In Reply to: Re: who is Kent Hovind posted by Mr. Don on July 03, 2004 at 16:16:58:
I just remeber that DB claimed a 168 point IQ, blah, blah, blah.
I seriously doubt he ever took an IQ test. At his age, h eprobably only took the Army precursor to the Stanford/Binet exam, which only determined where the Army ought to put an individual as a soldier, based on things OTHER than raw intelligence.
His "intelligence", and so-called "wisom", was earthly, sensual and devilish" from the very start. He was a totally committed pervert from
very early on, and the alleged molestation by his Mexican maid at an early age was either fabricated, or an "enhanced memory" to show off another skill learned very early on; that of total moral blame-shifting!
DB, and all his so-called "high-command" leadership were basically UNeducated, and Berg's only attempt at science apologetics was the very WEAK and STUPID "Students, Stand UP!", and a few other stupidities, which were very weak apologetics, and wouldn't convince ANYONE of ANYTHING; basically.
So, DB INTENDED to "dummy down" his followers; the worse possible enemy to his demonic diatribe was a FUNCTIONAL (and praying & discerning) INTELLECT!
Like the hat says: "I think, therefore I left!".
The British custody case, etc., showed that promoting ignorance was a control tool of the cult. Bad PR.
The cult had used some rather weak generic, "below GED" level educational material. They realized they probably need to upgrade, in at least the "TV Homes" in the States, etc.
In the States, among the Evangelicals being duped about TF's true moral nature, Hovind is well thought of, and I can't really fault him. He recently upgraded his website (see http://www.drdino.com/index.jsp).
He's not bad. I don't think he's the best, but I can't fault him, just because TF wants to use him to pretend they are actualy THINKING CHRISTIANS, as we all know how proposterous that premise is!
I love truly Christian apologetics; both historic, back to the early Church Fathers (2nd generation disciples). I love to discuss it, if anyone's interested. I like to think of it as "God's fingerprints" on His creation (Romans 1:20--stuff that's both "seen", and "understood", etc.).