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Eric Hovind: UFOs are demonic activity

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Quotes from a show hosted by Eric Hovind, son of creationist Kent Hovind.

On dinosaurs:

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Paul Taylor: Yeah, exactly, it’s fascinating. I’m really not prepared to say that dinosaurs actually are extinct. As I said I’ll go so far as to say I think they probably are, cause I haven’t seen any, but they have gone extinct, it’s only fairly recently. You know, you can certainly find historic accounts of people having seen what they might refer to as dragons. Even as recently as two hundred years ago, there’s an account of a civil war battle, sorry I should make clear, English Civil War [Laughter], not the American Civil War, the English Civil War battle, the battle of [indiscernible 00:06:21] which although is in the English Civil war actually took place in Wales. And after the battle in which there were a lot of people dead on the battlefield, there are some eye witnesses who wrote about it at the time, who reckon that this large huge bird without feathers, this dragon type thing, swooped over the battlefield and was sort of it was obviously [indiscernible 00:06:42] eating thing it was having [indiscernible 00:06:44] of dead bodies, a rather gruesome story but the description sounds very alike a Pterodactyl type
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Eric Hovind: What they already believe. We’ve mentioned several times the book Dire Dragons, the new one by Vance Nelson which does a great job of covering dinosaurs throughout history with mankind. It’s impossible for a couple of reasons for an asteroid to kill them, because the asteroid, they say, was millions of years ago. The earth isn’t millions of years old. And second, they’ve lived with man, as is very very evident.
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On UFOs:
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Paul Taylor: The abduction has ceased, and it really does indicate that these particular small number of cases are of demonic activities

Eric Hovind: Yeah

Paul Taylor: And not aliens from outer spaces. And in fact, Gary says that the same sort of visitations is in the Middle Ages when people were abducted by fairies or goblins or whatever. It’s just in a new guise.

Eric Hovind: Wow. Well it’s a very fascinating topic, and it’s easy to get deep into that topic real quick. And to get into all that conspiracy stuff that’s out there, the UFO’s and the aliens, and government, and demonic activity. I’m, I right now side on the idea of it was probably, it’s probably demonic activity.
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Quotes from transcript
 
Oh dear... doesn't it make you go

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ah yes, I well remember the english civil war of 200 years ago.
Well to be fair, the transcript says an "account of a civil war battle"... It's possible that that "account" was written 160 years after the war had ended, thus giving plenty of time misdirection for the carrion crows on the battlefield to have lost their feathers, grown in size and become the iconic mythical symbol of Wales (the Dragon). :D
 
Well to be fair, the transcript says an "account of a civil war battle"... It's possible that that "account" was written 160 years after the war had ended, thus giving plenty of time misdirection for the carrion crows on the battlefield to have lost their feathers, grown in size and become the iconic mythical symbol of Wales (the Dragon). :D
Some quick searching doesn't show any such legend; perhaps Hovind is indulging in the traditional god botherer pastime of Making Stuff Up? Or has anyone heard such a story?
 
Well his dad sucked at being a biologist, so his failings on history, palaeontology, and logic shouldn't surprise anyone.
 
A large part of me wants father and son to one day just stand up and go "just kidding!"

alas...
 
Some quick searching doesn't show any such legend; perhaps Hovind is indulging in the traditional god botherer pastime of Making Stuff Up? Or has anyone heard such a story?
Creationists, making stuff up?
Whatever next. :)

I couldn't find anything about it either. Though stories of dragons are popular in Wales.
 
King Charles: Hold up, you knights! {testily, to his aide} Where the deuce are we?

Aide: We're where we should, be sire: the village of Indiscernible.

KC: Looks like a bloody empty field to me! Where are the enemy, then?

Aide: I...don't know, sire. I'm sure the appointment was for ten.

KC: Probably couldn't find Indiscernible. What sort of bloody name is that, anyway?

Aide: Um...what you want to do, then?

KC: {Thinks for a moment} Hmmm. Right. Make up some codswallop about dragons and things--this is Wales, isn't it?

Aide: I think so, sire.

KC: ....some bloody idiotic story and spread this around. Say we had the battle, demonic dragons, you know the drill.

Aide: Yeah, right, got it. Erm....want to come back to my place with me?

KC: Right, you're on.
 
The entire transcript is a fascinating read.
I especially liked
...just about, probably about 95% of kids in America at least, grow up in the school system, learning about dinosaurs and the first thing they learn about dinosaurs is they lived, you can probably say it with me, millions of years ago, right? And that’s the problem, they’re learning to doubt God’s Word before they can read God’s Word. ...
 
I think it was the creationist author Henry Morris who wrote that the craters on the moon were the result a battle there between Satan and Michael the Archangel. If they can believe that, they can believe anything.

Steve S
 
I think stupidity is a damn fine explanation for it.

Hanlon's Razor, isn't it?

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I think that's a fine signature, actually.
 
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UFOs....Demons...It's all so clear now. When the Nazis went to Hell, they took their rocket scientists with 'em....
 
I blame the parents.

I was raised in a creationist fundamentalist religion. Was taught UFO's were the doing of demons since Earth was the only planet in the universe that fell to sin. And yes was taught the Earth only had life for the last 6000 years and the dinosaurs only existed before the flood. Carbon dating and all other dating methods were faulty.

That my parents and millions of other seemingly brilliant people believed in it seemed to give it credibility. But then I studied astronomy and it all fell apart, though it took years to undo the brainwashing.
 

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