For me, personally, no one ever had to convince me of anything, concerning beliefs, and then there was the chance that even if they shared an opinion with me, that's all it would be, ...is THEIR opinion, because the only truth I accept is the Bible, everything is, just speculative, in my opinion.
I recommend Kent Hovind; All of my beliefs are based on what the Bible says, my eyes see, and my gut instinct is telling me, so long as what I see, does not contradict with what the Bible says. Kent Hovind just backs up what I already believe, for example, that the Earth is not billions of years old, not even 1 million, probably not even 20,000 years, and Dinosaurs existed with man, were vegetarian up until Noah's Ark, when God said, ...animals are gonna be afraid of you now! At that point they became meat eaters!
Guess we have to ask ourselves, why wasn't Adam & Eve covered with leather, instead of leaves? Other things may
possibly be answered, such as how did the Egyptians build those giant Pyramids, maybe Elephants, or maybe dinosaurs, who knows, only God.
I like Kent Hovind, has some good messages, if you can get past the "buy my cd's", God bless the man, but if I want something I'll buy it, assuming I can even afford it... He's a good guy, and one point I would like to point out, is that, it's okay to have differences between Christians, so long as what we disagree with is not condemning to the soul, Paul spoke out against the Church being separated by doctrines and petty squabbles.
For instance, I'm not going to go to hell if I can't explain the Book of Revelations, but telling someone that Baptism is not necessary, because times change and God adjusts Himself accordingly based on our disposition, is sinful. Some people believe Baptism is not necessary because they bring up Paul, and how Paul never baptize, even that is not true, because Paul did baptize a few individuals, ...the deal is, Paul was famous, and did not want any one to boast of having been baptized by Paul, so he handed the task down to others to perform, and even then, it doesn't really matter what so and so said, or didn't say, because Jesus Christ overwrites all of them...
What did Jesus say regarding Baptism?
Unless ye be born of water and the spirit you will not see the Kingdom of God!
In summary, it's okay to disagree, or simply not know, or understand everything, in the Bible, as long as the issue is not condemning to the soul. I don't believe in a few points from Hugh Ross, but if he confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord, believes in his heart that Jesus was raised from the dead, then he shall be saved. I won't sweat the small differences, lets us as Christians come together on what we agree with, not be separated by what we disagree on!