Robbie Davidson

Kent Hovind

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.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.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.