| − | In 1977, while serving as Captain on board the fishing vessel Zuiyo-maru, [[Kent Hovind]] discovered the decomposing carcass of a Plesiosaur. This was a triumphant find for the Creation-Science movement, since it unequivocally established that dinosaurs had died in the Biblical Flood, rather than being killed by a meteor, as postulated by [[Charles Darwin]], or abducted by aliens, as theorized by [[T.H. Huxley]]. | + | In 1977, while serving as Captain on board the fishing vessel Zuiyo-maru, [[Kent Hovind]] discovered the decomposing carcass of a Plesiosaur<ref>Kent Hovind, "Science or Religion?", Lecture, August 2005</ref>. This was a triumphant find for the Creation-Science movement, since it unequivocally established that dinosaurs had died in the Biblical Flood, rather than being killed by a meteor, as postulated by [[Charles Darwin]], or abducted by aliens, as theorized by [[T.H. Huxley]]. |
| | While it would be instructive to study the carcass further, the Secular Humanists at the Internal Revenue Service confiscated the remains during the arrest of Dr. Hovind, presumably to prevent further investigation in the name of creationism. | | While it would be instructive to study the carcass further, the Secular Humanists at the Internal Revenue Service confiscated the remains during the arrest of Dr. Hovind, presumably to prevent further investigation in the name of creationism. |