Kent Hovind Quotes


They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help population control. Banning DDT permits more human deaths from insect-born diseases, like malaria.


Context

He was convicted of various felonies including threatening federal officials and sentenced to prison.


Citations

Kent Hovind, Fundamentalist Protestant Minister, Founder of Creation Science Evangelism, 1999

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History has shown that as girls and women get educated and learn about family planning, their children are healthier and have better chances of survival and despite the lower death rate the population trend slows as a result of family planning.


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He was commenting on a proposal many in public health were making of using modern technology, genetic and chemical, to wipe out the mosquito population and thereby eliminate Zika and Malaria, along with other mosquito carried diseases which do terrible damage to humans worldwide. There are some who regard the extinction of a species as a major moral and ethical conundrum. Others worry about the effect on other species if there were no mosquitos. There are many other species, including some birds and fish, that feed on mosquitos and their larvae. The in turn might become endangered or also extinct.


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Kent Hovind
Kent Hovind
  • Born: January 15, 1953
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Evangelist, Christian Theme Park Operator

Kent E. Hovind is an American Christian fundamentalist evangelist and tax protester. He is a controversial figure in the Young Earth creationist movement whose ministry focuses on denial of scientific theories in the fields of biology (evolution), geophysics, and cosmology in favor of a literalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative found in the Bible. Hovind's views, which combine elements of creation science and conspiracy theory, are dismissed by the scientific community as fringe theory and pseudo-scholarship. He is controversial within the Young Earth Creationist movement, and Answers in Genesis openly criticized him for continued use of discredited arguments abandoned by others in the movement.