#2842: Kevin Fisher

We’ve mentioned some Kevin Fishers over the years, but this one seems to be new to us: The present Kevin Fisher is a fundie pseudohistorian and pseudoarchaeology promoter and, not the least, a disciple and former companion of the late Ron Wyatt. So Fisher believes not only that Noah’s Ark once sailed the Global Flood but that its physical remains have in fact been located. You can read more about it on his website Ark Discovery International (“Featuring the Lord's final show-and-tell demonstration of truth for mankind, which will be shown to the world during the mark of the beast showdown”), which seems to have been designed in five minutes by an otherwise average 12-year-old in 2003, and where you can also buy DVDs about the discoveries learn how to host a billboard (“Noah’s Ark Found”) in your area. The website also contains summaries of the alleged findings as well as responses to critcs: for instance, the criticism that Wyatt was using a hilariously pseudoscientific dowsing device (a ‘molecular frequency generator’) to ‘identify’ metal at the alleged ark finding site is countered by pointing out that “if the device does not work, it would not be on the market after all these years, and selling for such a large price”.

 

But Kevin Fisher doesn’t merely think Wyatt found Noah’s Ark; he can also tell you about the discovery and identification of Sodom and Gomorrah (the evidence is staggering” and even “the absolute proof” – apparently the ‘absolute proof’ is finding balls of sulphur near the Dead Sea), the location of Moses’s Red Sea crossing, and the Ark of the Covenant.

 

Diagnosis: There are a couple of these around, and their incoherent rants sometimes manage to break into the mainstream by virtue of the entertainment value associated with such unbridled insanity and delusion. Otherwise, Fisher and his ilk are probably mostly harmless – indeed, their actvitities might ultimately have a certain positive impact on civilization as well since other creationists seem to feel compelled to take time away from their efforts to ruin public education to respond to them.