Kent hovind dissertation

Taking the rationalwiki community survey 2017 or see the hovind's doctoral to: navigation, patriot university campus, a prestigious technologically advanced fully accredited mobile home, where mr. Because of hovind's use of the title of "doctor" based on a degree from an unaccredited institution, legitimate scientists have closely examined his bona fides, including the work he submitted to fulfill the requirements for a has proved difficult, because unlike common academic practice, patriot does not make its students' dissertations available to the academic december 9, 2009, wikileaks released hovind's dissertation in christian education. 1] usually, legitimate scholars are thrilled to find that people want to read their dissertations, but legitimate scholars don't get their degrees from diploma mills like patriot bible university. Bloggers and forum participants have widely linked to hovind's dissertation, since it contains a heady mixture of scientific inaccuracy, incoherent writing, frequent spelling errors, shoddy scholarship, and other things which make the skeptical community giggle with 2013, hovind claimed to have four doctorates, in (christian) education, theology, biblical ministry, and divinity (honorary). 3] dissertations are the final product of this research and are supervised by a committee of academics in the relevant field, usually consisting of between three to five scholars. Like any other publication in a library, dissertations are available to anyone who wants to read is not the case for hovind's dissertation. Hovind claims to have lost his copy of the dissertation,[4] while patriot bible university does not make dissertations available. A copy of hovind's 1991 dissertation was obtained by skip evans, who "receive[d] the original document, complete with a taped-in clipping from a magazine. 4] bartelt's review was the only online analysis of the dissertation before wikileaks made the copy available. She found hovind's dissertation makes no useful contribution to scholarship, except perhaps as an example of how not to write one. For example, hovind publicly insisted on the title, saying, "i notice you're calling him ‘dr’ and me ‘mr,’ so i'm just making a level playing field here; i have a doctorate's degree also, although it's not from an accredited university, but i don't think that matters. He gets large chunks of this ancient history wrong, and what little bits of truth do sneak in are surrounded by oceans of irrelevance and es, hovind tells us, didn't write "many" books. Hovind describes socrates, plato, and aristotle as being "pantheists," and thus attempts to understand in modern terms a religious system that does not easily match modern expectations and categories. Apparently, despite being a middle eastern monotheistic religion with a number of broadly equivalent traits to judaism and christianity, "zoroasterism" (as hovind also refers to zoroastrianism) is actually the bearer of the flame of evolutionism, as it has been carried from the fall of man through satan and then through the works of the greek is fine, except for the fact that if the ancient greeks, zoroastrians, and eastern mystics were all budding proto-darwinists, you might expect some historians and philosophers who study the ancients to have spotted it – and that the work of darwin and wallace in the nineteenth century might have been a bit less revolutionary and surprising than it actually was. He also makes some pretty silly remarks about the church fathers which are backed up with the same sort of evidence as everything else in the dissertation – that is, about the same quality and quantity as you get in a chick tract or the weekly world e quotables[edit]. Following are quotes found in kent hovind's alwiki i was thinking on this subject, i wrote a poem to try to explain this, comparing blind men and blind men argued well into the the great question, "is there really sight? Deny his existence is really ’ll have to believe him and trust in his keeping with the age-old (but apparently forgotten) academic tradition of including 50+ lines of doggerel in each and every dissertation, kent has conjured up this gem. Someone notify mit that they'll start gaining credibility if they include more poetry in their , in the form of the serpent, brought the doctrine of evolution to the garden of g that adam would latch onto a complete theory of evolution and pass it down to the next thousands of bible has never been proven wrong yet, and i believe it never will any good academic work, kent's deals in unprovable instance, communism is a direct offshoot of final sentence in a paragraph speaking of one of the biblical creation account, hovind includes this assertion with no citation or back a mars rock or a jupiter rock, i'll eat it or lick it. Hovind's dissertation, google docs gives the following metrics:(note: these metrics are derived from the text starting with "introduction" and continuing until the sentence "i believe jesus was right.

The wikipedia page states that the average 11-year-old student's written assignment has a "reading ease" of 60–70, which would indicate that the writing style of kent's supposed phd-level paper is on par with that of a pre-pubescent rly, the "flesch-kincaid grade level" indicates the approximate number of years of education needed to understand a piece of writing. According to these metrics, a student in the 7th grade should be able to fully understand kent's "doctoral research". Interestingly, the wikipedia page on the flesch-kincaid grade level has a higher calculated grade-level than kent's doctoral dissertation, at automated readability index is another way of calculating the approximate grade required for a student to fully understand a piece of written work. Once again, the average 7th-grade student (approximately 12–13 years old) should be able to fully comprehend kent's new of these metrics are damning in and of themselves; all else being equal, being able to express one's ideas in simple and accessible language is a good thing. Taken in the context of the thesis's other flaws, it becomes clear that complexity of thought was never among hovind's issues. Hovind was in federal prison, he wrote another dissertation for a doctor of ministry degree from patriot. 2]:4 according to hovind:In this unusual book i will try to give the reader the big picture of the history of the world and explain what is about to happen, based on the book that has given thousands of predictions and prophecies and has never been wrong even one time yet! A dissertation on end times according to the bible and it argues that jesus will appear on earth in 2028. 10][2]: appears to have copied some sort of standard format for the front matter of his 'dissertation': at the bottom of the title page, a feather-like logo with the text "publisher logo" can be found. Presumably, this is a placeholder for a real publisher logo – but kent completely forgot about this. The verso of the title page (which normally contains the publishing data, such as isbn, catalogue data, and the publisher's address) has a similar flaw, showing the ght © 2013 kent hovind all rights reserved. Claims to have spent four years on this 'dissertation', but looked at this page and failed to see that something was missing. He even managed to misspell the dissertation's title: "for heavens sake" instead of "for heaven's sake". The mind of a creationist: a critical analysis of kent hovind's “doctoral dissertation” by nathan dissertation kent hovind doesn't want you to read, a review of kent hovind's thesis by karen bartelt, of kent hovind's 1991 gula - kent hovind’s doctoral t university's hilarious rebuttal of the copy on wikileaks (which it notably mislabels as an extension of wikipedia). Earth creationist kent hovind's doctoral to: navigation, otherwise specified, the document described here:Was first publicly revealed by wikileaks working with our classified, confidential, censored or otherwise withheld from the public before of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical questions about this document's veracity are summary is approved by the editorial here for a detailed explanation of the information on this you have similar or updated material, see our submission e datedecember 9, -earth creationist kent e. As such the strength of his dissertation is of broad ing to our source, contrary to accepted practices in academia where doctoral dissertations are available to the public. Hovind, along with his alma mater, patriot bible university, has consistently refused to allow his dissertation to be offered for public reprint or scholarly | torrent | t united sity or research t bible hfile size in bytes. 256 5ries: leaked files | 2009 | 2009-12 | analysis requested | united states | university or research institution | patriot bible university | ble version permanent dissertation kent hovind doesn't. A person is certainly free the dissertation topic at greater length, and publish more on a particular issue of experimental data, but the thesis itself does not get a review?

Skip evans, who has a website critiquing kent hovind, initially requested a copy dissertation from kent hovind with the idea of doing just that. Evans then requested, and with the permission of received, a copy of hovind's dissertation from patriot university in march that time, evans repeatedly asked for permission to post the dissertation at e. His communications were ignored until this recent email from kent hovind:Anyone wishing to get a transcript of our current material to a web site or distribute to others is free to do so as long as no changes are made is given including my name, address, and web site. A thesis is not as easy as an encyclopedia, but there are mechanisms by which these documents may hovind says about his education, thesis, and critiques. Nearly all classes by 250-page dissertation dealt with the subject of the effects of teaching evolution students in our public school system. I a pushover, but i am willing to debate them anyway and run the risk of sly hovind has been affected by criticisms of his education or he would not have written this rejoinder. What i intend to do in this review s the accuracy of hovind's remarks above, and then focus on the quality of itself. Because hovind did not grant permission to post any part of his , there cannot be any direct quotations from this discrepancies were obvious upon inspection. The hovind's thesis are not numbered, so my references to page numbers start with the. There is no table of contents, but on and six hovind describes a thesis that has 16 chapters. Ed from patriot university was a four-chapter ly, hovind attempted to explain the discrepancy in an email exchange with evans:My dissertation was originally about 100 pages. 2)    the dissertation does not deal with the subject of "the teaching evolution on the students in our public school system". However, there is no empirical evidence that hovind ng of the appears sensitive to criticism of patriot university and implies that despite size and the fact that it is a correspondence school his education is legitimate is his degree. The coursework for the s is substantially different, but as late as 1-10-00, hovind still seems loath ising the "christian" aspect of his degree. Curious that a christian this point hovind would surely cry "sour grapes", though these conventions and style are typical, minimal and reasonable for a "real" ph. Dissertation when one examines stated earlier in this review, a thesis is supposed to be a body of original research. Pu says very little about the tation except "minimum of 150 typewritten pages; a popular writing style ted for the dissertation" (1998 pu catalog, 19). First chapter demonstrates hovind's abysmal grasp of the nature and scope of his inability to write at the postgraduate level. Hovind begins with a tion of evolution - that with time, things left to themselves can improve - and about thermodynamics.

Pride ion are conjoined in hovind's mind because evolution allegedly teaches that man ultimate product. Evolution proceeded through cain, hovind goes on, and continued propagated after the flood (2400 bc), like a virus. The virus traveled from cush through the tower of babel (which hovind says was built in 1900 bc). Against god, i suspect that most of this material is rehashed from that trashed western civilization, hovind gives thumbnail sketches of eastern religions. Hinduism, confucianism, zoroasterism, buddhism, and taoism), but has very little to how they relate to the subject of this chapter until the big whammy - hovind communist takeovers of these countries were very simple because their religions place much importance on god. According to hovind,Evolution also made an easy entry into these cultures, as it did not challenge ng religions. A page of digression about how to reach people who have been brainwashed ion, hovind takes on the early christians. Though any good history of science book details the development of ic column in the years prior to lyell, hovind inaccurately states that ped the column. This is a recurring theme with hovind today, oblivious to the fact that the christians of that time period tended to have racist ideas. Freud is mentioned briefly, as are julian and aldous huxley,The latter being blamed for the drug culture of the chapter concludes as hovind blames shintoism (which hovind based on evolution), for what japan did in world war chapter begins with the assertion that evolution is a religion. Rather than support this statement, however, hovind discusses the removal of prayer from the s and spends the next three pages discussing four options for alleviating ion/creation controversy: teach evolution only (which he says is done now), on only, teach them both, or teach nothing concerning origins. From this, hovind concludes that evolution is a religion (bing), es this one page later (bing). After a lament about how preachers are portrayed and tv, hovind digresses to an attack on what he perceives as the lack tional forms in the fossil record using out-of-context and uncited quotations and eldredge, d. One last mention ion-as-religion (bing) and an evolution-as-faith (bing), and the chapter romans 1:21 (cutting off in the middle of verse 28) and an undated, -to-the-editor by this last section hovind perpetuates the creationists'. Woodruff,As well as gould and eldredge from page 55, are reprised on page are only six pages of the seventeen that legitimately deal effects of evolution, which hovind believes are hitler/the shintu [sic] religion/wwii,Stalin and communism, and the fact that evolution does not "lock-step" with ional "linear" scientific method. After repeating /eldredge, woodruff and newsweek quotations about transitional forms, the section by saying again that both creation and evolution are just last three pages of this chapter are a rehash of hovind'ture of evolution (no fossil record, no observation, no experimentation,Evolution-as-religion (bing)). Have focused on the content of this chapter in particular to demonstrate hovind'ity to stick to the topic, which was, after all, the effects of evolution. As an example, i have retained hovind'ce structure in his introductory paragraph on time, but changed the subject to we will look at the subject of money. Their entire argument is built premise that there is plenty of than continuing on the topic of time, hovind spends the pages digressing on the apostle paul's vision of heaven, that god is not locked , and that in heaven there will be no time.

The makings of a philosophical argument, perhaps, but e to the age of the he returns to the age of the earth, hovind asserts that its age can be reasonably estimated by adding up the. Though he provides no recession speed for , hovind states that by multiplying the recession speed by the presumed , the moon should be much further from the earth than it is. After one last day-age theory and the living bible (effectively repeating pages 85-86),Hovind finishes with the classic henry morris population argument for a young matthew 19:4, that jesus said adam and eve were created in ing, hovind finishes by saying that the lies about the age of the earth are all . One is forced to conclude that by doing so, hovind is attempting to largely scientifically-illiterate audience with the large number of pages. However,There is no 250 page dissertation; when one subtracts the duplicated material,The document is 95-96 pages. Hovind demands empirical evidence ion, yet there is no empirical evidence that there ever was a 250 page dissertation! A 250 page thesis exists, hovind could silence his critics by producing a document purported length that was obviously written in topic of this dissertation does not have anything to do with s of evolution in the public schools  instead it is a hodge-podge of recycled,Discredited, young earth ideas, digressions into bible stories and quotations, and of "evolution-as-religion" statements, embedded almost in into the text. If stephen jay gould had produced a thesis like this, i would be patriot university did, in fact, accept this dissertation and award. The writing style, as hovind's lectures, are reminiscent of drive-by shootings, where many are presented in rapid-fire order (so as to not allow the reader or listener think about any particular topic). Hovind says (in his statement above) that he doesn't care whether he sed as "mr. Kent hovind" in ola, fl, phone book (it is very unusual for a person with a ph. There is no evidence that kent hovind has more than e sophomore level of course work in any science. Join the ever-growing list of those who challenge kent hovind to clarify his the sciences and participate in an in-depth, web-based discussion of his assertions . Thesis from patriot university of 1999 (the dissertation was released with the permission of the author). Furthermore, some of our students transfer from hovind' "alma mater", illinois central college, so i am aware of the level g expertise typical of a 20-year-old student from central illinois. Luke muehlhauser on july 13, 2010 in bible,creationism,funny, hovind's alma r, i listed the top 15 christian fundamentalist quotes of this week. Today, i list my top 15 quotes from that one-man show of fundamentalist nutjobbery, kent hovind! M going to be writing my dissertation next year…and i think i just found my first line. At this point, it should be clear that there is no amount of evidence that kent hovind will time i see this disaster of a dissertation, i always think it should be signed kent “the yellow dart” 13, 2010 at 7:52 am.

13, 2010 at 7:56 maher: i am surprised noen hasn’t said something super butthurt , it’s hard to write with tears of joy after reading kent’s sage 13, 2010 at 8:09 am. I recall whole stretches of the dissertation that read like this:Then [person x] was born in [year y]. I tried to read hovind’s “thesis” a couple years ago… but just couldn’t handle it. Can’t say it was the kent hovind, but when i was six or seven my father took me to a hovindesque presentation at our local church. Was too young to really know what was going on but as i got older and more familiar with kent hovind (through his epically silly debates) all of his inane arguments (the upside down whale slide for example) came back to me. People like hovind are very successful (provided they pay taxes of course) selling talking snake oil to a ready-made 13, 2010 at 10:57 crap, he believes in satan? 13, 2010 at 5:53 much of his dissertation is plagiarized i think i could probably crank one out in a few days. All the talk about commas on this thread, i figure this comment isn’t too 14, 2010 at 7:24 a free online degree in seconds at the level of kent hovind! You may say that this is wrong and unnecessarily cruel, but i’d just like to point out that it has never been proven that unicorns even have desires, so you’d have no grounds to claim that i’m violating their 15, 2010 at 5:19 , it is critical that any self-proclaimed “sophisticated theists” understand that plantinga’s job description differs from hovind’s only in degree, not in kind, and that his biological knowledge is indeed every bit as abysmal as his fellow traveler’ many *decades* has he been banging on about the “one genetic mutation equals one propositional belief” tiger example in the eaan — you know, the one anyone with a 9th grade education can refute? Essays on kent hovind’s argument against evolution containing critical evaluations of hovind’s argument by bunch of 9th graders ph. 3, 2010 at 3:45 ’s funny whenever people disagree with the truth bad language and sarcasam comes into the conversation, i agree with kent. 30, 2011 at 9:00 ’s funny whenever people disagree with the truth bad language and sarcasam comes into the conversation, i agree with kent. Kind regards chris , actually, bad language and sarcasm come into the conversation when we disagree with the non-truth, which is what kent hovind’s drivel is. If you knew even the first thing about evolution, you would see what is so, so, so horribly wrong with everything kent hovind says 28, 2011 at 12:49 hovind is an embarressment to thinking christians, who acknowledge growing knowledge of god’s creative/sustaining work, and who apply appropriate scriptural studies to the issues. Just because something is described in a book doesn’t mean it exists or is hovind is an embarressment to thinking christians …. Released kent hovind’s doctoral  shep called my attention to the fact that wikileaks released, of all things, kent hovind’s doctoral dissertation, which, according to shep, “has been kept under lock and key by patriot university since 1991. According to rationalwiki, though, the dissertation has actually been available since of you have probably heard of kent hovind, who was a prominent young-earth creationist , a baptist, and founder of the organization creation science evangelism. His son eric now runs the creationist organization, and eric and chad, kent’s other son, also run a god-will-make-you-rich scam called “godonomics”, on which i’ve posted hovind’s thesis has a spotty history. For hovind’s degree, wikipedia 1988 and 1991 respectively, hovind was awarded a master’s degree and doctorate in christian education through correspondence from the non-accredited patriot university in colorado springs, colorado (now patriot bible university in del norte, colorado, which no longer offers this program).

Dino” has provoked some academics to look closely at how hovind presents his education and credentials. Barbara forrest, a professor of philosophy, expert on the history of creationism and activist in the creation-evolution controversy, wrote that hovind’s lack of academic training makes it impossible to engage him on a professional t bible university is a diploma mill, as it has unreasonably low graduation requirements, lack of sufficient faculty or educational standards, and a suspicious tuition scheme. The school’s current policies allow students to attain bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctor of ministry degrees in months, rather than years, for as little as $37 per t has stated that hovind’s doctoral dissertation is evidence of the poor requirements at patriot and that hovind lacks knowledge of basic science. She noted that hovind’s dissertation is incomplete (it contains four chapters totaling 101 pages, but hovind’s introduction claims the work is 250 pages with 16 chapters), of low academic quality, with poor writing, poor spelling, and poor grammatical style. Any rate, in the introduction hovind says there will be sixteen chapters, but i count only four (they’re not numbered):It’s standard boilerplate creationism, with the usual accusations that evolution is a religion (a false one), that the only kind of “evolution” is microevolution, as well as a tedious introductory history of creationism and a lot of biblical exegesis. And, speaking of errors, here’s one:It is indeed 110 pages long, and here’s the last one:On this basis hovind calls himself “doctor hovind,” and even listed himself that way in the telephone book! I think it’s a sad commentary on our society that anyone–let alone hundreds or thousands–would take hovind seriously or at least give him a bye on the basis that his intentions are june 23, 2014 at 8:27 am | permalink. That i think of it, we have a few “universities” just ten miles or so from where i sit – out in eastern el paso county, that make patriot bible university look like u june 23, 2014 at 3:38 pm | ’s alma mater should have a crescent moon cut into the door – and no, i don’t mean that he’s a secret june 23, 2014 at 3:42 pm | me to it june 23, 2014 at 11:11 am | gful praise june 23, 2014 at 8:28 am | ns also said about falwell: if you gave [jerry] falwell an enema he could be buried in a is quite applicable to hovind as june 23, 2014 at 8:53 am | me to it. The wikipedia page states that the average 11-year-old student’s written assignment has a “reading ease” of 60-70, which would indicate that the writing style of kent’s supposed phd-level paper is on par with that of a pre-pubescent rly, the “flesch-kincaid grade level” indicates the approximate number of years of education needed to understand a piece of writing. According to these metrics, a student in the 7th grade should be able to fully understand kent’s “doctoral research”. Storing an entire dissertation would be almost miraculous and an act of true skill and courage, even assuming the typewriter had that much memory. Much more likely, it was done a page at a could also have been done on one of the early dos computers with a truly sucky printer, or perhaps even a dedicated “word processor” less, by 1991, technology had already moved significantly past whatever kent used for his “dissertation. It was behind the mac, but nowhere near as sucky as kent’s june 23, 2014 at 12:14 pm | permalink. Hovind: [sitting down] you shouldn’t use my nedry: [loudly] hovind, hovind, we’ve got hovind here! Hovind: okay, i’ve got my dissertation and the rather large check you asked nedry: here’s your doctorate. Just make sure wikileaks doesn’t get a hold of your hovind: i’ll keep it in my bible, no one looks in those june 23, 2014 at 10:03 am | organization that “accredited” hovind’s “school” is itself unaccredited by the us dept. But the department itself isn’t in the accreditation more information: http:///accreditation/ june 23, 2014 at 10:05 am | the way, who is wayne knight, hovind’s “major professor? But an adult should know june 23, 2014 at 12:11 pm | , i note all ‘doctor’ hovind’s evidences fails. M sad to learn that the man who obtained hovind’s dissertation passed away back in 2012.

My favorite thing about hovind’s “dissertation” was evans receiving it:“he requested a copy of hovind’s “dissertation” from patriot university, only to receive the original document, complete with a taped-in clipping from a magazine, to his surprise and delight. Enough dissertations have taped-in pictures from june 23, 2014 at 6:21 pm | jupiter rock csn be added to the rocks already in his june 24, 2014 at 5:40 am | forgot about this great quote:[i]”evolution is a religious faith…. He seems to quote her june 23, 2014 at 8:38 pm | in this case, he did not mean 16 literal 16 is a metaphor for june 23, 2014 at 10:05 pm | hovind must be one of the june 24, 2014 at 8:29 am | permalink. Trackback/ wikileaks released kent hovind’s doctoral thesis | why evolution is true | mark solock blog on june 23, 2014 at 8:50 am.