100 Reasons Evolution is So Stupid!
Dr. Kent Hovind

	Teacher for 15 years. Now, for 12 years, I've been an evangelist, and I travel around and speak on creation, evolution, and dinosaurs. Honor to be here in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. My first time to preach in your city. How many of you have been to one of my seminars before or seen one of my tapes before? Oh, quite a few, okay. How many have not? And how many do not understand the question so far? Okay, that's what I thought. Well, great. It's an honor to be here.

	Um, I tell folks right up front before I get started too far (because I don't want anybody sneaking up on me): I believe the Bible is the infallible, inspired, inerrant word of the living God. I believe it from cover to cover. I even believe the cover on mine! It says, "Kent Hovind." I believe that. And what I try to do in my seminars, I have three distinct goals. Number one, I want to strengthen your faith in the Word of God. Number two, if you're not saved, I'm gonna try to get you saved. I'm after you. I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm after you. Number three, if you're saved, and you're not doing much for the Lord, then I'm gonna try to make you uncomfortable. Everybody ought to find something to do for the Lord, okay? The worst of you could serve as bad examples, if nothing else. But you all find something to do for the Lord.

	Alright, this, uh, this is not my wife. This is just a picture of her. We live in Pensacola, Florida. I've been there 12 years. We have 3 kids, one of each. My kids are, at this time, 21, 22, 23 - a year and two weeks apart. We call that "family planning" where I come from. Got the two boys married off now, and as soon as I find someone to take over payments on my daughter, I'm gonna be home free. So, uh, that's the plan.

	One of my hobbies, for many years, I have been collecting science books. I like science. And you can ask me, any of my kids, ask my wife, when I get bored (which isn't too often around our place), I just read science books. I like science. Taught it for 15 years. Even though I'm not teaching it any more, I still like to study it. There's so many neat things to learn! And there's an awful lot of good science in these books. But folks, there are some bad lies in our science books. I'm not against science, I'm not against schools, I'm not against teachers. My brother's in his 34th year teaching public school. My mom retired from teaching public school. There's an awful lot of good godly teachers in the system, but there is some poison in these books, and we're gonna cover some of that tonight.

	Richard Dawkins, who hates creationists, said, "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet someone who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked)." Hmm. Well, Richard, I'll send you a copy of this tape. Because I'm gonna show you 100 reasons why evolution is so stupid.

	We need to define a few terms, okay? According to the dictionary, stupid means, "lacking normal intelligence; foolish, silly (a stupid idea); dull and boring." I think evolution is stupid. And my mommy used to get mad at me when I used that word, so it's a little hard for me, but Bill said, "Kent Hovind, I want you to preach on 100 reasons why evolution is stupid." Okay, Bill. Well, you asked for it. So here goes, alright?

	Let's define some other terms now, okay? "Evolution" has at least six different meanings. I've done 58 debates now, and if you're gonna get into a debate on evolution with anybody, you better first define what you're talking about, because this is a very slippery term, okay? First we have cosmic evolution. That would be the Big Bang. There is no evidence whatsoever for that - we'll get into that in just a moment.

	Then we'd have to have chemical evolution. See, the Big Bang supposedly made hydrogen - well, how did we get 92 elements, plus the synthetic ones? I mean, how did the chemicals evolve? They don't talk about that much, but that would have to happen.

	Thirdly, we'd have to have stellar and planetary evolution. Did you know the stars would have to evolve? There's an awful lot of stars out there, folks, but nobody's ever seen one form. There's enough stars out there that everybody on earth can personally own two trillion of them. We've never seen one star forming. We see them blow up from time to time - it's called a nova or a supernova -  but we've never seen one form. One professor told me one time, he said, "Well, we calculate in a laboratory that if 20 stars explode near each other, it'll produce enough energy to make a brand-new star." I said, "Well, that's brilliant, you gotta lose 20 to gain 1! You ought to run for Congress! You could help those guys borrow their way out of debt!" Man! First place, that's all theoretical! We've never seen it happen, okay? And I think it is scientifically impossible.

	You see, then we'd have to have organic evolution. That would be the origin of life. How did life get started from nonliving material? Now, according to the evolution theory, that would have to happen somewhere along the line, long ago and far away. Life had to come from nonliving material. And yet we've never seen that happen. There is no evidence that it can happen. We'll talk about that in a minute.

	Fifthly, we would have macroevolution. That is where an animal changes into a different kind of animal. Nobody's ever seen a dog produce a non-dog! But the evolutionist believes a dog came from a rock, if you go back far enough in time, 4.6 billion years.

	Finally, we have microevolution. I don't like this word, okay? Because it gets people confused. I think we just ought to call it a "variation." But microevolution happens, folks. That is a fact of science. Animals produce a variety of offspring, but it's always the same kind.

	The first five definitions of evolution are stupid. It doesn't happen. It's certainly not part of science. It's something you have to believe in. They teach the kids it all started with the Big Bang, 20 billion years ago! A Big Bang! I like to ask them some simple questions. Uh, what exploded? And where did it come from? And where did the energy come from? Etcetera, etcetera. According to the Big Bang theory, it all started with a little tiny dot that exploded and spread out over all the universe much faster than the speed of light. Well, the Big Bang theory, as we'll see in a minute, is stupid. I don't know of any better way to say it. I'm trying to be nice to them. But it is just stupid.

	The Big Bang idea started with a Belgian astronomer named George something. (Can't pronounce his last name.) George said that this original matter was no more than a few light-years in diameter. At the very least, that could be two, or about twelve trillion miles. So he started teaching that a spot twelve million miles across was what exploded. Well, they revised that down. In 1965, they said, "No, it was only 275 million miles across." Well, that's way down from twelve trillion! 1972, they said, "No, it's only 71 million miles across." I don't know how they know this stuff, but this is how they taught, okay? In 1974, they said it was only 54 thousand miles across. In 1983, they said it was the "trillionth of the diameter of a proton." Now, they're saying it's nothing at all! Nothing exploded, and here we are! That's what the textbooks teach. "18 to 20 billion years ago all the matter in the universe was concentrated into one very dense, very hot region that may have been much smaller than a period on this page." That's stupid. This one says, someday, "all of the matter and energy will once again be packed into a small area no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. Then another big bang will occur." It happens every "80 to 100 billion years!" So you can forget about global warming, we're gonna get squished!

	Now, this textbook author was brilliant. I could not believe how smart this guy was. He said, "Boys and girls, nothing really means nothing." You have to be at least that smart to write a book. He said, "Not only matter and energy would disappear, but also space and time. However, physicists theorize that from this state of nothingness the universe began in a gigantic explosion." What? Yes, boys and girls, you see, nothing exploded and, uh, here we are! Who can argue with logic like that? Man!

	They even put this in nature and science journals like Scientific American! This fellow said, "The observable universe" - that would be us - "could have evolved" - there's that word again, you gotta watch that one, six meanings - "from an infinitesimal region." In, uh, Greek, that means a, uh, dot. "It's then tempting to go one step further and speculate that the entire universe evolved from literally nothing." They call that science and put it in a science book! I would call that stupid and put it in the garbage!

	This is what the books teach. I collect them. I've got hundreds and hundreds of these books from countries all over the world, clear back from 1890s all the way to 2001 textbooks. They're teaching this kind of stuff, folks! This one says, "All the matter in the universe was drawn into this little tiny dot, and it spun faster and faster." This is what they teach the kids. Some kids are doing this for homework tonight! Right? It spun, faster and faster, one day boom! It exploded! Big Bang!

	I was talking to a professor from Berkeley one time. I was sitting on an airplane next to a professor from Berkeley University. I don't know if you folks here in Idaho have ever heard of Berkeley or not. But, uh, Berkeley is not a Bible college. We got talking about the Big Bang, and he said he believed in the Big Bang Theory. I said, "Yes sir, I figured that you have to to teach at Berkeley." I said, "Tell me, sir, how did the universe get here?" He said, "Well, 20 billion years ago, all the matter was squished in this little tiny dot. It was spinning real fast, and then it exploded. Big Bang. And the pieces flew off and became the galaxies and the sun and the moon and the stars and the planets, and, you know, people. Here we are." I said, "Sir, could I ask you a couple questions, please?"

	You know, one of my favorite things to do in life is to ask questions to people who believe in evolution. I absolutely have a wonderful - that's how this whole ministry started! 12 years ago, I moved to Pensacola, Florida. Soon an article came out in the newspaper that said, "Dinosaur Bones Found in Montana from 80 Million Years Ago." I wrote my first letter to the editor in my life about 12 years ago. I wrote a letter to the editor, I said, "Yes, they found dinosaur bones, and yes, it was 40 feet long, and yes, it was found in Montana, but it was not from 80 million years ago. This one probably drowned in the days of Noah 4,400 years ago." And you would've thought I shot the sacred cow! Actually, I did. Boy, there began to be quite a battle in the newspaper, letters to the editor flying back and forth. Finally, a university called me, and asked me to do a debate with one of their professors. Well, I'd never had a debate in my life, except with my wife, and I lost those every time. I was - I was not excited about debating. But, uh, I said, "How do you do it? What do you want?" Well, the guy said, "Well, you send us 30 questions, and the other guy will send in 30 questions, and we'll discuss those questions for the debate." I said, "Okay!" So I sent them 30 questions. I thought they were perfectly legitimate, fair questions! I said, "A woodpecker's tongue goes all the way around the back of his head and comes on top of his left eyebrow, his nostril here. Would you please show me any fossils that have been found - intermediate species between a normal bird and a woodpecker - you know, with his tongue going all the way around his head? What evidence do you have of how this evolved?"