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The scare quotes in the title are necessary. This could be a hoax, of course, but a document that purports to be Kent Hovind\u2019s \u201cdoctoral dissertation\u201d is making the rounds<\/a>. I couldn\u2019t get the links at WikiLeaks<\/a> to work, but this site has it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Simple Prop<\/a> has a photo of the \u201cuniversity\u201d from which Hovind\u2019s \u201cdoctorate\u201d was obtained.<\/p>\n

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The scare quotes in the title are necessary. This could be a hoax, of course, but a document that purports to be Kent Hovind\u2019s \u201cdoctoral dissertation\u201d is making the rounds. I couldn\u2019t get the links at WikiLeaks to work, but this site has it. A Simple Prop has a photo of the \u201cuniversity\u201d from which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nKent Hovind's "Doctoral Dissertation"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The scare quotes in the title are necessary. 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