• Archive for December, 2009

    Is Canadian Witchcraft Law Useful Against Naturopaths?

    by  • 12/11/2009 • insanity • 1 Comment

    The National Post has an interesting article today about a rarely used piece of Canadian law; Woman faces witchcraft charge in fraud case. , a 36 year old woman is facingin eight charges including the witchcraft charge. Police have invoked a rarely used witchcraft charge against a Toronto woman [Vishwantee Persaud] accused of defrauding a [...]

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    Unbiased Readability Analysis of The Hovind Thesis

    by  • 12/10/2009 • humor • 1 Comment

    People who have tried reading the Kent Hovind thesis say that English as a Second Language students write better, or that it sounds like an eight year old could have done better (On my summer vacation, I earned a PhD!). I decided to get the stats. I found a page on addedbytes.com that does a [...]

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    Kent Hovind’s DISSERTATION FOR DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION – full text

    by  • 12/10/2009 • religion • 8 Comments

    Finished proofing the OCR of Kent Hovind’s doctoral thesis, and I believe that this is not the full and complete document. It’s only 102 pages long in the Wikileaks provided PDF, and appears to be only a couple chapters at best; there are chapters referenced in the introduction that simply aren’t here. This embarrassing bit [...]

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    Creationist Poetry 101

    by  • 12/9/2009 • humor • 2 Comments

    I took a break from reading the Hovind Thesis, and was going to hold off on posting anything until I got the full thing edited into a nice text file to post. I’ve found the best part of the whole thing starting on page 82. It’s a poem. Yes, a poem that Kent composed to [...]

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    Kent Hovind’s Imitation Dissertation

    by  • 12/9/2009 • religion • 1 Comment

    There’s a pretty good reason why Kent Hovind didn’t want to have his dissertation made available in the way most are… it’s garbage. It gets more outrageous the further I get into the document. UPDATE – I have the full proofed text on a newer post – search it, enjoy… I think I caught all [...]

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