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You know, people say: “Evolution is not a bad philosophy.” But at the same time, it was Hitler's religion during the Third Reich in Germany. Hi, my name is Eric. In this next seminar, Dr. Hovind exposes some of the terrible things that have been done in the name of evolution, ’cause dictators throughout time have used the evolutionary ideas to support their brutal tactics.
Seminar 5: The Dangers of Evolution
I taught high school science for 15 years, and now for 14 years I've been an evangelist traveling and doing seminars on creation, evolution, and dinosaurs. And tonight we are gonna share with you some of the dangers of this evolution theory. I don't leave my gorgeous wife and travel every week of the year because I like being gone. Folks, evolution is not just a dumb idea, it's a very dangerous philosophy. I've only got three things I want to cover, but it's probably gonna take several nights to do that.
Pretty simple. Ok, what is happening? Tonight as I speak, our president is announcing we are about to go blow up Iraq, I believe, right. The world seems to be coming unglued at the seams. There are wars and rumors of wars every place we look.
Kip said: “If there was a God, He wouldn't let me feel the way I do. There is no God, only hate.” On May 21, 1998, 15 year old Kip Kinkle, a student at Thurston high school (that's in Oregon, near Eugene), allegedly entered the school cafeteria, and fired more than 50 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle. 26 students were injured, 2 killed. Later, the bodies of his parents were found in his home. He was then arrested and taken into police headquarters, where he attempted to murder a detective during his questioning. Kip said: “If there was a God, He wouldn't let me feel the way I do. There is no God, only hate.”
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold made a video tape prior to the Columbine shootings, on that tape they said, talking about one of the football players: “He doesn't deserve the jaw evolution gave him. Look for his jaw, it won't be on his body.” Right after the Columbine shooting: “Almost instantaneously, 5 more students from within the Springfield School District were arrested for threatening to murder students, principals, or teachers. In the adjacent school districts, more students were arrested for violent threats, and in one case, an elementary school boy shot 5 of his classmates with a BB gun.” Could it possibly be that what we are teaching them is causing this behavior? You know, what you believe determines how you behave. If you are raised up in a head-hunting society, and you are taught from the time you are a boy, if you go off to war and shoot somebody, you ought to kill them and cut off his head and eat the brains because you get his spirit. I mean, if you really believe that, guess what you're gonna do when you go off to war? Your behavior is determined by your beliefs. What you believe determines how you behave. It's always been that way, and it's no different today. Could it be that this evolution theory is to blame?
This fellow said: “I myself have little doubt that in England it was the long-age uniformitarian Geology and the Theory of Evolution that changed us from a Christian to a pagan nation.”
The Bible says: “All things were created by him, ...and for him.” (Col. 1:16) God made a beautiful planet, beautiful garden and said: “Hey, fill it with people.” First thing he said to Adam, was a blessing. “Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth.” (Gen. 1:28) Go fill it up. It's a blessing. This is the first mention of the word, ‘blessing’. ‘Blessed.’ “Adam lived 130 years and had a son named Seth. And then he lived 800 years and had sons and daughters.” (Gen. 5:3-4) Hebrew tradition says they had 56 children in that first family. I don't know where they get that number, but in 800 years you could have a lot of kids. You've got nine in how many years, brother? 17 years, nine kids, one every two years. Yeah, in 800 years you could have a family of 400. I met a family from Minnesota with 20 kids, all of them under 20. It's cold in Minnesota. They had huge families back then; that was God's plan. Fill the earth with people. Jim Duggar, friend of mine, has 15 kids in 15 years. God blessed Noah and said “be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth.” (Gen. 9:1) “As for Ishmael, I've blessed him; twelve princes shall he beget.” (Gen. 17:20) “And they blessed Rebecca and said, be thou the mother of thousands of millions.” (Gen. 24:60) Now that would be a little much, ok, but I can imagine a few dozen. Children are a heritage of the Lord.
Satan wants to reduce the population.
The serpent tricked Eve in the garden of Eden. Satan wants to kill every human on the planet. And some of his followers and helpers down here are working at that goal right now.
There are four great questions that every single religion in the world tries to answer. Even atheism, which is a religion, you have to believe there is no God; there is no way to know that. The four great questions every religion tries to answer:
The way you answer these questions depends upon how you view the world. There are basically only two ways to look at this world.
There is no evidence whatsoever that any animal ever produced a different kind of animal, so why would anybody believe such a dumb idea? And, how can this be so dangerous? Well, we will cover some of the ‘isms’ in just a minute, but evolution is based on lies and bad science, there is no good science to back it up.
I was in a debate one time at University of West Florida, and the professor got up and he said: “Now, Mr. Hovind, you are claiming all these things are lies, and you are right, all these things have been proven wrong, but...,” he said, “I've got a question for you. You told us we got to take all this stuff out of the book, what are you gonna replace it with?” I said: “Folks, what he's trying to not say is, ‘We want the kids to believe in evolution, we have to give them some evidence, and all we have are these lies and you want to take these out of the book, so you better find some more evidence for my theory.’” I said: “Sir, if you don't have any evidence for your theory, I'm sorry, maybe you ought to consider getting a new theory. I could suggest one for you, if you'd like.” He did not like. He don't wanna hear about it, ok. All they have to support their theory are things that have been proven wrong many, many years ago. Here are some of the lies we covered in the first..., how many hours of this seminar so far. I'll just review them very very quickly:
 Evolution teaching finding its way into the schools and into acceptance
In 1925, Tennessee passed a law that said you cannot teach evolution, it actually banned the teaching of evolution in the public schools; it's called the Butler Act. The ACLU, which is the American Communist Lawyers Union, decided they wanted to test this law so they ran an ad in the paper, said: “We are looking for a teacher willing to claim that he taught evolution, so we can have a trial to try and get this law overthrown.”
Just about every year it is shown in public schools, here in Pensacola, where they try to teach the kids, the Christians are dumb and they lost the trial. They changed all sorts of things about that, and you ought to be up in arms over that being shown to your kids. You can sign a statement saying: “I don't want my child shown the movie Inherit the Wind. Have it notarized and taken into the school, they won't show your kid. You say: “It's against my religious convictions to lie to my kids and that movie is a lie,” ok. But I guarantee you it will be shown this year, and next year, and the next year. I saw it about four times growing up before I realized what a lie it was. You wanna get the material from Bryan College, there's their phone number or from George Sarrell who has an excellent article
In 1968, the last law banning evolution was overturned. Now keep in mind there were many laws against teaching evolution until 1968. There's never been a law against teaching creation. The laws banned evolution. In 1980, the state of Arkansas past a law and said we want balanced treatment. If the teacher teaches evolution they must also teach creation. You know, give it balanced treatment. The court in Arkansas, 8th Circuit Court, I believe, struck that down and said: “Nope, this law is unconstitutional.” They didn't say you couldn't teach creation, they just said you can't demand equal time. And the atheist started going around saying: “See, you can't teach creation.” That's not what the law said, that's not what the court said, they never said you can't teach creation. They just said you can't require that the teachers teach creation. If we passed a law in Florida that said: “The teachers are required to breathe.” I bet that law would be struck down. Because, I mean, you probably ought to breathe, but they can't require that you breathe, right? Right. And that's what happened with the Arkansas law. Then Louisiana passed a law requiring teachers to teach creation if they taught evolution; again, balanced treatment. Supreme Court struck this one..., it went all the way to the Supreme Court, Supreme Court struck it down. After the 1987 ruling by the Supreme Court, Stephen Jay Gould; who hated creationists, and had a set of my tapes on his shelf; I went up and visited his office. His secretary was there, she said: “Yeah, he's got your tapes right here, Mr. Hovind.” I never did get to meet him, he died a few years ago, he knows better now, he is no longer an evolutionist. But..., Stephen Gould said after the verdict, he said: “No statue exists in any state to bar instruction in ‘creation science’. It could be taught before, and it can be taught now.” Michael Zimmerman said, and he is an evolutionist, he said: “The Supreme Court ruling did not, in any way, outlaw the teaching of ‘creation science’ in public schools. Quite simply it ruled that, in the form taken by the Louisiana law, it is unconstitutional to demand equal time for this subject. ‘Creation science’ can still be brought intoscience classrooms if and when teachers and administrators feel it is appropriate. Numerous surveys have shown that teachers and administrators favor just this route. And in fact, ‘creation science’ is being taught in science courses throughout the country.”
William Provine said: “Teachers and school boards in public schools are already free under the Constitution of the USA to teach about supernatural origins if they wish in their science classes. Laws can be passed in most countries of the world requiring discussion of supernatural origins in science classes, and still satisfy national legal requirements. And I have a suggestion of evolutionists. Include discussion of supernatural origins in your classes, and promote discussion of them in public and other schools. Come off your high horse about having only evolution taught in science classes. The exclusionism you promote is painfully self-serving and smacks of elitism. Why are you afraid of confronting the supernatural creationism believed by the majority of persons in the USA and perhaps worldwide?”
This public school teacher said: “I'm a public school teacher, Mr. Hovind. I went to a conference today and we were all given a new science textbook to use in the conference. It's called Sciences by Trefil and Hazen, John Wiley and Sons. On page 611 it said this: ‘To what extent do you think that parents should have the right to decide which scientific theories and ideas are presented in schools? To what extend do you think parents ought to have the right to demand that opposing religious views be taught as well? Should the views of creationism, which are primarily based on one particular type of Christianity, be given special consideration? It is getting more difficult to say the truth all the time.” Teachers can teach creation science in the classroom if they want, there's never been a law against it. Not only can you teach creation science in the public schools, you can teach it right out of the Bible. There's no law against reading your Bible in public school or bringing your Bible to public school. Or you can teach or devote a class to religion and you can have the textbook be the Bible. We know the effects of what happened in ’63 when the Bible was taken out, and evolution was put in the schools, but we got deceived by the ACLU. In 1963, the Supreme Court banned the use of the Bible to get kids saved. Which is not good obviously, but it's a lot better than what the ACLU led us to believe. They did not throw the Bible out; we have thrown the Bible out because we have allowed ourselves to be deceived by the ACLU. You might want to get the website www.bibleinschools.net and get the information by Elizabeth Ridenour. States can require teachers to discuss evolution. They can do that. They set the state standards. The state school board or the legislator will rule and say: “This is what we want the kids to know by 3rd grade or by 5th grade or by 7th grade.” They have state standards, and they sometimes include evolution. The kid must know about evolution by 8th grade. Now the problem is the atheists are really good at packing that committee. That way you only have to have five or six atheists in the whole state and you can control what all the kids are learning. Then the Christians wait till the books are chosen to meet the standards and get in the classroom and then we complain about the books in the classroom. You are about three years too late. State standards are gonna be selected for Florida textbooks in the next two months. This is the time. It will affect the books that they buy in 2003*, September of 2003*. Now is the time to do something.
In their landmark decision back in 1963 the court held: “It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may be effected consistently with the First Amendment.” People say: “What about the separation of church and state, doesn't the Constitution say that?” There is no such phrase mentioned in the Constitution. That phrase is found mentioned in a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Baptist Association in Danbury, Connecticut. Correcting the textbooks
Adolf Hitler said: “Let me control the textbooks, I'll control the state.”
I went to a big university one time and spent probably an hour going through their computer search system looking for how many books they had on evolution. It was like 1,800 or 1,900 books about evolution. And then I searched to see how many books they had about creation, this is a big university library, not one book. I searched every author that I know and I know most of them. I went to the librarian and said: “I noticed you got 1,800 books on evolution but you There are some practical things we can do, folks, to fix this:
I've volunteered many times and I'd do it again. I will..., if you will send me your textbook I will check the pages that need to be torn out. I'll make a tape recording while I'm traveling someplace, and I'll hand you the tape and it will say, you know: “The information on page 84 is wrong, tear that page out; page 217 is wrong, etc.” And I'll list the pages. And if you tore the pages out of the book it won't cost the school one penny. I'll show ya, so simple. Because the first objection they're gonna say is: “Oh, this will cost the schools a lot of money.” Won't cost them a penny. How many of you would volunteer to tear the pages out of the books and bring your own scissors? Let me see? There you go. So when you go to your school board hand them a list of 500 names and say these people are willing, when would you like it done?” Won't cost a thing. Look, the book is not sacred it's made out of paper, you know. If the county bought it, it belongs to the school; if you wanna tear a page out that's perfectly fine. I was in a debate with a professor at university, I was just speaking at UWF here a year or so ago and I mentioned: “Tear the page out of the book.” And this one professor said: “I don't think we should deface textbooks.” I said: “Well, sir, if you were teaching math and you came across a book that said, you know, 2+2=5, what would you do?” He said: “I would tell the students to mark out the wrong answer and write in the right answer.” I said: “Uuuh, you would deface a textbook?” I said: “Now, sir, if you were teaching biology and you found a book that said the embryo has gills and you know that's proven wrong in 1874, what are you gonna do?” He said: “Well, nothing.” I said: “You wouldn't correct it?” He said: “No.” I said: “Then you, sir, are a hypocrite. And you have no right using tax dollars to lie to these kids. You ought to get a different job changing tires or picking peaches and work for a living for a change.” Guys like that burn me up, brother. Like a leach sucking on somebody else's blood that they built, you know.
There are different people around the country that buy these by the thousands and give ’em out to people in their schools. One guy from Santa Rosa County bought 3,000 of these books several years ago, gave them to all the kids in the county. They are gonna have a hard time teaching evolution for a while over there. Go to your school board and say: “Could you please vote to purchase this book to go along with our biology books so the kids can see the lies in their books.” If the school board buys them, great. If you get, you know, more than ten, you get them for $1 a piece. If the school board says: “No, we don't want those books in school,” then you run a full-page ad in your paper: “Stop by the following address and pick up the book the school board banned.” Now the kids will get it and read it. Mm-hum, yeah.
Did you know the publishers will publish a special book just for our state? If the committee got together and said: “Look, well, Glencoe we like your book; however, we want you to take out chapter 3, or take out the following pages...” Do you know how much money you spent just in one school district on textbooks? The publisher would be foolish to turn down a contract for ¾ million dollars. They'll publish a special book. They do it all the time for different states. Get on that committee and do something about it.
Here are some pitfalls you ought to watch for in your school. I've seen this so many times:
But if it is a good program you have to get a note to come, but if it is a bad program you have to get a note to not go. They don't want a level playing field, folks. And if you have a superintendent or a school principal that tries that one you ought to help him get a different job too. Put the pressure on, you know, he needs to find a new job. Maybe in a new county some place. Some practical steps you can do: [converting teachers]
Handle evolution in class:
I had one guy call me up one day, he said: “Brother Hovind, my second grade daughter has watched your videotapes probably fifty times, she can quote them.” I don't know why kids watch the same tape over and over and over and over. He said: “My second grade daughter's teacher just called me, and she said: “Sir, every time I talk about something in the class having to do with evolution, your daughter stops me and says: ‘Oh teacher, that's not right.’ And the teacher said: ‘I just want you to know I'm gonna skip evolution for the rest of the time this girl's in my class.’” My first thought was, Yeah, this is great. And then I thought, why are we sending second graders off to war? Why aren't the parents fighting this battle? You know a second grader ought to be able to go to class, read the book, and believe what they are taught. Why are we allowing lies in the textbooks, why are we allowing liars to teach? Don't lie to the kids.
Some practical steps: [helping teachers]
[Practical steps to change schools:]
The Bible says: “The fear of man bringeth a snare.” (Prov. 29:25) And we've got a bunch of Christians that are scared to do anything for fear somebody might not like them. Duh..., we are supposed to be Christians you know. They didn't like the disciples very well or Jesus himself, did they? Our job is to do what's right, leave the results up to Him. Ok.
That's what got my whole ministry started, brother. Hugh and I were working together at a factory, an article came out in the newspaper that said: “Dinosaur bones are found from 80 million years ago.” And I wrote my first ever letter to the editor. I had never written a letter to the editor before. I said: “These dinosaur bones were from the flood of Noah, 4,400 years ago.” Oh man, you would have thought I shot the sacred cow. For the next six or eight months here in Pensacola I got called every name you can imagine in the paper. And I wrote letters back and forth and other people wrote letters. Finally the university asked me to come do a debate and a couple churches asked me to come speak, and now it's 14 years later and I've got 30 people on my staff and got 20 calls a week, Martha?, asking me to come.. 55... It's crazy, there's a war going on. Get in! Find something to do.
Now, if you're gonna do something, you be prepared for opposition from the enemy. Satan protects his evolution theory with a vengeance. This is the foundation for all sorts of things.
So, don't think it's going to be an easy road. There are some things you can do. Cut the pages out. Get something done in your area. There's all kinds of practical steps; you can watch our video 4 for other stuff like that. Evolution foundation philosophies
Alright, why is this theory dangerous?
All the effects of evolution that I know of are evil and wicked.
What do you expect? This theory has led directly to the rise of communism, humanism, Marxism, Nazism, socialism, and the coming New World Order. We are gonna cover more on that tomorrow night. The dangers of this evolution theory. Folks, it's not just dumb, it's dangerous. You are gonna be shocked to see how many people have died because of this theory. Why did we fight the Vietnam War? Why did we fight World War II? Why was World War I fought? Why are we fighting against communism? How many people did Hitler kill? How many did Stalin kill? Cover all that tomorrow night.
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His own people, he killed them. Why, why would somebody do that? 
Why have we had a nearly 1,000% increase in violent crimes since I was a boy? I remember the days when you did not have to lock your house. We'd go off on vacation for two weeks, and never..., I never had a key to my house growing up, never did have a key. I don't know if they even had one. You didn't need one in those days. Why would there be such a horrendous increase in unwed birth rates? So much of our moral structure is just simply unraveling. What on earth is happening? 
Hmm, these two boys were very strong believers in evolution. They did the shooting on Hitler's birthday on purpose. They shot Isaiah Shoels just simple because he was black.
Huh, this textbook says: “Natural selection causes evolution.” Well, just what is this natural selection? Oh, you see Adolf Hitler thought he would speed up the process by eliminating the inferiors. Hitler honestly thought he was doing the world a favor, so did Joseph Stalin, so did Pol Pot. Why do people do these things though, what is wrong with our thinking? 
This textbook says: “You are an animal and share a common heritage with earthworms.”
In the first couple of seminar tapes we talked about a variety of topics, like the big bang theory, how it's a big dud. We talked about the garden of Eden, and we talked about why the earth cannot be billions of years old, and why did the people lived to be 900 years old before the big Flood came. We talked about dinosaurs, and students are being lied to about dinosaurs, they did not live millions of years ago. And on tape #4 we talked about a whole bunch of lies in the textbooks. Now, here we are gonna talk about what's happened in the last 150 years since evolution became a popular theory, what on earth is happening, and what you can do about it. We'll get to that eventually. We are gonna review some of what we covered on tape #4, some of the lies in the textbooks, and then go on into how it carries into some practical steps we can take, what do you do about it. 
We covered in the last sessions how that James Hutton wrote a book in 1795, and he said: “The earth is millions of years old.” Now during the late 1700s most folks believed the Bible, and most folks thought the earth was about 6,000 years old. ‘Cause if you add up the dates in the Bible you are gonna get about 6,000; 4000 BC. Not millions. So James Hutton came along and caused people to doubt the earth was 6,000 years old. Then, his book had a very strong influence on a lawyer from Scotland named Charles Lyell. Charles Lyell wrote a book in 1830, and in his book he developed what we call today the geologic column. Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic. 
You know, maybe you say the movie, Jurassic Park, named after the Jurassic layer. This whole thing was made up by Charles Lyell in 1830, and the geologic column does not exist any place in the world, except in the textbooks. It's pure imagination, it doesn't exist. But all of evolution theory is based on that dumb geologic column, made up in 1830. 
Darwin's philosophy was strongly influenced by people like Charles Lyell, people like Thomas Malthus. Malthus had written a book that said: “There are more babies born than can possibly survive, so it's best if the weakest die off.”
James Hutton's book made people doubt the earth was 6,000 years old. Along came Charlie Lyell and people began to doubt the Flood, ’cause instead of the Flood making all those layers they said: “Oh, maybe each layer is a different age.” And then along came Charlie Darwin, and people began to doubt the Creator. And so by the mid 1800s, the Western World at least was left in a bad situation; they said: “Well, if there is no God, who's in charge? Well, it must be us.” This led directly to the rise of humanism. Humanism is the teaching that there is no God, so we must be God, we make the rules, we decide what's right and wrong. For the next 50 years, after Darwin's book came out, many ‘ism's’ arose in the world: Marxism, Nazism, communism. These things..., communism would have been just a footnote in the history books if it hadn't been for evolution coming along at the right time. We never would have heard of communism, most of us wouldn't. If it hadn't been for Charles Darwin coming along and giving justification to that dumb idea of communism. 
If there is no God, we are in trouble, ’cause we are hurdling through space at 66,000 miles per hour and nobody is in charge. Pretty scary thought. 
Satan's plan is to reduce the population to zero. He hates humanity, exactly the opposite of Christianity. He wants to promise secret knowledge so that: “you can learn something that nobody else knows.” That's what all the lodges promise too, by the way; some kind of secret knowledge. Use the teaching of evolution to get people to accomplish his goals and have people go to hell forever. Satan wants to reduce the population. 
See, God's plan is to fill the earth with people.Satan wants exactly the opposite. The Bible says God formed it to be inhabited. It was very different in the pre-flood world. We covered that in Seminar #6. God saw everything and it was very good; that's perfect; that's the way I want it. Satan's plan is to put it back to zero. 
And then the Lord said to the serpent: “That's it fella, you're going to crawl on your belly for the rest of your life.” And the then Lord said: “I'll put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her said; it shall bruise thy head.” (Gen. 3:14-15) Satan knows some seed of the woman is going to bruise his head. He didn't want that to happen so his plan apparently is to try to kill every human being on the planet. He wants to kill everybody. Remember when Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus in Bethlehem? What did he do? He slew all the children: “Let's just kill them all to be sure to get the right one.”
probably would have killed me many times growing up. Some of you would have killed your kids too, right? Peter Singer said: “Christianity is our foe. If animal rights are to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.”
So why is this theory dangerous? Evolution, I am convinced after studying this stuff for 30 some years, evolution is absolutely the foundation for communism, Marxism, Nazism, socialism, racism. We'll get into some more of that in a minute. Number one, I think evolution is dangerous because it's bad science based on lies. There is no scientific evidence to back up this evolution theory. We have been offering $250,000 for a long time at our ministry for somebody who can give us some real scientific evidence for evolution. It is funny, brother, to see the people try and turn stuff in. One guy said: “I've got proof for evolution.” I said: “Really, what do you have?” He said: “Well, I'm working in the laboratory right now and we have developed soybean plants that are resistant to frost.” I said: “Man, that's good, that will really be handy.” I said: “What did you start with?” He said: “Well, soybean plants.” I said: “Oh, what do you have now?” He said: “I've got a whole new species.” I said: “Of what?” “Of, ah, soybean plant.” I said: “I'm sorry, sir, that's not evolution, ok. That's a variety of a soybean plant. And it's interesting and I'm glad you are able to do that, but that's not evolution.” 
This textbook says: “Evolution Is a Fact; Evolution is a fact, not theory. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.” Sounds like he's open-minded for discussion, doesn't it? This is not a fact, folks, evolution is a mantra, they say this over and over and over hoping it will become true. That's all it is, they just keep repeating it, oh hope, evolution is a fact, it's a fact, it's a fact. Well, you better define what you are talking about with evolution; we do that on videotape #4, the six different meanings of this word, ‘evolution’.
This textbook says: “Evolution has evidence from fossils, from structure, from molecular biology, from development.” Any evidence that is used to support evolution has been proven wrong. I've said many times: “I'm not trying to get evolution out of the schools. I just want the lies out of the textbooks.” We almost got a bill passed in Arkansas a couple of years ago, and I went up to Arkansas and testified before the senate, before the House of Representatives Committee that is, that was looking at this bill HB2548, I believe it was. And it was, the bill simple said: “Arkansas will not use tax dollars to purchase materials if they contain knowingly fraudulent information.” We're not gonna buy books that have lies in them, and it gave a few examples like some of the examples I gave in my seminar. If it says the embryo has gill slits we're not gonna buy it. I stood up and testified for 45 minutes before this committee. After I got done the ACLU lady; uh woman, I mean; she got up and she said: “Folks, this is obviously an anti-evolution bill.” One of the representatives said: “Ma'am, evolution is not mentioned in this bill. All this bill says is that we are not gonna buy books if they have lies in them, and these things are lies so we are not gonna buy that book. How can you say this is an anti-evolution bill?” And she said: “Everything mentioned in this bill is used to support the evolution theory.” And the guy said: “Well, Ma'am, is it true that these things mentioned here are false?” She said: “Well, yes, but... obviously this is an anti-evolution bill.” She knew full well. If you took all the lies out of the textbooks there would be nothing left to support the evolution theory.
Let's give a little bit of the history of what really happened. In the 1800s almost all the textbooks were thoroughly packed with information about creation, Christianity, godly teaching, kids memorized Bible verses. I remember in public school in Illinois growing up. We memorized Bible verses and said prayer every morning. Didn't hurt the kids a bit. Helped them quite a bit. Back then kids got in trouble for their own spit wads. Today it's for bringing guns and shooting people. It's a different world, and some of you older folks know what I'm talking about, it has changed radically. 
A guy named John T. Scopes volunteered. He said: “I don't know if I taught evolution or not, but I did sub for a biology class one day, and I think all we had was a study hall, but if you want me to go testify that I taught evolution, I'll do it.” So John Scopes went on the trial, it lasted ten days in the hot July Tennessee summer. After ten days, John Scopes was found guilty of breaking the law. The law said: “You can't teach evolution”, he claimed he did, so he was found guilty. He admitted he did. He was fined $100, case was over. Later the fine was overturned on a technicality, but the judgment was not overturned. The evolutionists lost the Scopes Monkey trial. If you wanna read the entire story about what really happened, you can see it right here in this book The Scopes Monkey Trial, The World's Most Famous Court Trial. 
And by the way if there is a movie circulating around your school called Inherit the Wind you better be real careful about that, that's a dangerous movie. That does everything they can..., it twists everything about the trial to make the Christians look dumb. 
You want to read word for word everything that was spoken there, here it is, the court transcript, verbatim. You can get it from Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee. The Dayton Courthouse is still there with a big museum where you can go to and see where it actually happened. If you go north of Chattanooga about, I don't know, 70 or 80 miles, you can get to Dayton, Tennessee. I've been through there a bunch of times. There is a good book exposé about the Inherit the Wind movie that circulates around. 
about the Inherit the Wind, what really happened in the book; the real trial, compared to the Inherit the Wind movie, which is just baloney. Or you might want to get the book Ride to Glory; you can get it through our ministry. I don't read novels much, but this one is incredible. This guy said: “What if the Scopes Trial was redone now, you know, 21st century, at a modern university?” Pfew..., brother I couldn't put it down. I mean, I read a lot of books, but this one I never should have started, man. I didn't sleep for four days trying to finish it. I wasn't quite that bad, but....
Eugenie Scott is the president of the National Center for Science Education. Boy what a lousy name. They aren't in favor of science; they are in favor of defending evolution is all. She said: “The Supreme Court decision says only that the Louisiana law violates the constitutional separation of church and state: it does not say that no one can teach scientific creationism, and unfortunately many individual teachers do. Some school districts even require ‘equal time’ for creation and evolution.”
I spoke in Berkeley last November, Berkeley, California, that's where these guys we're located. I went and visited the National Center for Science Education. It's a little bitty storefront building; they had, I think, four or five employees, all crammed in this little building. I thought, this is the National Center for Science Education! Yeah, property is expensive in Berkeley, I understand, you know, good place for them. I went in there, they didn't know who I was, I didn't tell them my name. I went in there and, “Hey, what kind of information do you guys have here? I used to be a science teacher.” And they began giving me pamphlets and articles and stuff, you know. Finally one of the guys said: “Your voice sounds familiar, what's your name?” I said: “Kent Hovind.” He said: “I thought so.” They taped a piece of paper on the floor that says: “Kent Hovind stood here.” And I understand they won't walk on it; they walk around it. Hahahah... One of the guys came to all ten hours that I lectured at Berkeley and asked me question after question after question. Look, these folks are not the enemy. Now, they do work for him, but they are not the enemy, ok. Satan is the enemy. They are just blinded that's all. They are willingly ignorant like the Bible says. But even the National Center for Science Education knows that it's ok to teach creation if you want. 
Provine said: “Shouldn't students be encouraged to express their beliefs about origins in a class discussing origins?” If you are discussing origins then lets discuss origins. But see, in the mind of the evolutionist, your answer must be naturalistic. Suppose I said: “I want you to explain how computers came to be, but you can not use man as your answer. I want a naturalistic explanation of how computers came to be.” Well, you're dead in the water right up front because of the definitions I gave. And the evolutionist says: “We have to explain how the world got here but we can't use supernatural as an explanation.” Well, duh. And what we got here is like two computers arguing with each other “Does man exist?” They can't see him, they can't touch him, they can't feel him, but he does exist. You see it's obvious the Creator would be outside of the creation. He is above and beyond. He is not affected by what He created. God created time, space, and matter. He is outside of time, space, and matter. Then God is not affected by time, this is not 2003 in heaven, there's no time. And after we get to heaven one of the first things you are gonna do is flip your watch off and fling it over the side. You won't need that; there is no time there. We sing all these songs you know; when we've been there 10,000 years; that's baloney. That's a good song, I like it, but we are not gonna be there 10,000 years. We are just gonna be there. Now my brain can't handle that thought but, you know, I can think about thinking about it. 
She helps people start Bible classes in their public school. “Preacher, how would you like to go every day and teach a Bible class to the public school kids at Taylor and Escambia High?” Wouldn't that be awesome? You can do it. She knows how to cut through all the red tape and get it done. ACLU, well we can talk a long time about that. Call bibleinschools.net, get a hold of Elizabeth or get the book from us, Teaching Creation Science in Public Schools. And, you know, it is certain fine to do that. Many schools do. 
The states cannot require them to discuss creation. It's already been tried many times, and I've seen so many people waste enormous time and money on an effort to force creation into the schools. I'm telling ya, you are wasting your time. It's not gonna happen, and the atheists love it when a campaign gets started and say: “We're gonna make the schools teach creation.” They love that. They just let you spend all your money and waste all your time and then defeat you in the last five seconds. You are not gonna go anywhere. “The teachers may discuss creation if they like in their class.” 
They have always been allowed to do that. You might want to get a hold of the website www.textbookreviews.org, Mel Gabler, they for 40 some years have been doing research on public textbooks and what's being taught. Mel said: “Courts allow states to require discussing scientific weaknesses in evolution theory but not requiring discussing evidence for creation.”
“Teachers already possess the flexibility to present a variety of scientific theories about the origins of mankind”... and are “free to teach any and all facets of this subject.” 1987 Supreme Court. The court further ruled: “Teaching a variety of scientific theories about the origins of mankind to school children might be done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the effectiveness of science instruction.”
What's happened over the years, several different people have taken it upon themselves to survey the textbooks and see how much evolution is in this book. These guys did a survey of all the biology books used in 1991, and they found out the one used by Merrill called Biology: An Every Day Experience only had 2.9% of the text devoted to evolution. It really wasn't talked about much. However HBJ had 15.6%, they really crammed evolution down the throat of those kids. I've seen books today that had nearly 30%. Well, if I was on the committee to select textbooks this year, I would pick the least poisonous book I could find. And then I would write to the publishers of the other ones and say: “Hey folks, we did not pick your book this year, because...,” and spell out your reasons. And then I would write to the one I did pick and say: “Hey fellows, we did pick your book this year because you got the least amount of evolution; however, we would like that out also; and we wanna warn you, if we find another one next year that has less, we will buy them.” You see folks there is only one language these textbook publishers speak, the only language they speak is money. Now if you were the CEO at HBJ, Harcourt Brace Jovanich, and you got letters from all over the country from people, saying: “Hey we did not buy your book this year, because...” Guess what you are gonna do next year. Only language they speak brother. 
You wanna get an excellent book on some of the lies in the textbooks to see what you ought to be watching for. Get this one here by Jonathan Wells, excellent book on Icons of Evolution, or you may wanna get the book by the Gablers, What are They Teaching Our Children. They've spent 40 years discussing lies in the textbooks and what you can do about it, excellent ministry in Longview, Texas. Go to www.textbookreviews.org or to www.crsc.org
You'd be interested to know that in the 39 years of work we have never seen publishers so sensitive, or schools so receptive, to our textbook reviews and ranking. We are pleased to recommend Harcourt and Scott Foresman elementary science series. They are much less dogmatic on evolution than the others we've reviewed.”
Well, this chart shows how the atheist have rated the different states in America on how well they teach evolution. They think here in Florida we're doing a lousy job of teaching evolution. Yeeh. They think the folks in Minnesota, where I was yesterday morning, are doing a wonderful job teaching evolution. You ought to be ashamed of yourself in Minnesota, get that junk out of your textbooks, ok. 
You can get creation materials and put them in your library. Bert Wagoner up in Iowa knows how to cut through all the red tape and get this done. Get a hold of Bert and say: “Well, how do I get public schools to accept creation books?” One guy wrote me a letter and said: “Dr. Hovind, your video series was bought for our local high school, Waverly High in Ohio. When I went to check out video #5, I found someone had hidden the box of seminars and debates unopened and underneath a desk by a back wall. I was told by the librarian that she was told not to put them out for the students to find. My 18-year-old daughter witnessed this. We were very upset but I told her it was proof that the enemy was trying to void and hide the truth. My daughter has since graduated and I don't know if those tapes are available to students or not.”
don't have any books on creation, why is that?” She said: “There is too a good book in here on creation. I put it in here myself. It's from my church, the Watchtower Society.” Oh brother, we've got one Jehovah's Witness book in here and 1,800 teaching evolution. And then they brag about being a liberal university and giving the kids a liberal education. You're lying. A liberal education is when you look at all sides. Let's just discuss all sides and then decide where the truth lies. They don't wanna compare evolution with creation because evolution looks stupid next to the truth. 
You can give the kids my little Brainwashed book. 
Florida has a law, they've changed the number now; it used to be 233.09E I believe, but they've changed it so people couldn't find it I guess. It's now “Florida Statute 1006.35 Accuracy of Instructional Materials.” Do you know, Florida, State of Florida Legislature can vote to recall books if they are not accurate? They can write letters to the publishers and demand that they change the books. The laws on the books, folks. The textbooks are supposed to be accurate, but they're not. They contain 50 some lies in every textbook I've seen. Get the pages out! Texas has a law requiring textbooks to be accurate.
“Textbooks shall be adequate and current.”
You can also..., parents be aware that your kids can be exempted from anything you don't want them taught. If you don't want your kids taught evolution you sign a little paper that says: “I do not want my child taught evolution; it is against my religious convictions.” Have it notarized, signed, and give it to the school principal, the teacher, superintendent. And if they do teach your kid evolution or if they say: “Oh, you've got to stay in class.” Then you can simply say: “Do you discriminate against people because of their religion?” Oh, that'll get their attention. You can e-mail our office, we got a guy that works just..., I pay him to work for us. If you want..., we ask folks: “Say, give a donation please, I'm gonna,” you know, “pay this paralegal a bunch of money.” But if you are having trouble in your school e-mail mauryadkins@hotmail.com, or just our office if you can't get a hold of him, and we'll have people take care of this, you know, if the school gives you a hard time about making your kid learn evolution. We can fix that. See, if you don't know your rights you might as well not even have them. 
Roger DeHart, science teacher at Burlington-Edison High School in Seattle, was told he could not inform students of errors in the textbooks, just simply by passing out current science journals. If there was a current science journal that said this is wrong, he couldn't tell his students because in the book it said it was right. Some of these lies have been proven wrong 100 years ago. )
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Dean Kenyon was a tenured professor in San Francisco at the University. He'd been teaching for years. He wrote books about evolution; how wonderful evolution was. He was the poster boy of the evolutionist. And then one day he got converted and they fired him, but he said: “Hey, I've got 20 years you can't fire me.” They said: “Ok.” They put him in as a lab assistant. You know washing test tubes. Had to go through a whole big law suite just to get his job back. Simply because he doubted Darwin's theory.  |
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