📚 4 Books mentioned in "Part One: Kent Hovind: Fake Dinosaur Scholar and Accidental Child Killer | BEHIND THE BASTARDS" of Behind the Bastards
Podcast: Behind the Bastards
Episode: Part One: Kent Hovind: Fake Dinosaur Scholar and Accidental Child Killer | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Published on May 31, 2024
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Bible
But Hiles is a fundamentalist; he taught that people could not be born again unless they were brought to Christ using the King James Bible, which is a big thing for, I don't know, like a fifth of Christians in the country today.
The hosts elaborate on Jack Hiles, a fundamentalist known for insisting on the use of the King James Bible as a means of being born again, highlighting the influence of such extreme views on figures like Hovind.
Bible
He saw the tremendous need for exposing evolution as a dangerous religious worldview and for arming Christians with scientific evidence that there are no contradictions between true science and the Bible.
Kent Hovind is quoted discussing his motivation for his work. He refers to the Bible, emphasizing the importance of aligning it with scientific evidence.
Chemistry
It has one illustration, which was a diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum, literally cut out of an actual science textbook and taped badly inside the thesis.
During the discussion about Kent Hovind's dissertation, the hosts highlight that he included an illustration of the electromagnetic spectrum that had been cut from a science textbook and sloppily taped into his work.
God and the IRS
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To describe what happened next, I want to read a quote from a book by Professor Samuel Brunson called God and the IRS, which is about the difficulty the IRS has dealing with the religious right.
The host refers to Samuel Brunson's book, "God and the IRS," to provide context on the challenges the IRS faces with the religious right, illustrating the point about Kent Hovind's tax issues.