Remember Kent Hovind? Of course you do. The last we heard everybody’s favourite creationist nutbar and his creationist nutbar wife were looking at spending the foreseeable future preaching from behind bars. Well, Hovind’s sentence has been handed down, and it’s pretty much what everyone expected.
Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud.
After a lengthy sentencing hearing that last 5 1/2 hours, U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers ordered Hovind also:
—Pay $640,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
—Pay the prosecution’s court costs of $7,078.
—Serve three years parole once he is released from prison.
Hovind’s wife, Jo Hovind, also was scheduled to be sentenced. Rodgers postponed her sentencing until March 1 to allow her defense attorney an opportunity to argue possible discrepancies in sentencing guidelines.
Prior to his sentencing, a tearful Kent Hovind, also known as “Dr. Dino” asked for the court’s leniency.
“If it’s just money the IRS wants, there are thousands of people out there who will help pay the money they want so I can go back out there and preach,” Hovind said.
Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty in November of 58 federal counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He faced a maximum of 288 years in prison.
Jo Hovind was charged and convicted in 44 of the counts involving evading bank-reporting requirements and faces a maximum of 225 years in prison.
Kent Hovind, who is incarcerated in the Escambia County Jail, will be assigned to a prison by the Bureau of Prisons. Rodgers recommended Kent Hovind be sent to the prison at Saufley Field in Pensacola so he will be close to his family.
It will be up to the Bureau of Prisons, however, to make that determination.
Would it be considered in poor taste to gloat a little over this? Maybe, but that won’t stop me.
Read the comments beneath the article for an extra laugh.
I recognise, like and respect konstantin’s upbeet mood, though do not feel compelled, I do not expect happiness of anyone for complicated reasons – that in life it’s not possible to always stay genuinely happy, that sadness has meaning, and people shouldn’t be expected to falsify emotions.
Konstantin may be take a different stance conceptually, and be hard to move, but even so he’s far, far, more pleasent and more human than this guy. I vote for an end to poking fun here, because i’m starting to have some level of respect.
Without giving ‘definite proof’, it ties in very, very well with what we observe in chemistry, and it would seem almost uncanny to have that level of agreement if it was wrong. If you discard atom theory, you have to at least find another explanation for everything we see, and also say why it isn’t atom theory.
If it was god making these results, it would seem he’s deliberately making results so consistent and patterned that it allows people to believe in another theory that doesn’t involve him – that would meen he wants it to be possible for atheism to exist, that would need an explanation, and I think I may have one for you…
Atomic orbitals, with shapes predicted by a mathematical wavefunction. Basically they’re just ‘probability clouds’ of where you’re likely to find an electron at a certain energy level. So far it fits well to explain theory (i.e. bond enthalpy affected by orbital overlap) and no observation so far challenges it, if it did we’d be forced to re-think.
Providing you eventually defeat the wrong idea in your head, it provided an extra philosophical direction of thought, and even if it’s a lie it might be useful in broadening one’s mind or providing analogies to explain things – to get a bigger point across.
That’s because it’s not coming towards your eyes. However supposing (unrealistically) you were able to see objects as small as photons, and that the speed of light was slow enough that you could see it pass by, then you would see the perpendicular light beam, but it’d look smudgy because light has high wave character, so there’s be high uncertainty in it’s central position
I have been told there are parts of the bible telling people to kill people who work on the sabath
I have also been told that the bible tells people not to kill (I havn’t read the bible myself)
I read somewhere (maybe here, it was a while back) that there are more than one creation theories in the bible. Point is parts of the bible contradicts other parts of the same book – and not entirely surprising given it has more than one author.
(unrelated) Evolution does not necessarily contradict creation – you can have both in the same theory, it just means you cannot rely entirely on personalised creation to explain all the species we have.
Depression is self destruction. Being depressed doesn’t make someone evil or mean they are listening to the devil, but those who try to make others depressed for no good intention are evil.
I say no good intention, because a person who comes out of depression is more resilient when recovered, and you can intend to make someone depressed to benefit them this way, so long as you are aware of what you’re doing in terms of feelings. Ultimately this arguement is invented to allow justification of pain in life and hell, because it needs a justification if we’re to use a god theory.
Your past intentions is an expression of your heart, though it does not define what it currently is. I agree that shallow begging wouldn’t save, because it’s not genuine repentance. I do not see the fairness or reason in only (or more easily) saving people by ‘the end’ – why base it on some unrelated event at some arbitary time?
Time is necessary for changes to occur when it takes time for things to move, but as a dimension, time alone won’t give you more matter and energy to play with, it’d just make it possible for what you’ve already got to do stuff.
But outside of the time when he’s alive, he’ll be in spirit form – and if you meet him and don’t know he’s the antichrist, you may be vulnerable. It’d be useful to identify the personality characteristics that make someone good/bad, so you can tell them appart, so you’re not vulnerable.
But we don’t know when we’re going to die – we might not have the chance to get forgiven just because of the way things turned out, even if we would’ve taken that oppertunity given time
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If so that’s exactly what prevents our study of him.
Any feeling of repentance feels like the pain of looking at myself inwardly, that come from myself – I cannot attribute that to anyone other than me (i.e. not god). Though I suppose god may be able to make you feel +want anything he wanted you to, so I suppose (unrelated) ultimately he could control our decisions despite free will, by telling us what we want.
On cherry picking – your overall perception of any collection of points doesn’t define the actual truthfullness of the individual points. If you break it up into lots of concepts, dealing with each at a time, rather than as a whole, you can filter it and better credit the more deserving points. Merry xmas.
Poor guy’s
you’all making fun of mr. Hovind but you don’t realise that you’re the ones doing the real time. please come back from your ill speaking and bad mouthing other human beings. maybe kent is convicted for holding back money, let me warn you. you will all be convicted of not loving your brethren.
know i will pray for you in the hope you’ll repent.
I wish you’d pray less and practice typing more. It would make your inane comments a lot easier to read.
I’ve had a quick pray, and the ‘warm fuzzy-o-meter’ is reading 8.73.
No fair, Last Hussar. You must have stronger faith than I do, my “warm-fuzzy” is a mere 6.90
The man screwed up that is for sure, but that doesn’t mean that he was not right about evolution or about God! You peopl love to talk trash but you don’t know what you are saying. God is real wheather you believe or not. I can say that I don’t believe in cars but if I walk out in the road, whats going to happen? God is real and there is not a thing that you can do abput that. Just ask yourself, If there is a God and He knows all and is as mighty as the Bible says, then why would you not want to know Him?
God is more than mighty, He is loving and caring. He even loves you people who are talking trash about Him. If God doesn’t exsist than why do you spend so much time hating Him?
Was that already the Full Monty?
Elwed, I love your play on words. Monte also plays on words, like, “God is real . . .”, “There is a God and He knows all . . .”, and then he spoils it all by narrowing it down to the god of the Bible. Make up your mind, Monte, is God real or is He the God of the Bible? Too many contradictions for both to be true.
Okay, I’ll ask myself, Monte. Hmmm… hard to say: if He is as the Bible says He is, He has a nasty temper, and sometimes orders people to kill babies. I’d want to stay away from Someone like that. On the other hand, if He knows all, I probably can’t get away from Him anyway, so I’d be better off kissing His Ass and hoping He doesn’t make mincemeat of me.
Luckily, though, this is all academic, because He doesn’t exist after all. What a relief!
There’s no ‘him’ to hate, Monte. We’d never give it a thought, if the godders weren’t constantly trying to screw with our laws and our education system based on bronze-age mythology.
Monte- I can easily show you a car, let you ride in it, and if you insist, hit you with it (though I’d rather not).
When can we shake your god’s hand?
It’s not God’s hand you’re going to be shaking, Hussar.
The morons who believe in him do exist though, and they’re a dangerous, unstable pain in the ass. I don’t believe in unicorns either, but if unicorn believers were as much of a menace as Christians and the other religious folks you can be sure I’d be rattling every door every day trying to get idiots to get off their screwed up unicorn delusion.
I came across your website purely by chance and I am appalled at how so many people can hate someone that has never done anything to them or to anyone else except the government(last time I checked that wasn’t such a bad thing). I don’t agree with what Hovind did, I don’t know that I totally agree with all of his teachings, even though I believe in Jesus Christ. I don’t hate anyone though except for child mollesters,rapists,serial killers and the like. I have met many people who do not believe in God and I respect their beliefs. To each his own. But ripping into a man who has taken good care of his family and people around him doesn’t deserve to be verbally given one up the ass. Scuze my french!:) Whether you believe in Creation,the Big Bang,or that we all came from chimps you still ought to be able to have common decency for your fellow man. When did we all start being such assholes. I went to school with his kids in high school and they were a really sweet family. Their youngest is phisically and mentally disabled and I cringe to think you may be taking care of him now that both of his parents are in prison. Give the guy a break and take the high road. Everybody in this life fu$$s up sometimes we’re all human. Hitting someone when they are down just makes you worse than them. IMO