Kent Hovind, PhD - his "thesis" is online

[OmarKhayyam]

The illustrious Dr. Dino (now a guest of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons) has posted his doctoral thesis.

Aside from the religious nonsense it contains the most striking thing about it is how to fails to meet ANY accepted standards of scholarship.

"Creation scientist" indeed.

[Smoke]

It makes fascinating reading. It reads like something written by a twelve-year-old who has been homeschooled by fundamentalists, but it's an interesting look into the mind of Hovind, who sees evolution, atheism, Eastern religions, communism, secularism, and anything else he dislikes as all being part of one great Satanic plot.

He even includes a poem he wrote, which ends like this:

Originally Posted by Kent Hovind

When you get to Heaven (or Hell if you please)
you'll understand God as you fall on your knees!
I wish you could see Him or hear Him somehow.
But that isn't possible where you are now.
To deny His existence is really absurd.
You'll have to believe Him and trust in His Word.

A small sampling of this masterpiece:

Hinduism became very popular around 600 B.C. It probably began many years before that. This religion is broken up into four branches. Vedanta is the most popular branch. It teaches that the universe is a living soul. Sikhism is another branch that began around 1500 A.D. Janism is a branch of Hinduism that says that there is no god at all. Janism teaches the doctrine of Karma. This is a system of reincarnation where people are constantly being born back as a different creature depending upon how they lived in this world. The final stage of this reincarnation is Nirvana, which is annihilation and you finally get to stop coming back. You just cease to exist. The fourth branch is called Sankhya which is also atheistic.

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Zoroaster was the religion of the Persians that developed around 600 B.C. Darius and Cyrus, who were both mentioned in the Bible, were followers of Zoroaster. It is possible that the wise men who came to Bethlehem were of this cult. There is no way to prove this for certain. This religion believed that Satan and God were equally powerful, thereby, limiting God. This shows that they did not have the right view of God in their theology.

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It [Buddhism] had a very rigid system of Karma, which was a cause/affect system.

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Taoism teaches that nature is bi-polar. All of nature is divided into yin and yang.

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Lamarck died in poverty and was unwanted when he died.

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The New Age movement is nothing more than the old rebellion against God and the belief in evolution, with a little Hindu and Buddhist religion mixed in with it.

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In the mid 1850's there was a revival of the Buddhist cult. It was co-founded by Colonel H. S. Olcott. The goal of this was to unify the Buddhist. The name of this revival was Theosophy. The Theosophy cult was also founded by Madam Helena Blavatsky.

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It was Shintoism, based on evolution, that was responsible for Japan's actions in World War II They were determined to take over and rule the world, just like Hitler was doing in Germany. Both of them were motivated by a desire to help evolution along.

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Many say "We can't mix religion and the public schools." In the first place, that is a faulty argument. The public schools desperately need some religion.

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Teaching our young people that we evolved from monkeys in hindering the religion of Christianity. It's causing them to doubt their faith, and it needs to be eliminated.

[YmirGF]

I started to read his essay, but realized I need a full bottle of Scotch to tackle such a project, so it will have to wait.

[Anti-religion]

Originally Posted by Smoke

Hinduism became very popular around 600 B.C. It probably began many years before that.

Originally Posted by Smoke

This religion is broken up into four branches.

Originally Posted by Smoke

It teaches that the universe is a living soul.

Originally Posted by Smoke

* * * * *The fourth branch is called Sankhya which is also atheistic.* * *

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Originally Posted by Smoke

It [Buddhism] had a very rigid system of Karma, which was a cause/affect system.

Christianity which he follow seems to be least dogmatic.

[Shadow Wolf]

If that managed to pass as a thesis for a doctorates, I would hate to see the curriculum of such a university. When an undergraduate can point out a lists of errors, something is not right.

[angellous_evangellous]

It wasn't a university. It's a paper mill.

[Smoke]

Originally Posted by Shadow Wolf

If that managed to pass as a thesis for a doctorates, I would hate to see the curriculum of such a university. When an undergraduate can point out a lists of errors, something is not right.

This is a pic of the university that granted Hovind his doctorate. Formerly Patriot University, it's now called Patriot Bible University.

[angellous_evangellous]

haha

I've read hundreds of dissertations, and this is the first one I've seen that opens with "Hello, my name is..."

What a farce.

[Nowhere Man]

I compared this with Southampton's University's guide, "Writing your Dissertation" and Hovind's certainly does not match any of the criteria needed for a properly planned, written, and reviewed dissertation.

I would take that most people would be terribly embarrassed to produce such a work as a final draft. It barely looks like a first draft's overview still in it's initial idea phase.

Wonder how long it took Hovind to write this particular piece out?

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Smoke

This is a pic of the university that granted Hovind his doctorate. Formerly Patriot University, it's now called Patriot Bible University.

I do believe that is a double-wide trailer. I'm impressed. Not at all like those cheap universities you find housed in single-wides.