300 Creationist Lies
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I would like to make it clear that I am not a creationist. I find Kent Hovind as deceitful and downright stupid as you do.
However, lies Nos. 47 and 48 do have some basis in fact. The Captain and crew of HMS Daedalus did encounter a sea serpent: this was related in the Illustrated London News (I think). Also there was a story (also reported by the I L N) of a giant squid attacking a schooner called the Pearl near the coast of Sri Lanka and sinking it in the presence of witnesses. This was also mentioned by Arthur C Clarke in one of his Mysterious World episodes some years ago. (In case you may not know, Arthur C Clarke is a SF and science writer probably equal to Isaac Asimov. He is also credited with the idea of the communications satellite).
I am sorry I do not have the exact details to hand but I have seen mention of them in the past. This, of course, does not excuse KH from his typically sloppy reporting of any incident.

Terry Rigby

Hovind: "In 1848, Captain Peter MQuhae of the H.M.S. Deadalus, and his crew, watched a sixty-foot sea monster swim directly under their boat. The sailors on board said, Captain, please dont say anything about this. Dont write it in the log book for sure because we are going to get laughed at for the rest of our lives. If we go back to port and tell them that we saw a dinosaur, they are going to laugh at us."

Lie #47. The word, 'dinosaur' was coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842, to describe a specific type of prehistoric reptile. Prehistoric marine reptiles are not dinosaurs, neither are the airborne variety. It is highly unlikely, in my opinion, that a mere six years after Owen coined the word, uneducated sailors would be fretting over what was obviously some kind of large fish or whale, and calling it a dinosaur. Besides, if they were so insistent that the captain tell no one - how do we know it happened?

Hovind: "However, there are lots of stories of giant critters in the sea. There are stories of octopus pulling ships under water. There are many stories like that."

Lie #48. And it will stay a lie until and unless Hovind, or any creationist, offers some documentation for these "many stories."

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