A327-Hovind.txt

Graham L. Kendall
Modified  6/26/2002
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I became a Christian at the age of sixteen.  I was raised in a Lutheran Church,
a Mennonite Church, and a Methodist Church; we also visited the Catholic Church
and just about every other kind that there was.  By the time I was sixteen, I
had been baptized, catechized, pasteurized, and homogenized, but I had not
been converted.  I was saved when I was sixteen and started attending a
little right-wing, radical, independent, temperamental, fundamental Baptist
church.  My life really began to change.  My parents became a little
concerned and said, Kent, we are glad for all these changes in your
life, but we would like to tone you down just a little bit.  Would you
go to the Methodist church camp this summer?  I said, Id be glad to.  
I had only been saved for a couple of months when I went to the Methodist
church camp.  Now, there are some good and wonderful Methodists out there,
please don't misunderstand me, but this particular group was extremely
liberal.  The preacher at this Methodist church did not believe that the
Bible is the Word of God by a long shot.  He did not believe in a literal
hell.  He did not even believe in a literal devil.

The first evening at the camp the counselor set all the guys on their bunks,
and he said, Let me find out about all of you.  We told him who we were.  He
said, I want you to know that I am a student at Illinois State University, and
I am a humanist.  I am going to be your counselor this week.  I did not even
know what being a humanist meant.  I was only sixteen, and the brain doesnt
even start developing until about twenty.  I asked him, What is a humanist?
Does that mean that you believe in humans?  He said, Yes, I believe in humans,
but that is not what humanist means.  I said, Do you believe the Bible?  He
said, Oh, no, no.  The Bible is a good book, but its not perfect.  There are
conflicts in the Bible.  Now remember, I had only been saved a couple of
months.  My preacher had told me, If someone ever tells you there are
contradictions in the Bible, hand them your Bible and tell them to show you
one.  I thought, Ill try it.  I handed him my Bible, and I said, Show me one
of those contradictions, would you please?  He said, I would be glad to.
I thought, Oh, no!  He took my Bible and opened it to Genesis chapter 1.
Let me show you what he showed me in 1969, the first summer that I was a 
Christian.  He turned to Genesis 1:11-13, And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.  And the
earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the
tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw
that it was good.  And the evening and the morning were the third day.  The
counselor read these verses, and then said, Kent, what day did God make the
trees?  I said, He made them on the third day.  Thats what it says.  He
said, That is correct.  Look down in verse twenty.  This is where we start
day five.  Verse twenty states, And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.  He said, Kent, what day did God
make the birds?  I said, He made them on the fifth day.  He said, What did
he make the birds out of?  He made Adam out of the dirt.  He made Eve out
of Adams rib.  What did he make the birds out of?  I said, He made the
birds out of the water.  He said, That is correct.  Now look over to
Genesis 1:24-26.  He began to read, And God said, Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so.  And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image...  The counselor then said,
Hold it Kent, just a minute.  What day did God make the animals?  I said,
He made the animals on day six according to verse twenty-four.  The
counselor said, Did he make the man after he made the animals?  I said,
Yes, he did.  He made man last.  The counselor said good.  Now that we
have settled all of that.  Let me show you a contradiction in the Bible.
Look at Genesis 2:8-9.  He read, And the LORD God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.  And
out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food...  Wait a minute, the counselor said;
I thought the trees came on day three, and man came on day six.
Chapter two has a different story.  It has man first, and then the
trees, an obvious contradiction!  I didnt have any idea what to say.
I said, Well, I don't know what the answer is to that one.  He said, Oh,
there is much more.  Look down in Genesis 2:18-19.  He began to read,
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him an help meet for him.  And out of the ground the LORD
God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air...
He said, Here, we have two problems.  We have the animals being made
after man, whereas chapter one has the animals being made before man.
The second problem is we have here the birds are being made out of the
ground.  Chapter 1 has them being made out of the water.  He went on
to say, Kent, the Bible is a nice book, but it is not the Word of God.
I was devastated.  I didnt know what to say.

Have you ever been really defeated in an argument, and you just walk away
saying, Well, I don't know what to say.  You just feel humiliated.  I wish
that I could find that counselor.  I hope he reads this book, because I
have the solution to his problem.

Let me tell you the Hovind Theory of what happened.  On the third day God made
the trees, the plants, vegetation, etc.  The fourth day he made the Sun.  On
the fifth day he made the birds out of the water.  On the sixth day he made
the animals, and then he made man.  He then put man in the garden in a
particular place.  The Bible says that it was eastward, a particular place,
not the whole world, just one spot.  He put man in the garden, and there he
made the trees to grow.  The rest of the world is already full of trees.  He
made the trees to grow, and it was only certain trees.  It was only the trees
that were pleasant to the sight and good to eat.  It wasnt all the trees in 
the world.  This is a continuation of the creation.  God is not done yet.  God
is still creating.  It is still day six.  When God finished making all the
trees, he looked at Adam, and said, Adam, it is not good for you to be alone. 
I am going to make a help that is meet, or suitable for you.  Out of the
ground, God made one of each of the animals on the earth.  The rest of the
world is already full of animals.  This is just taking place in the garden,
and it is just for the purpose for Adam to name the animals, and to select
a wife.  God didnt make all the animals after Adam.  He only made one of
each of the animals.  As Adam was standing there, up out of the ground came
one of the animals.  Adam said, Hippopotamus.  No thanks, not my type.
Then up came a giraffe.  Adam said, No thanks.  One by one, God made one
of each of the animals, and Adam named them, and rejected them as far as
being his wife.  The Lord said, Adam, what do you think of all these
animals?  Adam said, That was great, Lord, but I don't want to marry any
of them.  The Lord said, Okay Adam, you just go to sleep.  I have a
surprise for you.  Adam went to sleep and the Lord took one small
spare part and made the worlds first loud speaker.  After several days
the Lord came back.   They had their wedding and honeymoon.  I don't
know who threw the rice.  The Lord said, Adam, how is going?  Adam said,
Lord, I have a couple of questions.  The Lord said, Sure Adam, what
would you like to know?  Adam said, First of all, why did you make Eve
so beautiful?  The Lord said, Adam, I did that on purpose so that you
would be attracted to her.  He said, Lord, it is working very well.  I
am very attracted to her, but Lord, I have another question.  Why did
you make her to be such an air head?  The Lord said, Well, Adam I had
to do that so that she would be attracted to you.  It works both ways.

No, there are no conflicts between Genesis chapters 1 and 2.  don't buy
that garbage.  That is the excuse a lot of people always use.

Question. What are the lines on products for?

I want you to look at something interesting on a different subject.  This
question comes up frequently, What are those little lines on the products for?
It is not an Ethiopian family portrait.  Those little lines have a meaning.
Computers are not very bright.  Computers can only count to one.  They go
from zero to one, and then they have to start over again.  They speak a
language called binary language.  Everything has to be described to a
computer in binary, which is a series of zeros and ones.  If you want
to make the number five, there are two different ways to do it.  You can
make it with a zero, which is a white line; a one, which is a black line;
and another one, which is a black line, and then zero, zero, zero, and
then one.  The computer reads all of that and interprets it as a five.
When the binary language was developed for computers, somebody decided
to let the white stripes represent zeros and the black stripes represent
ones.  By using a laser, computers scan the bar code and translate them
into numbers.  In 1972, the bar code was introduced on the products.  It
was known as the universal product code, or the universal price code (UPC).
As I said before, there are primarily two different ways to make each of
the numbers, with three different ways to make a few of them.  If you will
notice the first two lines of the computer bar code on the left are longer
than the rest of them, and they are unmarked.  The next two lines are
longer and they are marked out in front and to the left.  It is the
number zero in this case.  A fat line and a skinny line make up the
number zero. Look at the bar code in figure 6-1 and you will see the
fat line and skinny line says zero, but it is written out to the left.
You will notice that they did not mark the number for the first two.
Look five more numbers over to the right, and in the center there are
two skinny lines that are unmarked.  They are the same as the first
two.  Look five more numbers to the right, and you will see four more
numbers that are longer than the rest.  In this case, there are two
fat lines, which represent the number two, written out to the far right, and
two skinny lines again that are unmarked.  Two skinny lines represent the
computer code for six.  Back in 1972, the binary code began to be
implemented.  Every UPC code starts with a six, with a six in the middle,
and a six at the end.  They have always been that way.

Nobody seems to know why six was chosen.  They just had to pick some number.
The first six triggers the computer to turn on, read the first set, the middle
six tells the computer to switch to set two, and the last six defines the
end of the set.  This is a unique way to make numbers, and enables companies
to keep a good inventory of their products.  It is an amazing system which
works great, but it ought to ring a few bells if you are a Christian.

The Bible states that in the last days there is going to come a system of marks
to buy or sell money. Revelation 13:16-18 states, And he causeth all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, save
he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
I don't understand that, but there might be three different things going on
simultaneously.  Maybe there are some for the elite, and some for the peons.
Continuing with verse eighteen, Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man;
and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.  A score equals twenty;
so, three score equals sixty.  We were warned two thousand years ago that
in the end times there would be a system of marks to buy and sell, and it
is going to have the number 666.  The Bible states in chapter 14, if you
receive that mark you will be tormented.

Mark of the Beast

Question. What is the tiny strip in paper money?

You might want to be up-to-date on the events happening that relate to the mark
of the beast.  The UPC code that was developed in 1972 is on nearly all
products, but a system was needed to keep track of the cash.  The US Treasury
began marking the bills in 1989 with a magnetic strip of paper.  It is a
magnetic tape through the center of the paper located on the left end of the
bills.  If you have a denomination five or above, and it was printed in 1989
or later, it will have that strip.  You can hold it up to the light and see
it very clearly.  That little magnetic strip is of the same type that is on
the back of your credit card.  If you rub the strip a few times, and then
grab it with a pair of tweezers, you can remove that little strip out of the
money.  Written across the strip in a twenty dollar bill is 20 USA."   The
amount changes for each of the different denominations.  The excuse that is
given for this change, of course, is to prevent counterfeiting.

The long range plan may surprise you.  They want to be able to track the money
and find out where it goes.  They want to know who had it last.  The only way
they can do that is to have a computer chip implanted in your hand, so when
you handle the money, it will register who had that money.  They would also be
able to track how much money you have in your pocket by these little magnetic
strips.  I listened to a tape by a computer programmer from Washington state.
He designed a very tiny computer chip.  He was given the assignment with
taxpayer dollars to develop a micro computer chip that could be injected
into people that were paralyzed.  The idea was to put a chip into each of
the major muscles and network them together so that a paralyzed person
would be able to get some movement from their muscles.  They were trying
to recreate the nervous system with computers.  He and his crew developed
a computer chip that could be ejected through a hypodermic needle.  They
debated back and forth about where to get the power source.  The question
was, How are we going to power this computer?  They wanted a computer chip
that was small enough to go through a hypodermic needle, and would be
equipped with a lifetime battery.  They decided to use the lithium battery,
over many objections, because the lithium battery can be recharged by changes
in the bodys temperature.  As the body becomes warmer or cooler, it could
automatically recharge this battery.  They spent nearly two million dollars
to find out what part of the body changes temperature the most during its
lifetime.  After spending two million dollars, they found out what any
mother could have told them in the beginning.  It is the forehead or the
hand.  Where do you feel for a fever?  I cannot verify this, but I
understand from a very reliable source (that I would rather not name)
that some of the Desert Storm troops were injected with this little
computer chip in their hand.  Whether that is far fetched or not I do
not know.  The testimony that he gave me was that they were testing
the system to see if they could track the Desert Storm troops via
satellite based on that chip in their hand.

If the lithium battery that they are using and did use, goes bad, and
there are several things that will make it go bad, it will cause a horrible
boil and sore on the body.  The Bible tells in Revelation about everybody
getting noisome and grievous sores on their bodies in the last days.  We
are to the point where people do not realize that a computer chip can be
injected into the body, and one can be permanently and invisibly marked.
There will come a day that you will go to the store to buy groceries; you
will lay your hand on a scanner (Thank you Mrs. Jones), and your money will
 automatically be deducted from your account.  There will be no cash, no
credit cards, no checks, and no privacy.  Whoever runs that computer will
know everything about you; they will know everything that you have bought
and every place that you have ever been.  They will control the cash and 
that is the real purpose behind it all.  This little strip in the money is
just one of many stages of technology development.  Most people are
fascinated when they realize that we are very close to the fulfillment of
this prophecy in the book of Revelation.  There is going to be a system
where you cannot buy or sell without the mark in the hands or in the
forehead.  This is something that you need to think about.

Carbon Dating

Question. Can you prove the age of something with carbon dating?

Another subject that needs to be discussed is carbon dating.  Many people ask
me, What about carbon dating?  Doesnt carbon dating, potassium argon dating,
or uranium lead dating, prove that things are millions of years old?  You were
probably taught when you went to school that they prove the age of things by
using carbon dating methods. 

Let me explain how carbon dating works.  In the atmosphere there is a little
carbon (CO2) in the air that we breathe.  There is not much of it, but we
breathe in a little of it in, and your body hardly does anything with it.
Generally, you create it and then breathe it back out.  Plants, on the other
hand, take in CO2, and it becomes part of their tissue.  They make sugars and
things out of the CO2.  When cosmic radiation from outer space hits the
atmosphere, the high energy particles change the nitrogen (our air is about
80% nitrogen) to carbon fourteen (C14), and it becomes radioactive.  That
doesnt mean that it listens to the radio a lot.  It means its unstable
relationship is going to break down.  C14 only lasts a short time and then it
breaks back down to nitrogen, but when it breaks down it throws off little
particles.  To over simplify this, if you were walking past a piece of C14
with a Geiger counter, the little particles would strike the Geiger counter,
and you would hear it click.  Youve seen movies where they are walking
around with a Geiger counter looking for nuclear material, and it is
clicking.  Willard Libby received a Nobel Prize for the development of
carbon dating.  Willard Libby said, C14 breaks down in a predictable half
life.  About half of it changes back to N14 every 5,730 years.  We will 
round it off to 6,000 for this analogy.  In 6,000 years, it breaks down and
half of it is gone, so if you walk past a piece of C14 that is brand new,
you should get sixteen clicks per gram per minute.  Therefore if your
Geiger counter is registering sixteen clicks per minute, you have brand
new C14.  If you were able to check it 6,000 years later, half of it
would be gone, and you should only get eight clicks per minute per gram.
Therefore, if you are only getting eight clicks per gram per minute, you
can assume that it has already gone through one half life, and it is now
6,000 years old.  If you are only getting four clicks per minute, then it
has gone through two half lives, so it is now twelve thousand years old.
That is the principle of how carbon dating works.  It is very simple and
very neatly done.

Each of the radioactive elements has a different half life.  C14 has a half
life of 5,700 years.  Uranium 235 has a half life of 700 million years.  We
can tell how old something is by seeing how much of the element is in
radioactive form, and how much has decayed back to a normal, stable element,
whether it is lead, argon, or nitrogen.  This all sounds great, except the
entire theory is based on a couple of faulty assumptions that cannot be proven.

This is an analogy of why carbon dating does not work.  If you walked into a
room and found a candle burning on a table, and you said, Mr. Hovind, who lit
the candle?  I would say, I don't know.  I wasnt here when it was lit.  We ask
around to find out if anyone saw the candle being lit.  Nobody saw it, but
here it is burning.  Well, let us figure out when it was lit. First, we
 measure the candle.  We find out that the base of the candle holder is
three inches; therefore, we subtract three inches for the base leaving seven
inches of candle.  It has now been established that the candle is seven
inches tall.  This is called empirical science.  Empirical science is
something that is testable and can be demonstrated. We now time the candle
burning.  As we watch it burn, we observe that the candle is burning one inch
per hour.  This is also empirical science.  We now have two empirical facts.
It is seven inches tall, and it burns at the rate of one inch per hour. The
question is, when was it lit?  Can you tell me?  No.  You can only tell me
if you make two assumptions.  Number one, how tall it was in the beginning?
We do not know.  Number two,  has it always burned at the same rate?  We do
not know.  Maybe it was skinnier and it burned faster.  Maybe there was more
oxygen in the room, or maybe there was less oxygen in the room.  Maybe the
burn rate was different.  If you assume that the candle was twelve inches
tall, and you assume a constant burn rate, it had been burning for five
hours.  The answer is only as good as your assumptions.

Carbon dating is based on the assumption that the amount of C14 in the
atmosphere has remained constant through all time.  This is a very faulty
assumption.  As the magnetic field declines, more cosmic radiation gets
through, and our magnetic field is getting weaker and weaker. Due to the
fact that the magnetic field is decreasing, cosmic radiation causes the
Northern Lights and the Southern Lights.  If the magnetic field was once
stronger, less radiation got through and less C14 was formed.  It is true
that an animal or plant today will give off about sixteen clicks per
minute per gram, but 5,000 years ago when the magnetic field was stronger
a brand new plant would only give off a few clicks per minute per gram
because there was very little C14 in the atmosphere for them to breathe
that would have been mixed in with the CO2.  We cannot assume that C14
has always been consistent in the atmosphere.  We know that it is
constantly increasing.  Willard Libby knew that it was increasing, and he
chose to disregard the evidence.  C14 is increasing more and more in our
atmosphere, proving that the atmosphere is not more than 10,000 years old.
Uranium lead and potassium argon dating methods work on basically the 
same principle.  They all make some faulty assumptions.

If I found a dinosaur fossil and took it to a museum for carbon dating, they
would say, Oh, Mr. Hovind, we cannot possibly carbon date this because it is
too old.  I would say, You cant date it because it is too old?  They would say,
Oh yes, this is a dinosaur bone, and dinosaurs lived about seventy million
years ago.  Carbon dating is only good for about 30,000 or 40,000 years.  I
 would ask, Well, how would you date it if you cannot carbon date it?  They
would say, We simply use another method.  Each of the radioactive elements
have a different half life.  We know that this bone is about 70 million
years old (U235 has a half life of 700 million.)  We would use the U235
so that gives us a pretty accurate way of measuring objects between 50
million and 800 million years old.  That bone fits in that range, so we
will check for U235 instead of C14.

They brake off a piece and test it.  They find the uranium-to-lead composition,
and they say, Oh!  This bone is ten million years old.  Something went wrong.
Let's try it again.  They get another sample, break it off, check for
uranium-to-lead composition, and this time it shows to be only two million
years old.  They will say, Something went wrong.  The sample must have been
contaminated.  Lets try it again.  They brake off another sample.  They will
continually test until they get an answer that is in the range that they are
looking for which is 70 million years.

You see; everything must fit within the geologic column.  The geologic
column is the bible to the evolutionist.  Any radiometric dating that is
given that is outside the realm of the geologic column is rejected.  They
will say, We know that cant be right.  We already know how old it is,
approximately, based on the geologic column.  That is where the fraud comes
in.  The geologic column is a hoax.  If a bone did contain some carbon,
uranium, and potassium, and they checked it three different ways, they
would get three wildly different numbers.

Let me cite from an article that I read:

Some Cat! The family cat died and was buried by the children.  A few years
later the young people wondered what was left of their cat, and dug it up.
They were amazed to find that some of the bones appeared to be petrified.
In order to find out, they sent it to the university lab without telling
the nature of their discovery.  As a result of the lab testing, they were
informed that the bones were those of a cat that lived several million
years ago and was an evolutionary ancestor of the modern cat.

You can take a clam that is still alive, break off a piece of the shell,
and send it to a university for carbon dating, and it will come back to
be 4,000 to 5,000 years old.  I don't want you to think that all dating
methods are useless.  They are not useless, but they are very much over
blown in their importance.  They are all based on very faulty assumptions.
don't fall for the statement, They proved it is so many millions of years
old based on carbon dating.

The Great Pyramid

Question. Who built the Great Pyramid?

I believe the Great Pyramid was built to be the Bible in stone.  The Egyptians
did not build it.  It is the only pyramid with no hieroglyphics in it.  The
other pyramids were copies of the Great Pyramid.  The Great Pyramid is very
special.  It does not have a cornerstone.  The top stone is not there.  The
cornerstone was rejected by the builders just as the Bible says.  Jesus
Christ is the chief cornerstone; he is the stone cut out of the mountain,
without hands, as told in the book of Daniel.  He is the Rock of Offense,
the Stone of Stumbling.  The cornerstone on the pyramid has five sides, the
number of grace.

In 822 AD, entrance was gained to the pyramid by tunneling through the
exterior.  They actually dug a tunnel through the solid rock and found
the entrance by going backward.  If they could have found the entrance,
they could have just touched it and it would have swung open.  When you
enter into the pyramid, the passage leads downward.  After a short distance
you must make a choice.  You can continue on the broad way that leads down
to the pit, or you can choose the narrow way that leads up to the kings
chamber.  If you choose the narrow way to the kings chamber, you must to
go up one-hundred and fifty-three steps.  One-hundred and fifty-three is a
neat number.  It appears in the Bible only once, in John 21:11.  They cast
their net into the sea, and gathered up all the fish, one-hundred and
fifty-three great fishes.  This is a parable in the Bible.  One-hundred
and fifty-three steps go up to the kings chamber by way of the narrow
passage.  There are so many things that are symbolic.  There might be
one-hundred and fifty-three nations in the world when the Lord comes
and sets up His kingdom.  There are one-hundred and sixty now, but some
break apart and come together.  There are going to be at least ten that
will go together.  The European Common Market is probably the forerunner
to that, if not it.  I suspect that there will be one-hundred and
fifty-three nations in the world when the Lord comes back.

If you look at the back of the dollar bill, it has a pyramid with an all-seeing
eye.  If you look carefully, the eye and the light above the pyramid are not
touching the pyramid.  There is a gap between them, and this is very important.
The men who developed the symbol on the back of our dollar bill in 1776 were
the Illuminati group.  If you notice, the Roman numerals at the bottom of the
pyramid denote the date 1776, and they are not there because of the
Declaration of Independence they signed.  It is there because that is the date
the Illuminati was formed, and this was their symbol.  Many of the wealthy
and the super rich of this world have had a continuing conspiracy to control
humanity by controlling the currency of this world.  What they are trying to
do is get all of humanity together so they can institute the light bearer,
the all-seeing eye, as the ruler.  It is not yet touching because he has not
been instituted yet.  That light bearer, the all-seeing eye, is Lucifer the
devil.  That is part of the New Age Movement.  The purpose if the New Age
Movement is to get everybody together under one government, one religion,
and then institute Lucifer to be the leader.  Guess what?  It is not going
to happen.  You see; Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone.

The Bible says that the new Jerusalem is going to measure 1,500 x 1,500 x
15,00 miles.  Most people assume this to be a cube measurement.  A pyramid
can also be 1,500 x 1,500 x 1,500 miles.  It might be that Jesus Christ is
the light bearer, and since the city will be pure gold, translucent, it will
not need any light.  Jesus Christ is the light.  When the chief cornerstone
is put in place, it will light up the whole city.  That is just something
that is interesting to think about. 

The numbers and measurements inside the kings chamber are remarkable.
Inside the kings chamber there is a red granite coffin.  The inside
dimensions of that coffin are exactly the same dimensions as the ark of
the covenant that the Jews hauled around in the wilderness.  The ark of
the covenant?  It had the ten commandments in it, the pot of manna, and
Aaron's rod that budded.  This are a lot of books that you can read on the
Great Pyramid.  It is a fascinating subject.

The Red Sea Crossing

Question. Where did Pharaoh and his army drown in the Red Sea?

Many people have been looking for the place where Pharaoh and his army drowned
in the Red Sea.  Near the top, the Red Sea splits into the  Gulf of Suez to
the left and the Gulf of Aqaba to the right.  Scholars have always thought
that when the Israelites left Egypt they crossed the Red Sea, and then crossed
the Gulf of Suez on the left.  Ron Wyatt and many others have come to the
conclusion that maybe they crossed the Red Sea at the Gulf of Aqaba.  Maybe
the Jews went all the way across the Sinai Peninsula and crossed the Red Sea.
A dry river bed has been found that leads from Egypt all the way across the
Sinai Peninsula right up to the Gulf of Aqaba.  If they stopped there, they
would have come to a huge flat area.  Mountains are on both sides that go
right out into the water.  There is no way to the right or left.  If they
followed the Y to the dry river bed they would have been trapped at the Red
Sea.  The Jews had been slaves for their entire existence, which meant they
had never been out of Egypt.  They didnt have any idea where they were going,
so they followed the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire.  Apparently, God
led the Jews all the way across the Sinai Peninsula, and they ended up at the
Gulf of Aqaba.  Pharaohs spies probably went back and said, Ah ha!  Pharaoh,
they are trapped.  Go get them!  Pharaoh and his army went all the way
across the Sinai Peninsula and found them trapped.  It was there that God
performed the miracle of parting the Red Sea.  The children of Israel went
across on dry ground, and Pharaohs army drowned.

People have gone scuba diving in that location, and guess what they have found?
At the bottom of the Red Sea, on each side of the Gulf of Aqaba, are pillars
inscribed by King Solomon (figure 6-5).  Inscribed on the pillars are: This
is the place where they crossed the Red Sea.  At the bottom of the Red Sea,
there are chariot wheels that are not connected to the chariots.  They are
scattered all across that area.  There are also chariots without any wheels
attached.  These pieces are all crusted over with coral at the bottom of the
Gulf of Aqaba.  There is a mountain on the right side of the Gulf of Aqaba
called Jabal al-Law, which means, Mountain of Laws.  I saw a video that shows
the whole top of this mountain.  The top of that mountain is black, as if it
were burned.  The Arabs think that is where Moses received the ten
commandments.  Its not even in the Sinai Peninsula.  They are on the wrong
side of the Gulf.  On the other side is Mt. Sinai.  Ten or fifteen miles
away from Mt. Sinai,  you can look down and see a huge bolder in the middle
of a flat plane.  This huge bolder has been split right in half.  It is
separated by about eighteen inches.  This video is available by contacting
Richard Reeves at Matthews, North Carolina, 704-847-0185.  The video shows
a huge rock that is a giant bolder in the middle of nowhere.  It is just
flat land.  On both sides of the bolder, there are dry creek beds.  At one
time, water came pouring out of that rock and actually eroded the ground.
They also discovered the cities of Sodom and Gomorra.  The actual cities of
Sodom and Gomorra are at the south end of the Dead Sea.  You cant see the
cities unless you are about five miles away.  When you get right up next
to them, they look just like cliffs of ash.  If you dig into the ash, you
will find little sulfur balls that have been burned out.  The outer part
is a crust of white sulfur that has been burned, sulfur and ash.  The
inner part is still yellow sulfur.  The Bible says that it literally
rained fire and brimstone on the cities of Sodom and Gomorra.  I have
about six or seven of those sulfur balls that a friend of mine sent to
me when he visited that area.  

You see; the Bible is right.  You can count on it.  The Bible is correct!!!

Frequently asked questions on a variety of subjects

Question. What about the purity of the genes when the races were first
created, and where did Cain get his wife?

There were no deformed genes or mutations as we have today.  Today, each person
carries quite a heavy genetic load.  That is why if you marry someone that is
closer than your first cousin, there is a good chance that the babies will be
deformed because both carry similar mutations.  The deformities will most
likely show up in the baby in the form of six fingers, hemophilia, etc.  Some
of these very common mutations happen from marrying too close to the blood
line.  Sometimes cats will breed back to an aunt, to their own mother or to
their sister.  This will produce offspring that have six or eight toes, or 
some mutation along that order.  Sometimes the defects are very serious, and
sometimes they are not so serious.

When God first made the world, there was not a genetic load.  Therefore, they
married sisters in the first generation, and in the second generation, they
married cousins.  After that, they were diversified enough to be no problem.
A lot of people ask where did Cain get his wife.  He married a sister.  Adam
and Eve probably had hundreds of children.  They lived 800 years, and one
could have a lot of children in 800 years.

Question. Where did the different races come from?

I am very often asked, Where did the black race come from?  You might want to
ask the question, Where did the white race come from? Adam may have been black.

There are three possibilities in Scripture as to the origin of the races.  The
Bible is not clear on this subject.  I think that it would be wise not to be
dogmatic.  If the Bible is not dogmatic on a particular subject then you should
not be dogmatic about your answer.  Some people say that God put a mark on
Cain, and that is what the Scriptures reveal.  God did put a mark on Cain.
Some believe that means he became the first black man.  That is not what the
Bible says.  It says that he put a mark on him.  Look at Genesis 4:15, And
the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall
be taken on him sevenfold.  And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any
finding him should kill him.  Some people think that he became a giant.
That is a very real possibility, but we don't know for sure.

The first theory that Cain became a black man, and that is how the black race
was derived, presents a problem.  The problem with this theory is that it
doesn't explain the other races, and it doesnt address the problem with the
flood.  The flood would limit them back to one family.  There is one argument
that says one of Noahs boys married a black girl, and the genetic pool was
preserved through the flood.  I personally do not believe this theory.

The second theory that people hold is that the black race came when Noah cursed
his grandson Canaan.  I believe Noah had accidentally become drunk.
Fermentation was not even possible before the flood.  The canopy of water
protected the earth prior to the flood.  They could not have made wine or
alcohol even if they had wanted to make it.  It simply could not be done.
Therefore, Noah, a preacher of righteousness, became drunk, and his son Ham
laughed at his fathers nakedness.  Noah awoke from his sleep and said, ...
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Some people take that to mean that Canaan became the first black man.
The black race has been persecuted down through history; however, I
personally do not buy that idea.

The third theory from Scripture is derived from the Tower of Babel where God
confused the languages.  The races were either miraculously created or the
races were a natural byproduct of small groups of people who spoke the same
language going off to their own place and inbreeding for generations within
that small group of the same genetic pool.  If that were the case, mutations
would become dominate within a small population.

I personally hold to the Tower of Babel explanation, because the races also
have similar languages.  The racial barrier and the language barrier seem to
go together.  Therefore, the Tower of Babel is probably the best explanation.
It would be advisable not to be dogmatic because the Bible is not clear on
this matter.  I do know this, all nations are of one blood, and we are not
uperior to the blacks, or the Orientals, or any other color, just because
we may be white.  We are all the same, and I am very much against racism!


Question. Is it true that a chromosome has been found that proves that
homosexuals are born with the inability to choose their life style?

I understand that all the research that has been done on this has been found to
be false.  There has been research that indicates nearly all homosexuals come
from families that have a weak father figure, and a dominate mother.  I believe
that research shows that there is a social link where the children are raised
to be wimps or whatever.  I say that homosexuality is a sin, not a sickness.
It is a sin according to Scripture.  

The emphasis on eliminating gays in the military has taken the emphasis off 
adultery and fornication, which is also a sin for which they were to be stoned
in the Old Testament.  People are always quick to point out, Hey, we ought to
stone the homosexuals!  What is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
If you believe stoning the homosexuals is still valid, then you ought also to
stone those that commit adultery or fornication.  As much as I am against
homosexuality, homosexuality has drawn our attention away from other sins.

I do not buy the so-called chromosome link, and I believe that research has
been shown to be erroneous.  There never was a chromosome link.


Question. Who were the giants mentioned in Genesis chapter 6?  The Bible says
there were giants in the earth in those days.

I have read many theories on this subject, but I have never read one that has
totally convinced me of the correct answer.  The Bible is clear about the
giants.  Some say that God put a mark on Cain, and he became a giant.  The
Giant race from Cains descendants then began to intermarry with Seths
descendants, the godly race.  Some people say that demons came in human
form and cohabited with women and begat half demon and half human, and
their offspring were men of renown; people that were able to great things.
They were supposed to have had wings on their feet, and to be able to fly.
This is where the Greek mythology originated, which may not be too far
fetched.  Some believe that this cohabitation was a satanic attempt to
corrupt the blood line of Judah from which the Messiah was to come.  I get
articles sent to me all the time about who these people were.  Again, this
is an area that I cannot be dogmatic about because the Bible doesnt give a
lot of information, and I really don't know who they were.  This is one of
the first questions that I intend to ask the Lord when I get to Heaven.  My
first question, believe it or not, will be, Did Adam and Eve have a belly
button?  I don't know why, but that has bothered me for years.  There was a
church in California that actually split over that question.  One group said,
Yes, they did because they would not be complete without a belly button. 
The other group said, No, they didnt because they were never born.  That is
where the umbilical corn connects before birth.  They actually split the
church over that argument.  One group went across town and started a new
church.  I saw the article in the paper.  I couldnt believe it.  The name
of the church was, The Church of the Navelites.  Only in California!

Question.  Are there extraterrestrial life forms?  What about life on other
planets?

One of the motives of NASA is to prove the theory of evolution by using
taxpayer dollars.  Millions and billions of dollars are spent trying to
prove the theory of evolution.  I would like to tell the government, Hey,
I would like an equal amount to prove the Bible is true.  They would say,
You are crazy!  They are not thinking because all they are trying to do
is prove a religion.  Carl Pagan (I mean Segan) and his group are attempting
to look for signals of intelligent life on other planets.  I have said many
times that I do not believe that there is much intelligent life on this
planet.  I do not believe that there is any intelligent life on other
planets that can be proven scripturally because the Bible says that Eve is
the mother of all living.  It is too hard to get around that verse; plus,
there was no death until Adam sinned.  I take that to mean there never been
any deaths in the universe until Adam sinned.  I believe that sin brought
death into the universe according to Romans 5:12.  I think God made all
the stars just for us to marvel at His great intelligence and wisdom.
Nobody has ever proven the existence of another planet around any other
star except the nine that we know of around our star, the sun.  Therefore,
there may not be any other stars in the solar system that have planets
around them.  There may be, but we cannot prove it.  

Question. What about UFOs, where do they fit into the picture?


The only book that I have read that really struck home with me giving a
possible explanation for UFOs was the book published in Australia called
The Cosmic Conspiracy by Stan Deyo.  Stanley Deyo, a Christian, is a genius
who wrote the book way over my head.  Deyo says that there are two kinds of
UFOs.  First, there are US government owned and operated UFOs.  That really
got my attention.  The US government has UFOs?  He said that the second kind
is the satanically-owned and operated UFOs.  He says that Satan has always
used that mode of transportation to get around because the devil can only be
at one place at one time, whereas God is all places at all times.  That may
be far fetched, so please do not accuse me of saying this is true.  I do not
know if it is true, but it is an interesting theory.

Deyo tells an interesting story.  Back in the 1920s there were experiments
taking place in Red Gap, Australia, with electrogravidic propulsion.  I
mentioned this in a church some time back, and a man who is a physicist came
to me and said, Brother Hovind, nobody is supposed to know about
electrogravidic propulsion.  How did you find out about it?  I said, I read.
Deyo states in his book that he used to work on UFOs, that is, he used to
build them.  He said that in 1920 they did experiments with electrogravidic
propulsion.  The idea was to charge an object up using a vandegraaff
generator to obtain electrogravidic propulsion.  If you were to stand on a
block of wood and put your hand on the aluminum ball of a vandegraaff
generator and flip the switch on causing a rubber belt to go round and round,
you will become charged up.  When you reach 10,000 volts, your hair stands on
 end.  What happens when you get to 100,000 volts?  It really stands up then,
at least for those who have hair.  What is going to happen when you reach a
million volts?  If you were to reach a million volts, and you were holding a
2x4 in your hand sticking out into the air, it would burst into flames.  You
would not feel a thing, but all of a sudden it would start burning.  It is a
strange phenomenon, and there are extremes.  We have solids, liquids, and
gases.  What happens if you keep heating the gas?  You would get plasma.
What if you keep heating it?  We do not know because we are unable to get
gas that hot.  Maybe there are phenomenon at the extreme that we do not
know about.  The idea was that an object could be charged to the extreme.
If you could charge an object with enough voltage, millions and millions
of volts, it would become immune, or inert to gravity.  Gravity would not
have any effect on it.  Deyo said that they charged these steel plates up
to several million volts and they floated around the room.  They did further
experiments to try to direct and steer them and recharge them without
touching them.  This may be far fetched, I don't know, but it might also
be true.  

The principles behind electrogravidic propulsion are very different from the
principle behind jet propulsion.  As a jet takes off, the passenger would be
forced back into the seat by the G force because the jet has a motor in it and
the passenger does not have a motor.  When a jet comes to a stop, the passenger
should have a seat belt on or he will fly forward due to inertia.  However,
with electrogravidic propulsion all the rules would change.  It would be
very different. Every atom would be drawn electrically.  The passengers
inside the craft drawn by electrogravidic propulsion would not need a seat
belt.  The vehicle could go from zero to five-thousand miles per hour in a
second, and the passengers on board would not feel a thing.  The vehicle
could go from five-thousand miles per hour to zero, and the passengers
inside would not move at all.  The witnesses that have reported UFO activity
have described them to have instantaneous start-to-stop movements, which
would kill a person in a jet.  Some believe it is all demonic activity.  It
may be, or it may be US government top secret aircraft.

Question. How was the Red Sea parted?

There are always those who try to give a physical explanation for some of the
things in the Bible.  The only possible explanation for the parting of the Red
Sea that I can find would be a miracle.  The Bible says that the water stood
in heaps on the sides.  Some people say that it was an earthquake that caused
tidal waves to meet, and then they parted allowing the people to run across.
That is a bit far fetched.  I don't buy that at all.  Some have said that it
was really the Reed Sea, and it was just shallow water, so the people just
walked across.  That would be even a bigger miracle because now they have
Pharaohs whole army drowning in ankle deep water.  Pharaoh says, Okay
everybody, lay down and stick your head in the water, and don't come up until
I tell you to.  Remember also, the Bible says that they crossed on dry
ground.  How are you going to explain that one away?  No, it was a miracle.
God would not be much of a God if he could not perform a miracle.  He made
all the laws that govern this universe, such as gravity, and time.  He is
not bound by any of them.  He is God.

Question. When was the fall of Satan?  Did it come before the creation 
of the world?  Was there a period of time from the creation until the six
days when God made everything?  What about the Gap theory?

I believe the Genesis account is to be taken literally just as it was written.
It was six literal twenty-four hour days.  There was no gap.  There was no
period of time before the original creation.  There was actually no time. 
God made time as well as matter and space.  I do not think that Satan fell
from heaven until about one-hundred years after the creation.  He could not
have fallen before the creation because he was spoken about in the book of
Ezekiel as being good while in the garden.  Look at Ezekiel 28:13-15, Thou
hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering,
the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the
sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast
created.  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the
midst of the stones of fire.  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day
that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.  He was Lucifer,
a good angel, or cherub, and he was in the Garden.  The Garden of Eden
wasn't made until day six, so that shoots the Gap Theory full of holes
right there.  Not only that, but Jesus said in Matthew 19:4 that the
creation of Adam and Eve was the beginning.  Read what it says, And he
answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at
the beginning made them male and female.  Romans 5:12 says that there was
no death until Adam sinned, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned.  Those who say that Satan fell from heaven and wiped out
the preadamic civilization are placing death before sin.  They have just
eliminated the need for Christ to die on the cross.  There was no death
until sin came into the world.  Exodus 20:11 states, For in six days
the LORD made heaven and earth...  This is found in the middle of the
ten commandments.  

God made the whole thing in six literal twenty-four hour days, including time,
including the angels, and everything that is.  What day he made the angles is
not known, but Satan did not fall until after the creation, maybe even
one-hundred or so years later.  All that we know is Adam was one-hundred
and thirty when Seth was born.  That is the first date given in Scripture.
 Before he had Seth, they had Cain and Abel, but their dates are not given.
Before he had Cain and Abel, they were removed from the garden.  Therefore,
it would have been somewhere around a one-hundred year span where Satan may
have become jealous of the fellowship Adam and Eve had with God.  Satan may
have observed their relationship for one-hundred years, and said, Hey, I want
them to worship me!  I want to rule humanity.  I want to walk with them in
the garden.  I will ascend unto the high heavens.  I will take over the
seat of the Most High.  I will, I will, I will.

My theory is, and I cannot prove it, but I am pretty convinced that Satan
did not fall until one-hundred years after the creation.  The fall could not
 have been in the original creation because he was still the light bearer in
the Garden of Eden.

Question. What is time?

When I was in Mobile, Alabama a couple of years ago, a friend of mine that I
had known for years, happened to be at the church where I was preaching.  He
came to see me after the service, and he said, Brother Hovind, that was an
interesting presentation.  Let me show you something.  I said, Yeah, what
have you got?  He said, Lets go out and get an ice-cream or something.
We went to the Dairy Queen and got an ice-cream cone.  We sat down at the
table, and he took two 3x5 cards out of his pocket, and he wrote on one,
Mr. Flat, and he wrote on the other one, Mrs. Flat. He laid them on the
table, and he said, Brother Hovind, you taught geometry.  You understand
what a plane is, right?  I said, Oh yes, I understand what a plane is.  He
said, I want you to imagine that we have two people, Mr. Flat and Mrs. Flat,
and they live in Flat Land.  They have only two dimensions.  They have only
width and length.  They have no height at all.  They have no comprehension of
the third dimension.  Their whole world is flat.  Everything that they see is
in Flat Land.  That is their entire world, a two dimensional world.  I said,
Okay, I have you so far.  He said, Now, when Mr. Flat looks at Mrs. Flat, what
does he see?  I said, He sees a straight line.  He said, That is correct.  He
can walk around Mrs. Flat and realize that she is indeed a rectangle based
upon depth perception.  He only sees one dimension, length, but he understands
the second dimension based upon experience.  She really has two dimensions to
her.  You and I live in a three dimensional world.  We actually see only two
dimensions.  We can see the width and the height, but we perceive depth based
upon experience.  We don't really see three dimensions, we only see two of them.
Mr. and Mrs. Flat only see one dimension, and understand the second.  I said,
Okay Ron, I have got it.  We see two dimensions, we understand the third, we
live in a three dimensional world.  He said, Okay, here is Mr. Flat and
Mrs. Flat in Flat Land.  This table top is where they live.  Suppose you,
as a three-dimensional creature, wanted to reveal yourself to these two 
dimensional creatures.  You would have to project yourself into their world.
Suppose you stick your finger through the table, and Mr. Flat comes over.
He looks at the cross section of your finger, which is a circle, and he says,
Ah ha!  I have seen Kent Hovind.  He is a circle.  A little further over you
stick three fingers through the table.  Mrs. Flat goes over, and she sees
three circles.  She says, Oh, no honey, Ive seen Kent Hovind.  He is three
circles.  They are going to argue for awhile, and they are going to split
the church.  They are going to start the church of the one circle and the
church of the three circles, but neither one of them really have any
comprehension of who you are.  You cannot put a three dimensional object
into two dimensions in a way that it can be fully comprehended.  It simply
cannot be done.  Now, with that thought in mind, maybe God has more than
three dimensions.  

That would appear to be the case according to an unusual verse in the book of
Ephesians 3:18, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth,
and length, and depth, and height. And to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 
Four dimensions, is that what it says?  The breadth, and length, and depth,
and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge?  Could
it be that God has entirely new dimensions that we really cannot comprehend
in our present state? As Mr. Flat and Mrs. Flat were reclining on the table,
Ron said, Kent, watch this.  He put his hand on top of both of them.  He
said, Do you realize that I can be closer to them than they can be to each
other?  They would be totally unaware of my presence because I am just
barely in the next dimension.  Im above them, and under them where they do
not see me, but I am closer to them that they can ever be to each other.
Did you know that Jesus Christ is closer that a brother?  The Bible has a
lot of verses about how the Lord upholds us with His right hand, how He
standeth around us, through us, above us.  I think there is a whole lot
more to God than we understand.  Have you ever had a problem in
mathematics class and you said, Teacher, I don't get it, I just don't get it.
The teacher explains it over and over again, and finally you say, Ah!
I get it.

I think that one day when we as Christians get to heaven,  we are going to be
there for just a few seconds, and we are going to look around, and say, Ah 
I get it.  For right now, we are locked in a three-dimensional world.  We are
locked into time.  You cannot go faster into the future, and you cannot go
back to the past.  You are stuck in the present.  God is not stuck in the
present.  God is not stuck in space or time or matter.  He permeates
everything.  Genesis 1:1 has the best illustration of the Trinity .  In the
beginning...  That is time.  Time has three parts to it, past, present, and
future.  Where can one go where he is not in time?  He cannot get away from
it, can he?  In the beginning, time, God created the heavens  space.  Space
has three dimensions, depth, width, and height.  There is the trinity again.
Where can one be where one is not in space someplace?  Nowhere.  In the
beginning, God created the heaven and the earth  matter.  Matter has three
dimensions, solid, liquid, and gas.  There is the Trinity of trinities right
there in Genesis 1:1.  In ten words God said more than anybody else could
say in a book.  It is amazing.  We serve an amazing Lord.

Question. Is it possible to travel through time?

I have another illustration that may help you understand time.  Light travels
at 186,000 miles per second.  That means, if you went 186,000 miles away,
turned around and looked back at the earth, you would be seeing the earth one
second ago.  It takes light about 11/2 seconds to get to the moon.  A person
standing on the moon looking back at the earth is actually seeing the earth
11/2 seconds ago.  It takes light eight minutes to get from the sun to the
earth.  A person on the sun would see the earth eight minutes ago.  It takes
light five hours to reach Pluto.  A person standing on Pluto, looking back at
the earth would actually be seeing the earth five hours ago.  Are you seeing
the past?  It takes light four and one-half years to reach Alpha Centauri or
Proxima Centauri.  If a person was standing on Alpha Centauri looking back at
the earth, he would be seeing everything four and one-half years ago.  Suppose
that you were able to travel at the speed of thought instead of the speed of
light.  You could take off somewhere, turn around, and look at your own past.
You couldnt do anything about it, but you could watch it.  Maybe on judgment
day, God is going to say, You did this on such and such date.  One might say,
Oh, no Lord, I didnt do that.  He will say, Okay, lets move court out here.
SWISH.  Okay, lets watch it coming again.  Everything that was ever said,
thought, or done is still traveling out through space.  WOW!  Isnt that a
frightening thought?  There is a way to get rid of it.  The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses us from all sin.  We are going to go out into space for my
judgment day, about forty light years away and then turn around and look at
Kent Hovind's life.  There he is crawling around East Peoria, Illinois.  I
didn't really crawl around the whole city.  There will be times that part
of my video will be blanked out by the blood of Christ.  All of the bad is
going to be blanked out.  Only the good is going to be left.  My
forty-year video will probably fit on about a fifteen minute tape. 
The blood of Jesus Christ is a wonderful thing.  You had better make
sure that you have been saved when that time comes, and it is coming.

If you were flying in a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, you could see people
getting into a raft and they could see you.  They push out into the river, and
they start going further down the Canyon. An hour later, another group takes
off in a raft.  They can see you, and you can see them, but they cant see the
group in front of them.  Every hour a new group takes off down the Canyon.
None of the groups can see each other, but all of the groups can see you.
You can see all of the groups simultaneously.  If you have two-way radio
systems, you could talk to each of the groups from the helicopter.  You
could warn group B, Hey, rapids ahead!  They cant see them yet because the
rapids are around the curve.  This is a rough analogy of what time is like.
The river would represent time.  We happen to be stuck right here in 1996,
drifting along one year at a time.  God, from His perspective, can see all
of time.  God can see right now what is going to happen in 1996, and 1997,
and what happened in 1997 BC.  He sees all three simultaneously.  It is not
1995 in heaven.  There is no time there.  When God is all finished with this
 world, he is going to stop time again.  The first thing that you need to do
when you get to heaven is take your watch off, and throw it away.  There will
be no time there. 

Somebody asked me one time, What did God do for billions of years before he
made Adam and Eve?  There wasnt billions of years before he made Adam and
Eve.  He also made time when he made the world.  If you stop and think about
it, that means once upon a time there was a time when there was no time.
Figure out that one.  The idea of God having more dimensions than we can
possibly understand is an interesting thought.

Question.	If the earth is six to seven thousand years old, how do
you explain starlight, which is said to be billions of light years away?


People ask me this question all the time, Wait a minute, Brother Hovind!  If
the earth is only six or seven-thousand years old, why do we see starlight? 
How did the light from those stars get here which are billions of light years
away?  If the world is only six-thousand years old and those stars are billions
of light years away, their light should not have reached the earth yet.  We
should see the stars blinking on all the time as light from new stars reach
us.  That is an interesting thought except for a couple of faulty assumptions.
Number one, how do you know how far away that star is?  How does one measure
the distance to a star?  What does one use, a Lufkin, a Craftsman, or what? 
What kind of ruler would be used?  The way to measure the distance to stars
is by using parallax trigonometry.  I taught trigonometry for years, and I
thoroughly loved the subject.  If you want to solve a triangle, you have to
have one side and two angles, or two sides and one angle.  With this
information, you can solve the unknown length of one side of a triangle.  It 
is simple trigonometry.  Any high school senior can do that if he has learned
his trigonometry.  If you are looking at a star, and the person next to you is
also looking at a star, the both of you have formed a triangle.  The distance
between you and the other person is one base, and the angle at which you each
look at the star is the two angles, but you are going to be limited to how far
you can see.  You can only calculate the distance based on how accurately you
can calculate the angle at which you can see the star.  The farthest that we
can get away on earth is eight-thousand miles.  That would be one on opposite
sides of the earth.  Now, we have an eight-thousand mile base looking at the
sun 93 million miles away.  That is a long skinny triangle, and that is just
to the sun.  The closest star, Alpha Centauri, is four and one-half light
years away.

They have tried to enlarge the base of the triangle by looking at the star in
January, and then looking at it six months later in June as we travel around
the sun.  That would create a huge triangle base, comparatively speaking.  The
base would be 186 million miles in length.  That sounds impressive except 186
million miles is only sixteen light minutes in length.  It would take only
sixteen minutes for light to go all the way across the earths orbit.  Stop
and think about that for a minute.  They are going to tell me that they can
calculate the distance to a star, and the base of their triangle is only
sixteen minutes apart.  How many minutes are in a year?  There are a lot, about
525,600 minutes.  The farthest that they can measure distance to stars is about
sixty light years away.  If somebody says that a star is ten billion light
years away, you ask them how they know that.  Who measured it, and how did they
measure it?  Show me the mathematics please.  You would get an angle that is
so close to zero that nobody could measure it.  The textbooks all agree that
that one cannot measure a star more than sixty light years away, and some say
one-hundred light years away.  Ill give them two hundred light years, but
when they say five billion light years away, I would say that they do not
know anymore that you or I do.

The first point on the starlight question is: We don't know how far away the
stars are.  They might be billions of light years away.  Im not saying that
they are not.  I am saying that we cannot measure it.  Some say, What about
the red shift?  The red shift is the Doppler effect of light.  Nobody knows
what is causing the red shift.  Maybe light becomes tired of traveling great
distances.  That cannot be used to prove that light is great distances away.
The star could be very close, traveling away from us, and still give us the
red shift.  

The second observation about starlight is: If God is able to make the stars,
he is certainly able to make the light already showing on earth as a mature
creation.  Did Adam and Eve have a belly button?  Did the trees in the Garden
of Eden have rings in them?  Were Adam and Eve fully grown the second they
were created?  Was there any appearance of age?  God made the stars in order
to be a light upon the earth.  The light was showing the instance they were
created.  

The third observation is:  We do not know that the speed of light has always
been the same.  Maybe light traveled faster when God first made it.  Some
would say, No, the speed of light is a constant.  That sounds impressive, but
you really cant see it.  If you are traveling down the highway at sixty miles
an hour, and turn your headlights on, how fast is the light going from your
headlights?  Compared to you, it is going at the speed of light.  Compared to
someone on the sidewalk it is going at the speed of light plus sixty miles an
hour.  The speed of light is not necessarily constant.  We do not know that
light has always traveled at the same speed.  We don't even know what light
is.  Nobody knows what it is, so they certainly cant prove that it has always
been traveling at the same speed.

An interesting thing about light is that it can be broken up into the color
spectrum of the rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.  The
color spectrum is only a small piece of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Did
you know that bugs can see ultraviolet light, but you cannot see it?  Did
you know that bugs cannot see red?  That is why you can put a red or yellow
light out on your porch, and bugs will not see it.  They think it is black.
 Their eyes pick up different wave lengths.  Now, think about this.  Suppose
when we get to heaven God gives you the five senses that you currently have,
sight, taste, touch, smell, and hearing but he expands your sense of sight.
He now gives you an eyeball that is capable of seeing all the frequencies
on the spectrum.  That means that you would be able to see the radio waves
going through the air as a color.  Also, you would be able to see the sounds
that come from a piano.  If someone were talking, their voice would not only
make sounds that you could hear, but it would also make colors.  You could
see the sounds.  That means in heaven there may be brand new colors.  I don't
mean new shades of the colors that we now see.  Im talking about new colors
that are unimaginable.  That is why heaven has to be so large.  It is for the
ladies closets.  Can you imagine the clothes that they are going to have to
have with all of these brand new colors?

Maybe when we get to heaven God will give us ears that can not only pick up
20,000 cycles per second, 20 kHz, but pick up the whole spectrum.  Maybe when
you get to heaven you might be able to hear the colors.  In the book of
I Corinthians 2:9 the Bible states, But as it is written, eye hath not seen,
 nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which
God hath prepared for them that love him.  Also, when Paul was rocked to sleep
(I mean stoned) outside the city of Lystra, he was caught up to the third
heaven.  When he got up to heaven the Lord said, Paul, its good to see you
hear, son!  Paul looks around and says, WOW!  The Lord said, Hey, Paul, calm
down.  I know that it is great up hear, but you cant stay.  I want you to go
back down, and get back into that body, and go preach some more.  Paul said,
Lord, I would be glad to go preach for you, but would you give me a different
body?  This one is really beat.  Look at it.  They threw rocks at it.  They
beat it up bad.  Its all busted up.  The Lord said, No, Paul.  People wouldn't
recognize you if I gave you a new body.  Go get in that one.

Paul went back down, and as they were dragging that old body out to the garbage
heap, he climbed back into that wreck of a carcass, and arose from the dead.
The disciples said, Paul, we thought that you were dead!  Paul said, I was! 
They said, Paul, where have you been.  Paul said, I have been to heaven.  They
said, What was it like?  Paul said, I saw things that is not lawful for man to
utter.  I could not possibly describe them to you.  Could you explain colors
to a blind man?  Where would you start when trying to explain colors to a
blind man?  You could not do it, could you?  Could you explain sound to a
deaf man?  No.  Can you explain heaven to an earthling?  No.  I know this,
for the next fourteen years, the Apostle Paul was eager to die so he could go
to heaven.  He said to the Philippian Church, For I am in a strait betwixt
two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.  When Paul would
go to a city and start preaching they would say: Paul, if you keep preaching,
we are going to kill you.  Paul would say anxiously, Oh, really!  Lets go,
 man!  Im ready to go!  What do you do with a fellow like that?  You kill
him and send him to heaven.  That is what he wants.

I think that we get too wrapped up in this world.  We have no comprehension of
what is coming.  We are walking by faith.  Paul was walking by sight.  You can
get even more rewards than Paul if you work for the Lord now because you are
walking by faith not by sight.

Question. Could evolution have happened in giant leaps, known as punctuated
equilibrium?

Goldsschmidt proposed that idea back in the 1940s.  It has just been revised by
Niles Eldridge, the curator of the Museum of Natural History in New York, and 
Stephen Gould of Harvard University.  I talked with Niles Eldridge when he came
to Pensacola and spoke at the University of West Florida.  I came to hear him
speak and even helped him fix his slide projector.  I was real nice to the guy.
 After he gave a boring lecture on evolution for about an hour, I went up to
him and gave him my card.  I said, Dr. Eldridge, I know that you strongly
believe in evolution.  It is obvious from your presentation, and I have read
some of your work.  On the back of my business card, it states, Ill pay $10,000
 for anybody with empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution.  I went
on to say, I know that you believe very strongly in evolution.  If you ever get
any real proof for it, give me a call.  Ill pay you $10,000.  That night he was
speaking to the UWF students and teachers on the dangers of creationism in
America.  I was in the next building speaking to a group of students and
teachers on creationism at the same time.  I had ten times more people in my
crowd than he had in his, and he held up my business card for his crowd.  He
said, This is an example of what I mean when I say how dangerous creationism
is.  This guy says there is no evidence for evolution.  There is lots of
evidence for evolution.  They always say that, and I say, Show me some.
They will say, Well, there is just lots of it.  Ill say, Show me one.
They will say, Theres just lots of it.   They never present any evidence
because there isn't any.

I corresponded with Stephen Gould to try to schedule a debate for October 
1993, and he refused.  I was going to speak near Harvard and contacted him
to schedule a debate punctuated equilibrium.  The idea they present is called
punctuated equilibrium, that is, there is no evidence for gradual change.
There are no missing links.  Therefore, evolution must have happened rapidly.
In other words, a lizard laid an egg, and a chicken hatched out.  That is the
general idea behind punctuated equilibrium.

What this really says is, Since we cant find any missing links, so that proves
evolution happened rapidly.  Since there is no proof, that proves it. There are
two ways to look at that.  It might prove that evolution didnt happen at all,
but that is not allowed to be discussed.  This is what is being taught in our
textbooks.

Question. What can I do to change what is being published in public school
textbooks

Nobody has time to read all the textbooks unless that is their full-time job.
Ron and Norma Gabler are great Christians that live in Longview, Texas.  They
read  and write a review of every textbook that comes out stating what is good
and what is not.  Typically, public schools buy one course every year.  They
will buy science books one year; then the next year English books; and the next
year history.  They rotate and the books last about six years.  Out of the
fifty states in America, twenty-two have a state textbook selection committee
who meets to select textbooks.  There are probably twenty publishers that want
to sell their books; so, they send a sample copy to the state textbook
selection committee.  Texas and California are the big ones the publishers
solicit.  The state textbook selection committee looks at the twenty different
publishers, and they pick out five or six approved books.  These selected books
are then sent to the county; then, the county textbook selection committee has
to pick from that list of five.  Some states do not even have a state textbook
selection committee; so, the counties can pick any book they want.

What happens is, people like the Gablers review the books.  A publisher such as
Prentice Hall produces a book, and there will be many mistakes in it such as
typographical errors.  The Gablers spot these errors, and they will write to
Prentice Hall, and say, Sorry, you have 415 errors in this book.  Before you
can present it to Texas for consideration, we want all of these errors
corrected.  The publisher may have already printed eight-million books.  They
will say, Okay, we will fix them.  They fix them, and print the second edition.The first edition with all the mistakes will be sold to the other states.
They have to get rid of them somewhere.  You probably will not find any of
the books that are real strong on the creationist stand and against evolution.
You can at least get some that are not so blatantly anti-Christian.  Of the
twenty available books, there will be a range from bad to really bad; so, pick
the bad ones instead of the really bad ones for your children.  In the mean
time, you can write to the other publishers that you reject.  You can say to
them, We did not select your book because on page eighty four you mentioned
evolution as a proven fact.  Evolution is not a proven fact.  If you were to
remove statements of this type, we might consider your book in the future.  All
the publisher wants is money.  They are trying to sell their books.  It is a
business.  If they get responses from Christians by the thousands from across
the country saying, We did not choose your book because...  They will change
what is published in the books.  It is really the textbook publisher that has
put evolution in and has taken God out, and we have let it happen.  It is 100
percent our fault.  

Question. How did the second law of thermodynamics apply in the Garden of
Eden?

The second law of thermodynamics  states that everything tends to fall apart,
and break down or get worse with time.  I would say that in the original
creation that the second law of thermodynamics did not apply.  Everything was
preserved by the Lord.  The Bible says in II Peter chapter 3 that the earth is
being reserved today for judgment.  God is preserving things to some extent.
Things are steadily winding down.  The earth is slowing down.  The sun is
burning up.  I don't believe that the second law of thermodynamics operated in
the original creation.  God intended for them to live forever.  They could
have lived and not aged -- forever.

Question. Is there such a thing as global warming

You will find many scientists who argue that the earth is cooling off, and we
are going into another ice age.  I believe that man has abused the environment
to some degree. There is no question that we have not been careful with the
environment.  I do not think that we ought to pollute the environment, but
should the government be the big brother to regulate that, is another question.
I say, No!  I think that there is a whole lot more smoke than there is fire to
the environmentalist movement.  

What I think happened is, the hippies of the sixties are now the college
professors.  They are still radical Communists who still want to destroy this
country.  One of the things they must do to be successful is bankrupt this
country, make the currency useless, and put the people in poverty.
Environmental issues are a great way to bankrupt the country.  They can put
smog controls on your car that make your car cost an extra two-thousand
dollars and still be less efficient.  When it breaks down, you cannot fix it
yourself.  Try to take your distributor or your carburetor apart as compared
to the older cars.  What they should do, instead of putting all these
pollution control devices on the cars so they get less pollution per gallon,
which causes them to get fewer miles per gallon, is give rewards.  For
example, if a car maker produces a car that will get fifty miles per gallon,
they would not be required to include any pollution control devices on that
vehicle.  There are many carburetors that have been designed that will get
two-hundred miles per gallon.  The Pogue carburetor was designed back in the
1930s, and it allowed a vehicle to get well over two-hundred miles per
gallon on any vehicle.  Mr. Pogue was bought out, and is no longer allowed
to build the carburetor.  Standard Oil and some of the other big oil
companies didnt want people getting two-hundred miles per gallon.  They sel
gasoline; so, they offered Mr. Pogue eight-million dollars for his design.
They parked the design on the shelf.  

The environmentalist issue is a smoke screen for Communist activity to get more
control so that you have to get a permit for everything.  You will have to get
permission from big brother, the government.  The ozone is not a problem.  The
ozone hole is a natural occurring phenomenon.  It fluctuates all the time. 
The ozone is thicker now than it was thirty years ago.  There is no ozone over
Antarctica because there doesn't need to be ozone there because the sunlight
never shines directly on that area.  Sunlight causes the formation of ozone,
which, by the way, is poisonous.  It is true that aerosols destroy ozone.  One
volcano can do more damage to the ozone in one day than all of humanity has
done in all of  history combined.  They now put regulations on man like,
getting rid of R-12 refrigerant, and using a very costly and inefficient
replacement.  Automobile air conditioners cost $900 more in 1993 than the did
in 1992 due to the different refrigerants that are now required all because
R-12 destroys ozone.  Now, everybody has to pay $900 more, work all those
extra hours,  drive all those extra miles, and pollute the environment even
more so we can earn that extra $900.  It is counter productive, and it is silly.

I think that we should protect the environment.  I try very hard.  I am not a
radical about it, but I am cautious to take care of what God has given us.
 I recycle as much as I can.  There is more smoke than fire, and the real
purpose for the environmental movement is control, not to save the environment.
That is not what they really want.

Question.	How do they know which bones go together when they put the
skeletons together?

If you saw a tangled up pile of bones, it would be pretty tough to know how
to connect them.  There were many goofs made in the early days when putting
bones together.  I think most of those are pretty well worked out today.
Have you ever seen a Keyser automobile; a car built in the 1950s?  Suppose
I asked you to go to a junkyard and find a Kaiser that has been smashed.  I
want you to look around all the different junkyards and find thirty or
forty different Kaisers.   You will find that some are smashed on the right
side and some are smashed on the left, some on the top, and some in the
front.  By looking at thirty different wrecked Keysers, I want you to draw
me a sketch of what you think a Kaiser looks like. 

You could do that.  If you saw enough of them in fragments, you could get
the picture pretty soon.  That is kind of what they have done with
dinosaur bones.  They find a leg here, a backbone there, and sometimes
the whole back end of one will be found.  Sometimes they find the front
end of one.  Through the years, they have worked that out pretty well. 
I don't believe that it is worth arguing about dinosaur anatomy.  They
probably have them together right.  There may be some more goofs, but it
isn't worth arguing about.  As far as which bone goes where, sometimes
they are found together.  If you find one set together, and then you find
another pile of bones, you could compare those bones to the completed set
that was found.  

Question. Why wouldn't the ice meteor melt as it entered the atmosphere?

If you had three-hundred degrees below zero snow, and enough of it, it would
be overwhelming.  It would be like spraying water on a fire, some of it becomes
vaporized, but if you spray enough of it, some will soak in.  This ice meteor
is just a theory, and I cannot prove it.  The concept of the ice meteor did
not originate with me.  There is a great book on this subject from the 1960s
called The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epic.  It is about a four-hundred page
book devoted to the ice-meteor theory.  It does, however, solve a lot of
problems.

Question. What is or who is the Illuminati?

There are many good books written on the Illuminati.  These books refer to a
conspiracy.  There is definitely a conspiracy, but I don't think that it is a
human conspiracy.  I don't believe there is a smoke-filled room where a group
of men get together, and decide to teach evolution in all the schools.  I
believe that it is at a much higher level.  I believe that it is a Satanic
conspiracy.  The reason these different people come to the same conclusion
is not because they all met together; it is because they all work for the
devil.  He is their leader and they don't even know it.  It is a spiritual
war, not a physical war.  Individuals like the Rockefellers, and the
Rothchilds, and other millionaires, are not the enemy.  We can love them
and win them to the Lord.  The public school teachers, and professors that
are teaching evolution, are not the enemy.  Win them to the Lord.  They 
can be saved like anybody else.  The devil is the enemy.

Public school teachers are allowed to teach creation in the class room.
 Write to the Institute for Creation Research in California.  Their
publishing house is Master Books, and they have a toll free number
(800-999-3777) if you would like to get their catalog.  You can get the
back issues of Impact Articles for ten cents each.  They started printing
monthly publications back in 1977.  They have some fascinating articles.
They are up to article number 260 now, so you could send them about $26
and get all the back issues for the past fifteen years.  This is tremendous
 research material.  In one of the back issues, they feature the 1972 Supreme
Court decision.  In 1972 Louisiana passed a law that required teachers to
teach creationism.  The ACLU (The American Communist Lawyers Association, no,
I'm sorry, its the Anti-Christian Lawyers Association) had a big law suit
over it, and it went to the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court ruled that
the Louisiana law was unconstitutional.  The judges said that the law was
not necessary because teachers already have the right to teach creationism.
Any public school teacher that wants to read the Bible story to their
children about the creation is allowed.  Boys and girls our textbook says
the world evolved over billions of years.  There are many different
philosophies or theories on how the world got here.  Let me read you
another one that many people believe.  

You can, by law, read the Bible account of creation in the public school class
room.  If somebody says that you cant, they are mistaken.  Children, if
somebody gives you a hard time about reading your Bible in school, or
witnessing in school, or passing out tracts in the public school, you need to
get the book, Students Legal Rights on a Public School Campus by J. W. Brinkley.
 Students have rights.  It is unbelievable what the students can do.  The
teachers are limited somewhat.  Did you know that students have a right to be
exempt from a class that is teaching something that is contrary to their
beliefs?  If they are teaching evolution in the class room, you have a right
to be exempt.  The students can carry their Bible to class.  They can write
papers on religious themes.  They can witness to other students.  They can
hold Bible school, and they can have Bible clubs.  If your school allows any
other club, like a chess club, or drama club, you can have a Bible club.  If
they say that you cant, you let me know.  I will put you in touch with the
right people that can straighten them out.  There are lawyers, like John
Whitehead with the Rutherford Institute, that would be a great help to you.
We need to stand up for what is right.  The Apostle Paul appealed to Caesar.
Parents and students need to be aware of their rights.  We need to get busy
or we are going to lose those rights.  

Question. To what extent is genetic engineering possible?

Much research and advancement have been made in genetic engineering.  They
have been doing gene splicing, developing disease resistant tomatoes, and
those sorts of things.  As far as taking DNA from a mosquito, and making a
brachiosaurus for Jurassic Park, that is a long way off if it is even
possible at all.  As far as cloning goes, it is defiantly not being done,
and probably would be an impossibility.

I was at a university to speak to a group of hostile students who all
believed in evolution.  One of the students said, What would you say if they
could make life in the laboratory?  How about it, what would you say then?
I said, Well, that would prove that it takes a lot of intelligence to create
life.  Wouldnt it?  It would take a lot of design and intelligence.  Im not
going to say that they are not ever going to be able to do it, but if they
did, it certainly would not prove evolution.  It would prove creation.

I don't know how far they are going to go in genetic engineering.  Im a little
nervous that they might develop a germ for which there is no antidote.
I would be very cautious when messing with the genetic structure.  There
may be great physical repercussions from developing something that cannot
be controlled.

Question. What about the zodiac, the gospel in the stars?

I believe that the zodiac is the gospel in the stars.  When God first made this
world they did not have a Bible.  Apparently the symbols or the patterns in the
stars, the constellations, depict the gospel story.  It starts with Virgo the
virgin, and how she brought forth a son.

Apparently when God made the world he put the gospel in the stars, and that
was the first Bible.  To make sure the information was not lost through
history, some of the wise men, possibly Adam, Enoch, or somebody else
before the flood, built the Sphinx in Egypt.  The Sphinx is the face of a
 woman with the body of a lion, symbolizing how the zodiac begins with
Virgo the virgin, and ends with Leo the lion.  To make sure that knowledge
was not totally lost after the flood, some very wise men, possibly Noah and
Shem who lived hundreds of years after the flood, built the Great Pyramid to
preserve a lot of the wisdom of the ancient, and to preserve the gospel
until we had a written Bibl

This may sound far fetched to you, but I believe if you were to study more
of the zodiac it would fascinate you.  Just the mathematics that is involved
would cause you to say, WOW!  Satan, of course, has stolen the glory and
perverted it.  Today, it is the horoscope.  They worship the stars instead l.
of studying the stars.  The pyramid is now the symbol for the Illuminati,
and the symbol for the New World Order.  It was originally for the Lord.

Question. What really happened to David Koresh?

There is no question that the guy was a screwball and a cult leader, but do
you know who really attacked the Koresh cult?  Did you know that the black
suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task
force?  There is a United Nations task force, including 300,000 foreign
troops in America.  Their job is to be prepared to put down resistance and
rebellion, especially among cults.  If you happen to believe the Bible, send
your children to a Christian school, rebel, hoard guns, ammunition or food,
or are nervous about the government, you are considered to be a dangerous
cult in their minds.  

I heard a man give his testimony who manages a mental institution.  He told me
that the government pays him to keep 60 percent of his beds empty.  They do
this because they think there is going to be a great influx in the near future.
They are going to have to round up masses of people just as Hitler did, and
put them in mental institutions because they are going to be insane.  Guess
who they think are insane?  Christians.  If you believe the Bible, you will
be considered to be insane.  You will spend the next twenty years in a mental
institution.

As a side note, you may be interested to know that the Federal Reserve system
that prints the money is not part of the government, but rather, it is a
private corporation.  They print our paper bills for about two and one half
cents each.  They rent them to the government for face value.  That is one
thing that continually increases the national debt.  We owe money to the
federal reserve system. 


Question.	How did California get creationism taught in  the school system?

This is not only happening in California, but it is taking place all over the
country.  What has happened for instance, in Morton, Illinois, and in Peoria,
Illinois, is that many of the school districts have told their teachers to keep
evolution out of their curriculum.  They are told not to mention it because
they were getting too many complaints.  If a school board member gets four or
five complaints they will do something about it.  That is all they need.
What needs to happen is the Christians need to complain, and that is not being
done enough.  We have not put on the pressure.  Madelyn Murray OHare was just
one person, and she got prayer out of the entire US school system because of
her persistence.  I don't think that Christians ought to try to get prayer and
creationism into the schools.  I think that we ought to try to get evolution
out of our school systems.  don't mention creation.  don't go to you school
board and say, Hey, I think that we ought to teach the Bible in school!
Do this instead.
Say, Wait a minute!  We cant teach evolution.  It is a religion.
They say that we cant teach religion in schools, but we are already teaching
religion.  Evolution is a religion, not a proven or provable science.  I
would hit very hard at that.  Here is what is going to happen.  When you
start hitting hard at evolution to get it out of the textbooks, they are
going to say, Wait a minute!  How about if we teach both?  You can then
settle for that.  Creationism taught along side of evolution will show
evolution to be ridiculous.  don't go in asking to teach both because they
will not do it.  You need to get them to make the compromise.

What happened in Vista, California was the Christians there became concerne
and elected Christians to the school board majority.  They now have three
Bible-believing Christians on the board and two that are not.  They have
a majority, and they simply voted in a resolution that states, If you are
going to talk about origins, you must also include discussions on
creationism.  That is fair.  Actually the discussion of origins has
nothing to do with school, and teachers should not touch it.  It has more
to do with religion instead.  Many districts around the country have taken
this approach.  Parkview school district in the St. Louis area did the 
same thing.  Christians took over the school board and voted in creationism.
That can be done in any school district anywhere, and it ought to be done.

There is something happening at a bigger level that is going to bypass all
of that.  There is a very strong movement that has a lot of steam behind
it to get a nationalized curriculum.  It is called Goals 2000.  Do whatever
you can within the law to keep your school out of the Goals 2000 program.
You don't want in that program.  It is going to be big brother deciding what
your children learn, what propaganda they are fed.  The solution is going 
to sound radical.  The solution is to close the public school system down.
The national government and the state government should have nothing to do
with education.  Every county should run their own school.  There should be
a local county school district.  None of the money should go to Washington
or the capitol of your state.  It should stay in the county, and the
government should have nothing to do it.  We should push for less government,
less national and state government, and push for more local control.

All of the efforts to take over the school boards, I believe, will be undercut
when they get a nationalized school board and a nationalized curriculum.
Children can get evolution out of their schools.  If they to look ahead in
their textbook , and see that evolution is going to be taught, they can say,
Hey, thats not what I believe.  They can go home and talk to their parents,
they should be sweet, be kind, be Christian about it, not make a big stink,
not embarrass their teacher in front of the class, but get their parents to
go to the principal and say, In two weeks they are going to be discussing this
chapter on evolution.  I do not want my child taught that.  I want my child to
be exempt.  If 85 percent of the class is absent that day, pretty soon they
will figure out that they need to skip that part of the curriculum because
nobody wants to learn it.

If you are a Christian in a school system you should be a good student.  If you
are a goof off and a trouble maker and a lazy student, don't tell them you are
a Christian.  You are not helping. Do your best.Don't get in trouble.  Be nice.
Be obedient.Be a straight A student if you can.  When you do these things, your
testimony will mean something.  You can always witness to your teacher.  Your
teacher might already be saved.  All of the teachers in your school might be
saved.  Maybe you need to give some tape or books to the teachers or school
board members, and say, Would you watch this and tell me what you think?
Give them one of my video tapes or this book. This is something that any
student can do with their teacher.  You need to convert them.  They are not
the enemy.  Some are very sincere and want to help, but they are just
teaching what they have been taught.  You need to expose them to the
creationist material.  They may have never heard of it.  In order to teach
in a public school, you have to get your degree from a public university.
In doing so, the evolutionists preserve what they want taught.  We just
need to break the cycle.  

Question. How did the mountains rise and the valleys sink as the Bible says?

I think that the earths crust was cracked, possibly from a number of factors.
It could have been from the impact of the ice meteor that was discussed in
chapter five.  Maybe it occurred from the fountains of the deep breaking up.
The fault lines might be the rips in the earths crust where it actually broke
and allowed the fountains of the deep through.  Once there is a break in the
rock it is able to shift and float a little bit.  It might have been caused
by natural forces from the weight of the water causing some spots to lift up,
and others sinking down.  Nobody in geology questions the idea of continents
rising and sinking.  The evolutionists say that it happened millions of times
down through the years causing new layers;  whereas, the creationists say that
all the layers were formed in a year, and then they rose up after the flood.

Neither one can be proved scientifically.  In order for it to be scientific it
has to be observable, testable, and demonstrable.  Evolution is none of those,
and neither is creationism.  Therefore, I cannot scientifically prove
creationism.  That is why it states on my business card that Ill pay $10,000
for anybody with evidence for evolution.  This is what they always tell me,
Well, no! We cant prove evolution.  Can you prove creationism.  That is
exactly what I was hoping they would say.  I would say, No, I can't prove
creationism.  I just believe in it.  You are admitting that you cant prove
evolution.  You believe in it, right?  He will say, Okay, we cannot prove it
scientifically.  I will say, Since neither of us can prove what we strongly
believe in, both us have a belief system, both of us really have a religion.
 They will say, Yes, you are right.  We both have a religion.  I will say,
Okay then, I have a question.  Why do we all have to pay for your religion
to be taught in the school system?  Ah ha!  STRIKE!  That is exactly the
point.  I cant prove creationism, but they cant prove evolution.  It is a
religion, so it should not be taught.  

Question. How did salt water fish come about if the oceans were once fresh
water?

Some of the fish would have been killed in the flood, but not all of them.
 There was plenty of water in the seas.  The catastrophes would have been
in the local areas where the fountains of the deep broke up, and there was
volcanic activity.  There was no doubt a large population of fish killed,
but some survived.  Noah did not have to have fish on the ark.

I believe that the oceans were all fresh water prior to the flood.  After the
flood, the salts began leaching out of the continents into the oceans, and
the rivers contained some salts that were carried to the oceans.  It is a
fact that the oceans are getting saltier every  day.  The fish have gradually
adjusted to that salt.

There is a man in Minnesota that has two huge aquariums in his home, one is
a salt water aquarium, and the other is fresh water.  Over about a ten-year
period, he slowly decreased the amount of salt in the salt water aquarium.
Normally, there should be about 3.6 percent salt.  As he slowly brought the
saltwater down lower and lower, he slowly added salt to the fresh water.
 In about ten years, he was able to get both of them to about half salinity,
and then he mixed all the fish together.  They are doing fine.

I believe over a 4,000 years span, some of the animals have gradually learned
to live in the salt.  They have adapted to their environment, which has nothing
to do with evolution.  There are salt water crocodile and fresh water crocodile,
which are totally different species, but they are still crocodiles.  They are
no longer inner-fertile, they cannot breed together, but they are still the
same kind of animal.  That is a variation within the created kind.  There are
salt water bass and fresh water bass.  I believe that there has been an
adaptation that has taken place in the past 4,400 years after the flood.

Question. Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order?

Absolutely!  There are those who really object to nationalities.  Part of the
globalist movement is to get people to think globally instead of nationally.
Nationalism like, I love America! is really offensive to the globalists.
They want to get you to get rid of the I love America! and get you to say I
love the world! .  They want to get all the children involved in the Save
the Planet, Plant a Tree, Go Hug a Tree.  Watch out for the globalist
movement, and the ridicule and the eventual persecution of nationalist,
the people who love a country instead of the world.  There are those who are
strongly committed to the globalist movement.

Question. How did volcanoes erupt?

Apparently, the inside of the earth is liquid, hot, molten rock, and if there
are cracks in the earths crust, the pressure build up will force this molten
rock through those cracks.  Nobody knows what triggers an eruption.  Sometimes
there is an earthquake first, and it cracks the rock allowing the molten rock
to squirt out.  Sometimes it just flows out slowly making a nice big pile.
The Hawaiian volcanoes are not very violent as a rule.  The lava from these
volcanoes just flows out kind of slow, while others blow up.  Krakatoa, a
volcano in Java near Vietnam, blew up in 1883.  It was such a bad explosion
that it made a tidal wave.  The tidal wave traveled almost two-thousand miles
an hour.  It crossed the Indian ocean and hit Madagascar and killed 36,000
people.  They were not even near the eruption, but the eruption had
far-reaching effects.  Some are nice and gentle; while others are not so
nice and gentle.

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Kent Hovind claims to possess a masters
degree and a doctorate in education from Patriot
University in Colorado. Formerly affiliated with Hilltop
Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Patriot
University is accredited ONLY by the American Accrediting
Association of Theological Institutions, an accreditation
mill that provides accreditation for a $100 charge.

Patriot University has moved to Alamosa, Colorado and
continues to offer correspondence courses for $15 to $32
per credit. The school's catalog contains course
descriptions but no listing of the school's faculty or
their credentials. Name It and Frame It lists Patriot
University as a degree mill.

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