Russ, from what I've seen with Hovind, there is a lot of hate against him. An awful lot of anti hovind comments on the worldwide web. I take many comments about him with a large grain of salt and am always interested to hear his side of it. Since they are just waiting to tear him down and any opportunity possible is jumped on.

The funny thing is, they make all kinds of claims about him, but true or not, they seem to have a problem facing him and debating him live.

Now, if it's about truth/evidence, one wonders why they don't take the time or effort to debate him and expose him for being the apparent "idiot" they seem to think he is. If in fact he's unqualified goof posing as an academic and doesn't know what he's talking about, why is it the "qualified" tend to avoid him, instead of clearing up the matter and wiping the floor with him in a fair debate? This should easiliy show up his lack of apparent "credentials and knowledge". In fact, he should be a push-over. The debate by the way has nothing to do with personal insults, it's about presentation/material and evidence. So why on earth don't more debate him? The invitation is always there.

Why do they instead take refuge in anti Hovind websites and comments? With their truckloads of evidence for evolution, they'd run him over easily. They continually resort to character assassination, his lack of credentials and tax evasion. If he makes a mistake? It's capitalised on and that "mistake" will continually be brought up.

I have in fact noticed that instead their anti hovind comments putting you off, you seem unaffected by them. Why? Because it's about the material itself is it not? not so much the "person". I am not saying Kent Hovind is full proof. Nobody is. But the material is presented clearly, matter a factly, with no lofty terminlogy to confuse or intimidate. It doesn't have to. In fact Kent Hovind is simply asking the tough questions and exposing long since disproven lies that continue to turn up in textbooks...I hardly see the issue with doing this and I wonder how he'd get away with it, since most of the science field are evolutionists? They should be able to get on there and easily defend their theory. That has yet to be done.