Kent Hovind

The self-named "Dr. Dino", a tax-cheating former high school teacher who devoted himself to lecturing around the country trying to trick people into believing ing creationism. His Masters and Doctorate degrees are from an unaccreditted college that charges between $15 and $32 a credit, and has no listed faculty. He uses a combination of obsolete data, logical fallacies (most commonly reducto ad absurdum, and sometimes the variation thereon, reducto ad hitlerum), doctored quotations and technical jargon in order to trick people who don't believe in evolution into not believing in evolution. That is, he did until he was sentenced to ten years in federal prison in the January 2007 for tax evasion.

$250,000 Challenge
Much has been made of "Dr." Hovind's open challenge, wherein he claims that he will pay anyone who can offer any evidence of evolution $250,000. Further inspection of the contest rules shows that what he means by "any" evidence of evolution is proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Biological, Chemical and Planetary evolution both happened and happened without the involvement of God. That's right. In order to prove evolution is happening, you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no God.

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