About Kent Hovind’s education:
He holds three degrees in Christian education (1974, 1988, 1991) from unaccredited institutions.
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In 1988 and 1991 respectively, Hovind was awarded a master’s degree and doctorate in Christian Education through correspondence from the non-accredited Patriot University in Colorado Springs, Colorado (now Patriot Bible University in Del Norte, Colorado which no longer offers this program).
Having a website called “Dr. Dino,” has provoked some academics to closely look at how Hovind presents his education and credentials.[12] Chemistry professor Karen Bartelt has said that it is “ very unusual for a person with a Ph.D., even a real one,” [emphasis in original] to list oneself in the phonebook as “Dr Hovind”, as Hovind has done. Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy, expert on the history of creationism and activist in the Creation-evolution controversy, wrote that Hovind’s lack of academic training makes it impossible to engage him on a professional level. Other critics of Hovind have charged that Patriot Bible University is a diploma mill, as it has unreasonably low graduation requirements, lack of sufficient faculty or educational standards, and a suspicious tuition scheme. The school’s current policies allow students to attain bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and even “Doctor of Ministry” degrees in months, rather than years, for as little as $25 per month. Currently Patriot offers a monthly fee, unlike most universities, which only charge per-credit fees.
Bartelt has stated Hovind’s doctoral dissertation is evidence of the poor requirements at Patriot and that Hovind lacks knowledge of basic science. Bartelt noted that Hovind’s dissertation is incomplete (contains four chapters totalling 101 pages, but Hovind’s introduction claims the work is 250 pages with 16 chapters), of low academic quality, poor writing, poor spelling, poor grammatical style, pages are repeated, references are absent, and it is not original work with original ideas. …
Patriot will not send copies of Hovind’s doctoral dissertation except with his permission. As a general rule, doctoral dissertations are published by the associated university and made available to the public, so that other students conducting research in similar areas may use the information in the dissertation as a reference. Although one copy of the dissertation is on file at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) the organization is not able to provide it on request because of copyright and distribution restrictions.
In short, the credibility of the entirety of Hovind’s education is deeply suspicious – an observation that is hardly diminished by Hovind’s prominent activities in Young Earth Creationism.
'Luthon64
