Creationist Kent Hovind: still in jail

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Category: Creationism • Kooks
Posted on: January 12, 2010 9:36 AM, by PZ Myers

pparently, Kent Hovind filed for an appeal to the Supreme Court based on a claim that he really wasn't trying to finagle his way past US tax laws by structuring all of his bank withdrawals to be under $10,000, therefore avoiding a trigger that would demand they be reported; it's unfair to target withdrawals that way, and besides, they were all for his Christian ministry. Hovind also had another ace up his sleeve: he begged his readers to pray for him.

I guess God doesn't like him: "Mr. Hovind's appeal for a rehearing before the Supreme Court has been denied.".

By the way, Kent Hovind is still putting up bizarre dialogs on his CSE blogs. He's been having conversations with God, dead Egyptian priests, and Christian saints, who all reassure him about how clever and smart and good he is, despite being in prison for tax evasion. It's pathetic and sad. There has to be a word for this: it's a kind of mega-sockpuppetry, in which it isn't just random strangers on the internet mysteriously popping up to back him up — it's God and the saints and heroes of history who are all appearing as voices in his head to validate him.

Oh, I guess there is a word for that. It's called "religion".

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/01/kent_hovind_still_in_jail.php

[trotsky]

1. Glad to have him out there as a public face for cretinism.

Oops, did I make a typo there?

[Don Caballero]

2. Why are creationists given any attention?

They are proven wrong over and over. They should have no input in any conversation anywhere.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I thought about 'Doctor' Hovind just the other day

so I made sure he hadn't weaseled his way out of prison. Apparently it's not for lack of trying, as I saw some websites proclaiming his persecution & pleading for his release. I have no doubt he'll build up a Ponzi scheme ministry upon release from prison, even though it looks like he'll serve all the time he was given.