result of 68 Hovinds. The interpretation table gives the following:
The calculations include a Mendacity Factor, a rating of how honest (or not) the person making the claim is judged to be. Since this can be a subjective assessment, we can adjust the figures to remove this rating in the assumption of total, if misguided, honesty to give us the True Believer Rating. A purely honest creationist can never score higher than the maximum 20%.
SOD gets a TBR of 17.
Quote:60-89 - VenomFangTastic - not quite up in the fully Kentian levels, as there may be some slightly mitigating circumstances (youth or inexperience for example), but still a person who makes statements falling into this category can almost certainly be relied on to produce long winded and scientifically illiterate or self-contradictory arguments ex recto at a moment's notice.
The calculations include a Mendacity Factor, a rating of how honest (or not) the person making the claim is judged to be. Since this can be a subjective assessment, we can adjust the figures to remove this rating in the assumption of total, if misguided, honesty to give us the True Believer Rating. A purely honest creationist can never score higher than the maximum 20%.
SOD gets a TBR of 17.
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.'
