Top 13 Errors in Kent Hovind's Dissertation

My video explaining the top 13 errors in Kent Hovind's dissertation which was released by WikiLeaks one year ago.



Kent's semi-response on his blog: http://www.kenthovindblog.com/?p=554

Patroit University's response: http://www.patriotuniversity.com/PriceOfTruth3.html

Karen Bartlet's review of thesis: http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/bartelt_dissertation_on_hovind_thesis.htm

Asteroid Killed The Dinosaurs

A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

A panel of 41 scientists reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction. The new study found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.

Geological records show the event that triggered the dinosaurs' demise rapidly destroyed marine and land ecosystems and the asteroid hit is the only plausible explanation for this.

Poll: Bible is God's Word or Myth

There is online poll from This Is Your Bible web site that was pharyngulated so much that there is a scripting error.

Here is the poll question:


Here is the what happened:

Dissassembly of Kent Hovind's Dissertation

First video from PaulChartley that looks at Kent Hovind's dissertation. There are currently 49 videos/episodes. I have been going over Hovind's thesis, marking errors such as spelling and grammar mistakes, poor writing style, incomplete quotations and logical fallacies.

Pat Robertson Bad Mouths Haiti

Pat Robertson, the loud-mouthed American televangelist said that Haitians made a "pact to the Devil" in order to liberate themselves from the French and, along with their voodoo practices, indirectly attributed the earthquake to the consequences of the Haitian people being "cursed".

Why would kill people like the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince or those who were trying to make a difference there such as Yvonne Martin, a nurse who was helping with mobile clinics?

We know that the earthquake was caused by pressure buildup from strike-slip fault that is 10 km under the island. It was not attributed to God, Satan or by any post hoc argument.

Review of Kent Hovind's Dissertation

Since the release of Kent Hovind's dissertation, there has been many videos reviewing and reading of it. This video takes a look at the "intro".

Avatar

I went to see the movie Avatar before Christmas and it was packed. It was only the third time that I have gone to a movie theatre recently, I saw Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince this summer and Star Wars: The Clone Wars last summer. I was amazed the CGI and 3D effects of Avatar and made me a believer of the 3D technology, that it is not gimmicky.

EvoWiki - The Evolution Wiki

EvoWiki was a wiki devoted to explaining evolution and debunking creationist claims. The link, I have provided, is from the last Internet Archive link on March 2008. Due to constant vandalism and a major interal error, the web site is no longer live. The site provides excellent rebuttals and fallacies to creationists' claims on evolution. Just be aware that there are no images on-site, sometimes it takes time for it to load and you cannot do a search.

How Evolution Works

Video on how evolution works:

Video: Debunking Creationists' Claims

Rebuttal video to a horrible CGI creationism video. The video shows how creationists are wrong about evolution, radio carbon dating, fossilization, and transitional fossils, that unfossilized dinosaur bones have not been peer reviewed and how uses strawman arguments by calling evolution evil and using Pascal's Wager.

Hovind's Appeal Denied

From Pensacola News Journal

On December 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in Atlanta upheld the tax evasion convictions of a Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo. They were charged with income tax evasion-related charges for failure to properly report income taxes and related documents from their Creation Science Evangelism Enterprises.

According to court documents, Kent appealed his convictions and sentences for failing to collect and pay employment withholding taxes, obstructing tax laws and structuring transactions to avoid reporting laws. Jo Hovind appealed her convictions and sentences for structuring transactions to avoid reporting laws. They challenged the sufficiency of the indictments and the evidence against them; the calculation of loss and the imposition of restitution; and the order of forfeiture of assets.

The document is available online.

E-mail From A Kent Hovind Supporter

This is an e-mail that I received today from a Kent Hovind supporter about a petition I created and evolution and faith.

Corey,
I find your enthusiasm to keep a family man in jail for his tax evasion issue a sad commentary.... even for an atheist. I think your motivation is far more than what is purportedly your reason for this absurd petition. I believe it is simply a symptom of a problem.....your problem with the God of the Universe. You understand nothing of this man and the good he has done for many. Your reasoning is also vapid in discerning truth from error. You have a religion as well as Hovind. Faith in a fairy tale called evolution. This fairy tale taught as a fact, which is a boldfaced lie.. As a mathematician I can attest that that it is a mathematical impossibility for organic matter to arise from inorganic matter. An the most learned molecular biologists know as a fact. This lie of evolution is tenaciously clung to by many due to the fact they have an issue with God and cannot face the truth scientifically. The evolutionary model does not even fall into scientific basic rules.....such as repeatable results! Come on get off this ridiculous idea of attempting to prolong this mans incarceration for your own bone to pick with the Author of Life! I am truly hoping you repent of this abberant behavior . What if it was you! Ever made a mistake? Think about it........
Paul

My response:

Paul,

I am disturbed that Hovind and his supporters do not accept the conviction and that he broke the law. The petition was to show that people will not tolerate this.

My problem is not with God. I am agnostic, meaning I do not know if there is a god.

I have read what Hovind has done and it is not "good." Sure, love the sinner, hate the sin. But, if one does not repent for his failures and crimes, then how is this good? I am working on web site to show how hypocritical some Christians are, Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson, etc.

Evolution is not religion, I have repeated several times on blogs. Evolution does not have adherents. Evolution is fact and does not require a god nor does it rule one out.

You say that it is impossible for organic matter to come from non-organic matter? Does not the Bible say that humans were created from dirt?

It seems to me, that you have problem with reality. Show me evidence of how evolution is wrong and will show you how you are incorrect.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing and please do the research.

Sincerely,

Corey Schlueter

Lord's Prayer Removal

It has been almost twenty years since the Lord's Prayer was removed from the public schools and now the Ontario government is looking to replace it. A committee will be set up to determine if they will replace the opening prayer with a rotation of faith prayers or a moment of silence.

I agree that there needs to be a change and reflection to our society. However, the same should go with public funding of faith-based schools such as the Roman Catholic system.

Radio debate on evolution

I listened to a debate between Dr. Geoffrey Simmons, from the Discovery Institute and Dr. PZ Myers. I recorded the audio, but it is available on the radio station and on PZ Myers blog.

Earlier in the day, PZ Myers received an e-mail from the radio hosts explaining that debate topic was being changed from the evidence of Evolution vs. evidence of Intelligent Design to whether evolution is fact or faith.

Simmons tried to explain that Darwinism equals evolution and there missing links in whale fossils; to which Myers tells him about several whale fossils that apparently Simmons does not know about.

In the end, Simmons resorts to ad hominems by saying Darwin did not like women and was a racist. Overall, PZ obviously won and one cannot debate or explain evolution in a hour. Hopefully, the hosts of the Christian radio program realize they got more than bargained for.

Positive Atheism

Video on positive atheism:

Kent Hovind's Dinosaurs and The Bible

As promised on CSEblogs,

Here is Kent Hovind's Dinosaurs And The Bible (two and half hours) long:



And Extant Dodo's Critical Analysis:



One of the funny things he says is that grizzly bears lived in Florida and that horses and zebras had a common ancestor (evoluton).

Does The Bible Condemn Pedophilia?

Video from Skeptic Bible Study on whether pedophilia is condemned in the Bible:



It is interesting that there is no clear law against having sex with children especially in Leviticus 20. It condemns sexual relations with close realtives very specifically. There was no priority by Biblical writers to condemn pedophilia.

We Are Animals

Creationists deny it, but it is a fact:

Humans are animals. We are mobile multicellular organisms whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall and we consume food (energy) from other organisms.

We are mammals. We are warm-blooded, have hair and feed milk to our young.

We are primates We are pentadactyly, we have fingernails and opposing thumbs, have a generalized dental pattern and a primitive body plan. We have forward-facing colour binocular vision.

We are apes. We do not have a tail, we are omnivorous, and we are highly intelligent.

We are humans. We are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens in the family Hominidae.

YEC Argument Video - Oldest Tree Is 4300 Years Old

My YouTube video that shows the oldest tree does not tell us about the age of the earth:

Keep Kent Hovind In Jail

I have created a petition asking that Kent Hovind be kept in jail for tax evasion. It is to counter another petition that wants Hovind out of jail.

Currently, I have over 200 signatures in about 12 hours since I mentioned this to one of the blogs I frequently visit. The other petition has less than 50.

This is not an "official" petition, but I want to show that more people do not agree with Kent Hovind.

Kent Hovind would probably say that most of the time, the majority is not right. But, if the majority of people believed that, would they be right?

Also, please refrain from adding fake names and comments to the other petition. There is no need to be immature about this.