Comments on: Setting a new standard for creationist historical scholarship http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/ suffering under the sun Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: diglot http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8372 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:47:49 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8372 Wow, brings a whole new meaning to “diploma mill.”

Shocking stuff.

]]> By: Matt http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8352 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:13:40 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8352 Presumably, the revisionist-history account of Galileo is to get around the fact that the real reason-Galileo’s attack on biblical geocentrism-would be an unconscionable admission that the Bible is wrong. The “Voltair” section deserves equal mockery-Voltaire allegedly tried to create a 10-day week during the French Revolution. Voltaire died in 1778, 11 years before said revolution, so he must have returned as a zombie.

Any high school student would fail this assignment for lack of citations. Any college student would fail the class and risk expulsion for the same.

Unfortunately, exposing the sham dissertation does nothing. Patriot has never been accredited so the government has no recourse. You’d probably need something more blatant, like getting a pet or dead person a diploma, to get it closed for fraud. Even then, getting a DA or the state attorney general’s office involved isn’t a guarantee. The only recourse, criminalize or restrict the use of degrees from non-accredited schools, is nothing new. Not that the 18-year old ravings of an obscure, imprisoned kook will make it a priority.

Now that we’ve seen this, I’d love to see the Master’s thesis from Patriot-Hovind claims an MA in Christian Education from Patriot University, so he should have had a thesis for the degree. Maybe he’ll go after the evil atheistic dogma that 1+1=2.

]]> By: Tom R. http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8345 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:20:11 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8345 Wait, you’re telling me that I can just write 200 pages of barely literate drivel, not provide any evidence for my cockamamie conclusions, and get my PhD? Screw Yale, I’m off to Patriot Bible!

]]> By: John Pieret http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8344 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:40:58 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8344 I’ve failed undergraduates for writing like this!

I’m pretty sure there are eighth grade teachers who have failed students for writing like that.

]]> By: The Hovind dissertation « Playing Chess with Pigeons http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8325 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:14:00 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8325 [...] Read. Laugh. Or for an excellent overview see Karen Bartlet’s review. And here is John Lynch’s take on it. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Young-earth [...]

]]> By: Maine Prof http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8319 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:40:51 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8319 “Taking only evidence that supports a preconceived idea and rejecting all other evidence is not very intelligent or scientific.”

You said it, Mr. Hovind…

One finger points and three point back.

]]> By: Enough http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8317 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:17:45 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8317 An how could Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin have been in Malaysia when that country did not exists until 1963? Wallace spend time in the Malay archipelagos,specifically the Malaya Peninsula and the South western part of the island of Borneo, Sarawak. Sarawak became a state in the Federation of Malaysia in 1963.

]]> By: Maine Prof http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8316 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:52:23 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8316 Another “profound” quotation: “America is rapidly losing ground in the world market in our science students. We are turning out students that many other countries are able to beat in academic scores and academic knowledge because we waste so much class time and textbook time on this dumb idea of evolution.”

“Dr. Dino” tells it like it is, folks!

]]> By: Maine Prof http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8315 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:21:04 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8315 Wow–I think I’ll use excerpts to teach how NOT to construct an argument. Aside from demonstrating that he is seriously impaired with regards to the basics of English grammar, his general ignorance displayed throughout is astounding.

One of my favorite moments demonstrating Hovind’s intellectual vacuity is from page 26 on the PDF copy when he posits: “I think it is not a coincidence that people who are atheists or evolutionists frequently have a wicked lifestyle or at least a lifestyle against the plain teachings of the Bible. Therefore, evolution is an easy way for them to justify their lifestyle [sic]. The problem is one of philosophy, not one of science. They don’t want there to be a God because of their wicked lifestyle [sic]. That is their real problem.”

So, evolution is basically a scheme concocted to justify a “wicked lifestyle.” How could we have missed that fact for so long?

]]> By: James http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-8314 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:52:03 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/setting-the-standard-for-yec-scholarship/#comment-8314 Words fail me on this one… *draw drops*

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