Creationist Kent Hovind's PhD thesis is a jumble of juvenile jabber

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Since November 2006 Hovind has been serving a ten-year prison sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield in South Carolina, after being convicted of 58 federal counts, including twelve tax offenses, one count of obstructing federal agents and forty-five counts of structuring cash transactions.



Creationist Kent Hovind's PhD thesis is a jumble of juvenile jabber
By Carol Everhart Roper
May 16, 2010 at 21:08:40

For those who blessedly don't know, Kent Kovind Hovind is a leading voice in the young-earth creationist movement and the builder of the Dinosaur Adventure Land Creationist Theme Park in Pensacola. Where you can ride 'the Leap of Faith' swing. Well, after they reopen, which will be once they get enough money to pay the taxes they 'forgot' to pay.

Hovind claims to be a scientist, however his MA and PhD degrees were granted by Patriot Bible University, which is an unaccredited fundamentalist Christian Correspondence school (it claims it is "Christian" accredited), authorized ONLY to issue "religious degrees'.

Patriot Bible University. All of it. The whole thing. You don't need a lot of room to accept a check and send a diploma! When god is on your side, you don't need all those teachers, buildings, books and silly human stuff.

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Hovind's "dissertation" has been a closely guarded document; contrary to the accepted practice of releasing PhD theses, Patriot and Hovind have refused to share his thesis. However, it is available here. (Note to OpENews readers: The infamous document had been on Wikilinks for some time but apparently has been removed; after extensive searching for a free viewing, I found it at the above link. If you want to write about it, I suggest saving a copy of the pdf for yourself.)

I read the first dozen or so pages and skimmed through the rest. I played a game I rolled my scroll wheel to a random page and read it. Unbelieveable. Each page is truly a gem of inconceiveable irrationality. I would not have allowed my children to hand in something this poor in grade school, much less expect such a pitiful effort for a doctoral thesis.



unhappycamper comment: There's a link to Hovind's thesis in the original story. I read a few pages but had to give it up. Too much Jesus in the morning is bad for my stomach.