One of the most popular recruiting tools for the flat earth community
is the Robbie Davidson movie "Scientism Exposed." This movie has been
posted to youtube for free and the flat earth community has been pushed
for recognition all across the web. Not surprisingly, its a cesspool of
fundamentalist slogans from the creationist movement, half assed
conspiracy theories and bizarre claims.
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| Robbie Davidson |
The movie was directed, produced and narrated by Robbie Davidson, a
leading "light" in the flat earth community. Davidson, has been a
fundamentalist since he was a very young man and doesn't seem to have
ever questioned or even thought critically about his beliefs. He was
deeply influenced by Kent Hovind, a well known tax protestor and pseudo
scientific crazy person. Of course, Hovind is considered a scientific
genius by the flat earth community. Hovind's influence is important
because despite Davidson being the maker of the movie, all the arguments
are Hovinds.
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| Kent Hovind |
Davidson not only posts huge chunks of Hovind's creation seminars, he
parrots Hovind's arguments word for word when Hovind is off screen. This
even applies to the fundamental argument of the film, that science
isn't a methodology and collection of facts derived from that movie, it
is in fact a cult, a religion. This is, of course ridiculous, not least
because Davidson and Hovind both acknowledge that Christians can believe
both in God and Evolution. Therefore how can it be a false religion?
The rest of the movie is a rambling collection of conspiracy theories
and victimhood about how bad the fundamentalist has been treated. In
summary, I'm just not impressed. Davidson is desperate to avoid having
to think rationally about his theology or his worldview and therefore is
willing to salt the earth of logic and science in order to keep himself
in a nice warm position of ignorance.
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