Merged Kent Hovind's dissertation is available online

Oh my god, really? I was asking to see this 5 years ago. This is the best.

Oh dear. I've been reading this. This is truly something.
 
biomorph said:
Maia, I'm not sure that amount of self inflicted abuse is well, frankly, healthy.

Still, it's your head you gotta cope with, I guess, and your bravery is to be admired...:jaw-dropp
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I'm at home with kidney stones and taking lots of Lortabs. It all seems to be seen through a haze...:eye-poppi

Anyway, on page 83 is a really, really bad poem about an atheist and a theist arguing.

pg. 88, arguments from the Institute for Creation Research that prove the earth is only 6,000 years old, such as the influx of cosmic dust...

pg. 92, "I am convinced that much of our modern science is an absolute joke" (oh dear, Kent Hovind taught high school science for 14 years and college level science for 3.)

Coral reefs, bristle cone pines, oil fields, ocean sediments, continent erosion, the receding moon-- all of them prove the young earth theory...

oh, and don't forget that Satan invented evolution.

"The End."

What???

Wow, that was bad.

First, he tried to explain all of human history and religion in terms of evil evolutionists spreading satanic ideas (no, it doesn't make much more sense if you read the whole thing), and then he talked about why evolution shouldn't be taught in public schools because it's a religion, and then there was a bunch of stuff about how there weren't any transitional fossils, and then he repeated a whole bunch of things he already said,and then--

(Where did those Lortabs go???)

Also, that had to be about the worst typeface I've ever seen.
 
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Madalch said:
What kind of a place allows you to update your thesis? The thesis is what you submit in order to get your degree. The committee reads it, shreds it, you put it back together to satisfy them, they accept it, they grant you a degree. Once it's accepted, it's in the library system and out of your hands, regardless of how ashamed you may be of it three years later.
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IIRC, it was in an article about Hovind's PhD dissertation. The author mentioned trying to get a copy of Hovind's dissertation, but was told it wouldn't be released as it was a 'work in progress'.

Yeah, from pnerd's link:

My dissertation was originally about 100 pages. I continued adding material and it grew to 250 pages. Over the last 10 years I have constantly been adding material. It is now many hundreds of pages and will be put into book form as time permits. (1-16-00, Skip Evans email)
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Guess which of these is Patriot Bible University:

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I hear one day PBU is planning on adding a real live air conditioner.
 
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My dissertation was originally about 100 pages. I continued adding material and it grew to 250 pages. Over the last 10 years I have constantly been adding material. It is now many hundreds of pages and will be put into book form as time permits. (1-16-00, Skip Evans email)
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The link in the OP is to the original, then. (Or very close to the original.)

Thanks to PeeZed for the lead, BTW. He's going to be one happy camper when he gets done masticating this pig's ear.
 
Maia said:
I'm at home with kidney stones and taking lots of Lortabs. It all seems to be seen through a haze...:eye-poppi
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I guess compared to kidney stones, this is light work, but tell me, my dear, are the Lortabs for the thesis or the 'stones? lol

Anyway, on page 83 is a really, really bad poem about an atheist and a theist arguing.
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Oh gosh, now i'll have to read it........can i blame you for the after shock? :cool:
 
KingMerv00 said:
Guess which of these is Patriot Bible University:

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Huh. I really thought this one was the Green Hills Mall in Nashville.

Anyway, I also read the critique of Hovind's thesis, and it pretty much says it all. Except that if want to quote it without his permission, we can (she didn't), because we're doing so for the purpose of satire. ;)
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Wow...on page 73 he actually says that the reason America has so few science students is because they're being taught evolution in school. What does he think they're teaching in other countries?
 
"Ken Taylors' Living Bible, I don'the garbage heap. want to be too negative..."

WTF?

"Why is it that all of recorded history happened in the last four thousand years?"

I'm pretty sure it didn't.
 
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Radically Rethinking said:
Wow...on page 73 he actually says that the reason America has so few science students is because they're being taught evolution in school. What does he think they're teaching in other countries?
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"Other countries" are full of evil heathens, secularists, atheists, Muslims and other undesirables. They'll never get anywhere, certainly not heaven. And obviously, they'll never be real scientists.

I found it interesting that he said that he thinks Satan fell about 100 years after Adam and Eve. Where'd he get that from? If Satan hadn't already fallen, who tempted Eve? Just a really mischievous snake?
 
KingMerv00 said:
Guess which of these is Patriot Bible University:

[qimg]http://www.amis.org/meetings/2007/images/beinecke1.jpg[/qimg]

I hear one day PBU is planning on adding a real live air conditioner.
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Is the second the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale? I should go visit since my mother lives near it. I've seen the outside but never the inside. It glows at night and is quite beautiful.
 
I perused as far as page 10.

I may sit down and actually read the whole thing. Just for laughs, you understand.

Spelling errors, appalling writing, mis-stated scientific laws (and yet he claims to have done "research", and typed this up on a computer, so why the errors?) and unsupported inanity about. And that's on a quick overview of 10 pages.



Look, I'll be honest here:

I went to Winnipeg Technical Vocation High School (Tec-Voc). It is not exactly the best school in the city, academically speaking. In fact, it is (or was, at the time), on the unfortunate side of the curve. Very unfortunate. I did not go there for the academics, though. I went there for the machining program, because the vocational training there is good. It's a vocational school, and I figured knowledge of manufacturing processes would be helpful in Engineering (and I was right, and yes, this means I was planning on taking engineering well before I started high school).

But personal stories aside, this level of writing is on par with the grade 12 (sorry, Senior 4) general-level English. Not the advanced English course for university-bound students (which I couldn't take, as it conflicted with machining), but the base-level one, where half the senior class were functionally illiterate. You don't need to be able to read big words or write coherently to get a job hammering nails.

That is the writing quality of Kent Hovind's Doctoral (I confess I cannot say that aloud without laughing) "thesis".
Sub-par-high-school idiot course standards.

How did that man manage to get any sort of pre-doctoral degree conferred upon him? Or GED, for that matter?
 
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Radically Rethinking said:
"Why is it that all of recorded history happened in the last four thousand years?"

I'm pretty sure it didn't.
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Thats a slightly tricky one. The problem is the term "recorded history". What we would recognise as history only goes back about 2500 years to Herodotus and Thucydides.

Obiviously there are older examples of writing around but they tend to max out at 5 to 6 thousand years old.
 
geni said:
Thats a slightly tricky one. The problem is the term "recorded history". What we would recognise as history only goes back about 2500 years to Herodotus and Thucydides.

Obiviously there are older examples of writing around but they tend to max out at 5 to 6 thousand years old.
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I put it at about 16,000 years old, though there are huge gaps in the historical record up until 5 or 6 thousand years ago. ;)


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hgc said:
I put it at about 16,000 years old, though there are huge gaps in the historical record up until 5 or 6 thousand years ago. ;
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That isn't writing. There are clear differences between that and even proto-Sumerian.
 
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