Ahh, the 47th episode, in which we discuss Kent Hovind’s fabulously informative doctoral dissertation, for which he received his PhD in Christian Education from Patriot (Bible) University. Now, neither of us here at Irreligiosophy currently hold PhDs, so we were ill-prepared to tackle such a great work. Of course, that’s never stopped us before …
The results can be found here.
Posted in Bible, Creationism, Critiques, Podcasts.
– January 7, 2010
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This was a great show and I relished your picking apart “Dr.” Hovind’s alleged doctoral thesis. It really does not even rate as a junior high book report from a slow student.
Questions: (1) Where did you find his “thesis”? I’ve looked for it on-line and the last I heard was that it had been removed from public view because it was a “work in progress” (which you addressed) although I suspect that Hovind removed it because even he recognizes it for the pathetic excuse for a thesis that it is.
(2) Where can I find a copy of it? Or can you send me a copy of it?
I love listening to your show. You guys put me in a good mood from listening to all the laughing and giggling you do during the podcast. I find it every bit as infectious as the H1N1.
Thanks.
Sabina
Hey Leighton, you mention that you are building a business… It wouldn’t happen to be the University of Irreligiosophy? Imagine the coin you could rake in. Forget the beers, there’s serious money and girls in the Uni game.
Sabina — I found the “dissertation” at a link from Pharyngula (here), but the site is currently overloaded. Shoot us an email (irreligiosophy AT gmail.com) and I’ll hook you up. WARNING: I am not responsible for the inevitable death of millions of brain cells as a result of reading this thing.
Acular — Great idea. We could undercut Patriot Bible University by offering non-accredited PhDs for just $1898.
Wow… That was an awesome podcast. I was first introduced to Kent Hovind by a crazy young earth creationist at a street fair in Southern California. He gave me two of Hovind’s DVD’s. (“Age of the Earth” and “Dinosaurs and the Bible” They will drive you to the brink of insanity if you watch them. I had constant flashbacks to the stupidity and insanity I was taught as a home-schooled Seventh Day Adventist. Keep talkorigins.com open for a point by point refutation of his long since discredited claims.
I can send you copies if you dare subject yourselves to more of his insanity. It would make for more entertaining podcast material…
I can’t wait to earn my PHD from the Univ. of Irreligiosophy! Keep up the good work!
Great podcast guys.
Funny .Now i can tell my daughter to save for her own education.She can be a doctor ,a scientist ,,anything she wants.If shes got the cash.
Thank you for reading Kent Hovind’s thesis so I didn’t have too. I attempted to read this “thesis”, which appears to be a stolen book report on the Bible by some none-to-bright 3rd grader, but the sheer stupidity of it caused blood to leak out my ears. Thanks for taking the pain for all of us.
Leighton, your Confucius Says joke killed me and everyone at work thought I was a lunatic for laughing so loud with the headphones on.
Unquestionably, this was the best podcast ever: scholarly peer review by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Beavis of a paper that deserves to be perforated and put on a roll. Two-inch margins to protect the fingers while wiping one’s … Keep it up, gentlemen.
I loved the Kent Hovind podcast… it never gets old to bash him. I just wanted to rush to his defense on one minor point — the margins and line spacing. You guys busted on him for that, but lots of actual universities have (or used to have up until the early 90s anyway) draconian policies for margins and spacing. I agree that it looks ridiculous on paper, but I had some nice woman get out a ruler and make sure that mine were in compliance when I turned in my copies. Some other goofy rules were that figures had to be on a separate page, and the captions for those figures had to be on their own separate pages.
But, the moral of Kent’s story is that it’s the content that makes all the difference. Thanks for the fun. I couldn’t bring myself to read beyond his introduction on my own, so hearing you talk about it helped me get my fix.