Creationist "doctor" faces 288 years in prison!

[mondo joe]

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061103/NEWS01/611030338/1006

Pensacola evangelist and tax protester Kent Hovind winked at his wife and gave her a reassuring smile as he was led away to jail.

Kent Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty of 58 counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He faces a maximum of 288 years in prison.

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Kent Hovind, whose life's mission is to debunk evolution, says he and his employees are workers of God and therefore exempt from paying taxes. He pays his employees in cash and does not withhold their taxes or pay his share as an employer.

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More on Kent Hovind:Although Hovind seems very proud of his doctorate, to the extent of naming his website "drdino.com", it was awarded in "Christian Education" by a theological college of dubious credentials. Patriot Bible University is not accredited by any recognized accreditation agency and is almost certainly a diploma mill. He has no scientific qualifications. He has refused permission for the thesis which earned him his doctorate to be published in full on the Internet, but he cannot prevent people from getting hold of his thesis and reading it, since a thesis is by its nature a public document.

His dissertation has some very odd features for an academic thesis: it has no title; it has no table of contents; the introduction outlines sixteen chapters, but the thesis contains only four; it has no bibliography; pages 50-51 are identical with pages 60-61; page 56 reappears almost word for word as page 63 and page 64; the text is full of scientific howlers such as "geological epic" for "geological epoch", and "centrifical force" for "centrifugal force". Also (and this will annoy readers with real doctorates no end) it contains no original research whatsoever, which is the basis on which a PhD is supposed to be awarded<4>.

http://www.skepticwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Kent_Hovind#His_dubious_education

[Beelzebud]

1. LOL That is great. Kent Hovind is a real loon.

[malaise]

12. Another Rethug? n/t

[NOLADEM]

2. Damn, that's like 1/10th of the entire duration of all history!

:sarcasm:

[Drum]

3. good one!

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

4. So how will he be able to serve his 288 years?

The rest of his life on earth then 230 years in the afterlife? How does that work?

[DeSwiss]

11. Well.....

....http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Methusalah">Methuselah lived for over 900 years. Maybe he got an Old Testament extension from god?

:shrug:

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Ugh. What is it with Pensacola?

I've seen several stories about fundies and other weirdos in and around Pensacola. Used to live not too far from there, wasn't familiar with anything like that.

[chaplainM]

6. centrifical force

Imaginative spelling for an imaginary force.

[silverweb]

7. Love it!

May all frauds encounter such a fate.

:rofl:

[HughBeaumont]

8. Couldn't happen to a nicer childbeater.

This delusional butthole needs to be placed in a rubber room with nothing but videos of hearing himself talk for 23 hours a day. Maybe then he'll see how full of shit his "GAWD did it" stupidity is.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

9. my favorite bit by h\Hovind

was when he analyzed a T-Rex skull and explained that the large sinus cavities was where the gases built up prior to the dragon breathing breathing fire.

Nope. I'm not kidding. I have hours of this shit in mp3 format. it's awesome.

[Luna_C_06]

15. Please, please

Tell me you can post that!

[NYC Liberal]

10. "exempt from paying taxes"

Whatever happened to "render unto Caesar..."? Jesus didn't have a problem with paying taxes.

[struggle4progress]

13. "In closing arguments .. Hovind’s defense attorney

said the Pensacola evangelist was never notified by the IRS that he was violating a specific law by not withholding and paying employment taxes on workers ... Hovind also believes .. he and all employees of the theme park .. are exempt from paying taxes. Assistant U.S. Attorney .. said the case was not about religion but about paying taxes. In her closing .. she said that Kent Hovind was .. told numerous times .. that he must pay taxes .. Defense lawyers .. rested their case .. without presenting evidence or calling witnesses."

November, 2, 2006 'Dr. Dino,' wife guilty
Nicole Lozare
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/NEWS01/611020330/1006


Summary of the "Hovind case at a glance" box at the link: The wife Hovind signed over a million dollars in checks made to CASH, often just below the $10K that triggers bank reporting; on some days, the wife visited the bank twice daily; and Hovind himself pulled out $70K one day, $35K as cash.

[American Jesus]

14. While there's no denying the man is an idiot and a fraud

Doesn't that sentence seem a little steep for tax evasion? :shrug:

[druidity33]

17. from link above...

"Summary of the "Hovind case at a glance" box at the link: The wife Hovind signed over a million dollars in checks made to CASH, often just below the $10K that triggers bank reporting; on some days, the wife visited the bank twice daily; and Hovind himself pulled out $70K one day, $35K as cash."

If this amt of money is involved, and the sentencing guidelines are for each incident (remember, sometimes twice a day)...
well that adds up to a lot of time.

[sakabatou]

16. Worst. Defense. Ever.

[Dob Bole]

18. I've watched one of his videos before...

Basically, he claims that earth is about 6,000 years old and looks older because of damage caused by Noah's flood. He's a former high-school science teacher.

Coincidentally, did anyone see South Park this week?

[sutz12]

19. Typical hypocrisy

They want us to recognize all of that creationism bullshit as "real science" but he wants the church exemption from paying taxes for his organization, right? But of course, if he had tried to file his little "museum" scam as tax exempt, it would have been admitting that "creationism" is really religion, a point that any sane person sees automatically.

[mitchum]

20. Here's hoping he dies in prison

[mondo joe]

21. Here's hoping he serves his 288 year term and drops dead the night

before his release.

[VeggieTart]

22. Ooh, now we have another for our list of contradictions:

"creation science." :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

If I'm not mistaken, the cavemen drew pictures depicting their lives on walls of caves. There are NO indications of dinosaurs that we have seen, right? Would that not be another nail in the coffin of the creation anti-scientists who say humans and dinosaurs coexisted. I mean, some of them think humans actually RODE dinosaurs. Maybe they watched too many episodes of "The Flintstones."

And as for the phony credentials, whatta shocker. The guy doesn't know science from a hole in the ground.

[w4rma]

23. There is no such thing as a "centrifugal" force and especially not a "centrifical" force.

The force (Along with inertia. Inertia is not a force, btw.) that creates that illusionary "force" is the centripetal force.