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Religions > Atheism |
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"Yang, AthD h.c, Kicking AWOLs Cocaine Snorting Ass" |
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31 Dec 2005 10:15:56 AM |
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A Review of Creationist Kent Hovind's "Dissertation" |
Well, my dissertation committee was a bit more demanding.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/bartelt_dissertation_on_hovind_thesis.htm
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
There is only one committee member, a Dr. Wayne Knight. Normally,
a thesis must pass muster with 3-5 committee members, all of whom make
suggestions and ultimately "sign off" on the thesis. Even the
undergraduate honors theses at my institution require the signatures
of two faculty members.
Misspellings are rampant. A careful, knowledgeable editor/adviser
would never allow a student to get away with misspelling "Caanan",
"Voltair", "Nyles Eldridge", Madelyn Murray "O'Hare" (just like the
airport), "Shintu" (the Japanese religion), "peersuaded",
"centrifical" (force!!!), "aught" (to!), "disippated", "immerged"
(from the slime), or "epic" (as in geological!). "It's" is used as a
possessive pronoun. There are several non sentences. This is
especially interesting since the course catalog of PU offers courses
like "Refresher English" and "Mechanics of Composition".
THE THESIS HAS NO TITLE. There are no references or footnotes. A
few partial citations are included in the body of the thesis, but they
are not in standard form, and are incomplete. In at least two places
(pp 65-66) the citation simply notes that there is a book title to be
added. This has no place in a final version.
The single illustration, the electromagnetic spectrum, is cut out
of a science textbook and taped on; it does not fit the page.
Additionally, there are substantial formatting errors typical of a
draft, but not a final, version. The final version is printed on a
dot-matrix printer, an absolute no-no, even in 1991.
The Ph.D. is in "Christian Education", not "Education" - that's
what the title page says. The coursework for the two degrees is
substantially different, but as late as 1-10-00, Hovind still seems
loath to advertising the "Christian" aspect of his degree. Curious
that a Christian would leave that part out!
At this point Hovind would surely cry "sour grapes", though these
conventions of format and style are typical, minimal and reasonable
for a "real" Ph.D. It becomes more evident that this thesis fails as a
Ph.D. dissertation when one examines the content.
As stated earlier in this review, a thesis is supposed to be a body of
ORIGINAL research. A thesis contains original and new data or theories
that ADD to the body of existing knowledge. This fundamental
requirement, more than the length of a thesis, differentiates a thesis
from a high school theme or term paper. PU says very little about the
doctoral dissertation except "Minimum of 150 typewritten pages; a
popular writing style is permitted for the dissertation" (1998 PU
Catalog, 19). From the content of this particular thesis one can
conclude that either Patriot University has substantially lower
standards for content and style (than conventional degree-granting
institutions) for its Ph.D., or that Hovind's thesis adviser never
read the dissertation. A chapter-by-chapter description follows:
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2177 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Now, did I want to go? Hell no."
-duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 63
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge, on why
a Neocon chickenhawk like him pussied out of
the Vietnam War.
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: A Review of Creationist Kent Hovind's "Dissertation" |
31 Dec 2005 02:43:19 PM |
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Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting ***** wrote:
Well, my dissertation committee was a bit more demanding.
<snip>
I can imagine what his orals must have been like.
Is Ten dollars and dinner enough?
No, no, try again.
How about $20.00, dinner and I promise to call you in the morning?
Oh.
Oh, Um, Oh
OH GOD.
Promise you'll call?
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: A Review of Creationist Kent Hovind's "Dissertation" |
01 Jan 2006 02:20:24 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:H3Ctf.60182
$tV6.22456@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net:
Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting ***** wrote:
Well, my dissertation committee was a bit more demanding.
<snip>
I can imagine what his orals must have been like.
Is Ten dollars and dinner enough?
No, no, try again.
How about $20.00, dinner and I promise to call you in the morning?
Oh.
Oh, Um, Oh
OH GOD.
Promise you'll call?
More like "Just...don't get it in my eye."
--
Doc Smartass XP - New Interface, Same Old *****
Keep THOR in THURSDAY!
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