{"id":34,"date":"2006-09-10T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:33:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T14:33:46","slug":"sigh-hovind-gets-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Sigh … Hovind gets free press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Hovind got some free press for his fantasy park<\/a>. I don’t quite grasp the reason for the story in the first place. True science gets a one-sentence, weak refutation in the story, which shows a certain bias or laziness on the part of the reporter. What a crock!<\/p>\n

Hovind, an evangelist and former earth-science teacher, launched the amusement park in 2001 to promote young earth creationism — the belief that God created the Earth and all of its inhabitants in six days 6,000 years ago. Most scientists estimate that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would have been better to get an actual scientist to say something about the age of the Earth. At the very least, the sentence could have been phrased better, such as, “The concensus of the scientific community is that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, based on evidence gathered from several different disciplines such as geography and astronomy. Hovind’s ideas as presented in his park are not viewed as accepted, mainstream science.” Or something like that.<\/p>\n

Patricia Steele, a Christian from Tennessee who brought her three children to Dinosaur Adventure Land, said she hoped to equip her kids with arguments to refute evolution. For many Christians who take the Bible literally, evolution throws Scripture into question, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kent Hovind got some free press for his fantasy park. I don’t quite grasp the reason for the story in the first place. 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