The person who posted this video is a creationist moron. The dodgy intro at the beginning of this film just adds to its craptastic nature.
If anyone thinks this is a plesiosaur, I hate to burst your bubble, but it’s a decomposing basking shark.
The proteins from this animal were analyzed, and it’s a basking shark. The whole carcass thrown back into the ocean, but its proteins were shown to have 96 percent chance of being a basking shark. Ergo, we can say that it’s a basking shark.
Kent Hovind, the great tax law expert and mother of all creatards, took this finding to mean that it was only 96 percent basking shark. The other 4 percent was something else– must be plesiosaur!
But it’s not a freaking plesiosaur!
It’s a basking shark.
Yeah, and I s’pose he thinks that little people are part Leprechaun too?
I’d give Hovind the benefit of a doubt and posit that it just didn’t occur to him that the result was only 96% basking shark because it was decomposing (and I’ll bet he didn’t ask what the other 4% was either.) But in fact, I strongly suspect that he was once again engaging in willful ignorance, i.e., if I click my heels together 3 times and pray really hard, it’ll turn out to be a plesiosaur. The same faulty mentation is too often used in regard to global climate change, overpopulation and the dumbing-down of America, to name just a few examples.
There is no way to counter willful ignorance–its another faith-based mind-set. Its not that these people are inherently stupid, but rather that they choose to ignore facts in favor of wishes or preferences–again and again and again. You can tell when you’re dealing with someone operating in this mode because his/her arguments will almost always begin and end with “I feel”, “I believe”, or “I have faith”.
Sometimes I truly despair for the human race.
Seriously? A plesiosaure? OMG That is pathetic!