Merged Kent Hovind's dissertation is available online

Uhhhhhh, "unstable" in that they don't yield the expected correct answers?
 
Up to page 27. Have lost will to live. Many brain cells have committed suicide.
 
I've done so much marking lately that I actually didn't consider it that bad.

Wrong, pointless, meandering, full of mistakes....but not so much worse than I've read from countless other students.
 
"The next man in this history of evolution is a man by the name of Augustine. He was born approximately 353 A.D. and died about 430 A.D. He is called St. Augustine by the Catholic church. Augustine still plays a vital part in Catholic church doctrine. He would be the equivalent of a theistic evolutionist today."--p. 28.

For the love of Benji, use a subordinate clause already! Oh, and A.D. goes before the date. And Augustine was a theistic evolutionist?!? Well, at least he wasn't an evil pantheist like St. Clement.
 
Madalch said:
I've done so much marking lately that I actually didn't consider it that bad.

Wrong, pointless, meandering, full of mistakes....but not so much worse than I've read from countless other students.
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REALLY? I've been unemployed this semester, but this is making me think fondly of even the worst freshman comp. papers, and those don't pretend to be dissertations.
 
From St Augustine

It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation.

– De Genesi ad literam 1:19–20, Chapt. 19 [AD 408]

Basically there might be people who know more on a subject than a person who just knows the bible or even Christian. This St Augustine seems a lot brighter than Hovind.

Couldn't read much of Hovind. I got to the point about pride. I consider much more humbling that I am part of the universe, not the reason the universe exists.
 
Davidlpf said:
From St Augustine

It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation.

– De Genesi ad literam 1:19–20, Chapt. 19 [AD 408]

Basically there might be people who know more on a subject than a person who just knows the bible or even Christian. This St Augustine seems a lot brighter than Hovind.

Couldn't read much of Hovind. I got to the point about pride. I consider much more humbling that I am part of the universe, not the reason the universe exists.
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Good quote. Augustine to Hovind: "Shut up and stop making us all look like bloody imbeciles. Get a real education for Chris’ sake!".
 
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