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Agape Press ^ | March 6, 2006 | Jim Brown
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Interesting article in The York Dispatch (near Dover, PA) about
Hovind's activities:
<http://www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_3597850>Creationist speaker
'loose about the facts'. It's worth a thread of its own, but we've
already got this one. Excerpts (with lots of skips not indicated):

"A bunch of people who are peddling bad science are accusing him of
peddling even worse science."

In a series of correspondence, Hovind and the creationist group
Answers in Genesis have vented their disagreements on the proper
arguments to use when teaching creationism. The group has criticized
some of the arguments Hovind has used in his speeches, ranging from
examples of old science to claims the group said have never been
substantiated.

Hovind is perhaps best known as the builder of the Pensacola, Fla.,
Dinosaur Adventure Land, an anti-evolution mini-theme park he built
in his back yard in 2001.

But officials in Escambia County claim Hovind never filed the proper
zoning-permit requests for his theme park and have charged him with
failure to observe county zoning regulations.

Hovind unsuccessfully filed for bankruptcy in 1996; a judge found
that he filed false tax schedules, made a "bad-faith" court filing
and lied about his income in order to evade paying income tax.

In 2004, the Internal Revenue Service raided Hovind's home, asserting
that he evaded taxes and doesn't have the proper business licenses or
tax exemptions for his ministry and the theme park.

Hovind denies that he broke any law, including the zoning rules, and
said he doesn't know why charges have been filed against him.

Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana
University who studies the creationism movement and testified in
Dover's intelligent design case, has said Hovind lacks a fundamental
understanding of the rules of science and history.

Forrest has pointed out that, in his book, "Unmasking the False
Religion of Evolution," Hovind said Cherokee Indians' belief in
evolution led to that nation's defeat and The Trail of Tears, the
route the Indians traveled when forced to give up their lands east of
the Mississippi River.

But The Trail of Tears migration occurred in the late 1830s, and
Darwin's book "The Origin of Species" wasn't published until 1859.

And though Hovind bills himself as "Dr. Kent Hovind," Forrest is one
of many scientists who question the credibility of Hovind's Ph.D.

Hovind says he graduated from Patriot University in Colorado in 1991,
when it was affiliated with a Baptist church.

The school, which was later renamed Patriot Bible University, is not
accredited by a federally recognized accrediting agency.

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posted on 03/13/2006 11:58:28 AM EST by
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