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

[unhappycamper]

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.

~snip~

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.

[Zoeisright]

1. Wow. He has absolutely no grasp of science at all.

Doesn't understand the laws of thermodynamics, and just goes on and on about the history of religion. And the Bible is his only source.

What a quack.

[ixion]

2. when describing utter nonsense

I think blabber, jabber and yammer is bound to be the result. :)

[sharp_stick]

3. My brain started to hurt

during this morons introduction.

Who in the hell would consider starting a dissertatino with Hello, my name is...?

Gotta love diploma mills.

[slackmaster]

4. OMG - Thanks for posting this!

K&R!

:kick:

[Brickbat]

5. Thanks for the link -- K&R.

[unhappycamper]

6. A kick for the afternoon crowd.

:kick:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Wow, I had no idea that a Creationist would be a fraud

with a degree from a diploma mill.

:eyes:

[MrScorpio]

8. Patriot Bible University:

[rbixby]

10. The google maps picture of the actual place

Looks even less scholastic than this house.

[Junkie Brewster]

9. This is the epitome of cuckoo yip yap

I started to read it, and my mind went blank. I'm bookmarking this so my better half and I can laugh over a couple of drinks tonight.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Hovind on Buddhism, pg. 24: "It was a very atheistic religion" .... 'was', as in past tense.

:rofl: Um, how many Buddhists are there today??? :D

This is hilarious! I'm using the 'scroll the mouse wheel' method too. :D :D :D

[unhappycamper]

12. I did that also for four or five pages.

The I got tired of Jeebus and closed the window.

:hi:

[WCGreen]

13. Modern day Luddites.

Your future confuses and frightens me...

I am more comfortable in a make believe fairy tale land where men are king and women are subservient and I don't have to think to hard...

[philly_bob]

14. Second last paragraph of his Ph.D. dissertation. LOL.

"There are some evidences that the earth is young.
Most cultures that are found in the world tell of a world-
wide flood in the last five to six thousand years. The
population of the earth today doubles regularly. If you
were to draw up the population growth on a chart you would
see that it goes back to zero about five thousand years
ago. If man has been here millions of years like
evolutionists teach, where is the population? The whole
population growth can be studied by anyone and it will be
found that the population of the earth dates a young age
for the earth of four to five thousand years. Since the
Flood started with eight people. All of the ancient
writings that we have show a young age of the earth. Why
don't we have people writing about kings that lived fifty
thousand years ago? Why is it that all of recorded history
happened in the last four thousand years?"

[HughBeaumont]

15. Nice fragments.

Nice airheaded prose.

[HughBeaumont]

16. My fundie friend used to forward me shit from this child-abusing loon.

"Any scientist that he's gone up against to try and refute him cannot do it."

[Rex]

17. Fakes, phonies, charlatans, like emeritus Beck

'degrees in name only'. Fake like their believe system. That is why they hate real science.