Dr. Kent Hovind Biography
Dr. Kent Hovind is an American Christian fundamentalist evangelist and tax protestor born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, United States. He is well known for his controversial movement, Young Earth Creationist. The movement focuses on denial of scientific theories in evolution, geophysics, and cosmology.
Dr. Kent Hovind Age
Kent E. Hovind is 67 years old as in 2020, he was born on January 15th, 1953 in Pensacola, Florida, United States. He celebrates his birthday every January 15th of every year. Hovind turns 68 years on January 15th, 2021.
Dr. Kent Hovind Height
Hovind appears to be quite tall if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.
Dr. Kent Hovind Education
He then joined the accredited Illinois Central College and later transferred to the Midwestern Baptist College in 1972, he graduated a Bachelor of Religious Education in 1974. He received a master’s degree and a doctorate in Christian Education through correspondence from Patriot University in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Dr. Kent Hovind Family
After doing our research, details about his parents are not available and it is also not known if he has any siblings.
Dr. Kent Hovind Wife
Hovind has been married twice. At first, he was married to Jo Hovind. The duo tied the knot in 1973 but they later got a civil divorce in 2016. Later on, Hovind got married to Mary Tocco in 2016. Their marriage was officiated by Eric Philpott, a Texas preacher. Their marriage was memorialized in a Hovind video.
Dr. Kent Hovind Wife, Mary Tocco
is a natural health care researcher. She is well known as the Vice President for the Foundation for Pediatric Health(501c3). Additionally, she is the co-founder of the American Chiropractic Autism Board(ACAB). Tocco is on the Board of Directors for WAVE, World Association for Vaccine Education.
Dr. Kent Hovind Wife Age| Mary Tocco Age
Details about Kent’s date of birth are not known, she likes to keep her personal matters away from the public eye hence making it difficult to know her exact age. This section will be updated as soon as it’s available.
Dr. Kent Hovind Children
Hovind has three children from his former relationship with Jo Hovind. Two of the children’s names are Erick Hovind, Marlissa Dublin. Details about their third child are yet to be known.
Dr. Kent Hovind Quick Facts and Body Measurements
Here are some interesting facts you don’t want to miss about Hovind;
- Full Name: Dr. Kent E. Hovind
- Age/ How Old?: 67 years old as in 2020
- Date of Birth: January 15th, 1953
- Place of Birth: Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Education: Patriot University
- Birthday: January 15th
- Nationality: American
- Married?: Yes, Ex Jo Hovind, Mary Tacco
- Children/ Kids: 3 children; Erick Hovind, Marlissa Dublin
- Height/ How tall?: Not Available
- Profession: Christian fundamentalist evangelist and Tax Protestor
- Net worth: Not Available
Dr. Kent Hovind Career
Hovind established Creation Science Evangelism in 1989 to evangelize and teach creationism. In May 1999, his son Eric joined Creation Science Evangelism as a speaker, and his daughter Marlissa began training to become Hovind’s secretary. That year, CSE merged with Faith Baptist Fellowship of Hawthorne, Florida, beginning a relationship that lasted until 2002.
In 2003, with the aid of Glenn Stoll (a promoter of tax avoidance schemes), Hovind set up a series of entities starting with “an unincorporated association of pure trust” on May 13, under which a corporation sole and several ministerial trusts were established starting on May 23. CSE properties were conveyed to the trusts which operated under business licenses from the “Kingdom of Heaven”.
DR. Kent Hovind Taxes
Hovind is associated with the Unregistered Baptist Fellowship (UBF), a loosely affiliated group of roughly 100 churches that shares a “theology of Christian resistance” to civil governments. Because the UBF would consider it an acknowledgment of government authority over the church, they reject the highly favorable 501(c)3 status, which makes donations and exempts them from income tax, but not FICA taxes or employee income tax withholding.
The UBF holds that governmental authority stops “at the threshold of the church”, and Hovind has likened his ministry’s status to that of the Vatican City State.[20] When the federal government obtained a search warrant in 2004, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal investigator made the sworn statement that the organization did not have a business license and did not have tax-exempt status.
Dr. Kent Hovind Website
Hovind was convicted of 58 felony counts in November 2006 and sentenced to ten years in prison in January 2007; Eric Hovind announced that he would take over Creation Science Evangelism. In July 2007, God Quest Inc. was incorporated with Eric Hovind as president, and that November, God Quest Inc. filed in Florida to do business under the trade name Creation Science Evangelism.
In June 2008, Eric announced that the CSE website would incorporate the CSE blog and change format allowing for “only positive comments” about Hovind and CSE, and in late 2011, Creation Science Evangelism’s DrDino.com website was redirected to CreationToday.org. The new website announced “Creation Today is a ministry of God Quest, Inc.” with his focus on “creation, apologetics, and evangelism.”
Dr. Kent Hovind Youtube
On September 16, 2007, the Rational Response Squad complained that Creation Science Evangelism was filing spurious DMCA requests, resulting in their YouTube videos being taken down, and their account banned. In response to the copyright claims, the RRS threatened a lawsuit.
At the time of the complaints, the CSE’s website indicated the videos were not copyrighted, and the CSE encouraged copying and distributing them. Five days later, the CSE copyright page was changed to say that copied material must be left unedited. According to a spokesperson for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CSE’s claim was “clearly bogus”, and as of September 25, 2007, the Rational Response Squad account had been reinstated, and some of the videos had been put back online.
Dr. Kent Hovind Debate
Prior to his convictions, Hovind was a prolific debater. While Hovind campaigns against evolution, the level of support for evolution is essentially universal within the scientific community and academia, while support for creationism is minimal among scientists in general, and virtually nonexistent among those in the relevant fields: biology, paleontology, geology, etc. C. A. Chinn and L. A. Buckland classify his debate style, common among Young Earth Creationists, as eristic: focused on winning by rhetoric rather than illuminating by careful examination of evidence.
In 1993, Hovind announced that he would be debating the renowned evolutionary biologist, Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould has been a longstanding opposition to debating Creationists. Also, he had turned down numerous challenges. When contacted about the announcement, Gould said he had never heard of Hovind, much less agreed to debate.
In May 2004, Michael Shermer debated Hovind in front of a predominantly creationist audience. Shermer claimed the exchange was “not an intellectual exercise”, but rather “an emotional drama,” and concluded, “Unless there is a subject that is truly debatable with a format that is fair, in a forum that is balanced, it only serves to belittle both the magisterium of science and the magisterium of religion.”
Dr. Kent Hovind and Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci also debated Hovind and expressed surprise at Hovind’s ignorance of evolutionary theory. Pigliucci recalled Hovind tried “to convince the audience that evolutionists believe humans came from rocks” and subsequently “evolved from bananas.” William Reville, Director of Microscopy at University College Cork, wrote that Hovind’s ideas are not rational or scientific because they are not testable.
Hovind has repeatedly declined offers for written debates where his claims would be scrutinized by scientists, including his decline of a debate offer from Dave Thomas. During a debate with Farrell Till, Hovind said that Donald Johanson had uncovered the leg bones of Lucy at a different site over a mile away from the reported site, in a deeper stratum, quipping, “I would like to know how fast the train was going that hit that chimpanzee.”
This was clearly contrary to the published statements by Johanson. After Hovind had been informed in 1993 that his statement was false, he agreed to stop using the claim. When he repeated the claim in 1995, he once more agreed he was in error.
Dr. Kent Hovind Today | Dr. Kent Hovind Released
Local evangelist Kent Hovind has been released from federal prison and is back in Pensacola. Hovind served about nine years of a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted of failing to withhold employee income taxes and “structuring” bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements.
Hovind is on home confinement for approximately the next month and told supporters he will concentrate on being a husband and a father for a while before going back to work in his ministry. He was facing additional prison time for federal charges of mail fraud, related conspiracy, and contempt. The government alleged that Hovind and his trustee, Paul Hansen, illegally contested the government’s right to sell property from Hovind’s ministry to settle a $430,000 tax debt.
In a March trial, a jury found Hovind guilty of contempt, but the verdict that was later reversed by U.S. Chief Judge M. Casey Rodgers. The jury was hung on the mail fraud and conspiracy charges, and federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the charges rather than retry the case. The government does have the option to re-raise the charges at a later date.
Dr. Kent Hovind Email Address | Kent Hovind Dr. Dino Website
You can easily access him by calling his phone on 855.BIG.DINO (244.3466) or visit his site drdino.com to access his e-mail.
Dr. Kent Hovind Books
He has written books like:
- What on Earth Is about to Happen for Heaven’s Sake: A Dissertation on End Times According to the Holy Bible
- The Kennel: Exposing the Prison Industrial Complex from Within
- The Colorado Adventures: The Adventures of the Hovind Grandchildren Book 2
- Postulating Christ: The Evolutionary Default
- The Long Trip: The Adventures of the Hovind Grandchildren Book 1
- The Adventures of Dinosaur
- Danny the Dinosaur: Book 1: In The Garden of Eden
- The Long Trip Home: The Adventures of the Hovind Grandchildren Book 3
- Inside the Circle: The Magic Globe Series
- Kailey and the Pelican: Kailey and Grandpa Visit Namibia, South Africa
- The Great Pumpkin
- The Three Bears and the Cactus: Adventures of the Three Bears
- Plants
- Why Do Flowers Face the Sun? The Adventures of the Three Bears
- When I Was a Boy: The Magic Globe Series
- Why Do We Bleed? The Adventures of the Three Bears
- Why on Earth Did This Happen… for Heaven’s Sake? Dear God Knee-Mail
- Stephanie’s Visit to Norway: The Magic Globe Series
- Kailey and Grandpa Visit Israel: The Magic Globe Series
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