CSE Seminar Notebook - Free Bible Resources

“We should all be concernedwith the future because wewill have to spend the rest ofour lives there.”—Charles F.Kettering“What is the use of beingelected or re-elected unlessyou stand for something?”—President GroverClevelandBaptistChurchin Alamosa, COwhereitcontinues to thrivetoday. Patriot now offers aDoctor of Ministry degreeratherthan aPh.D. in education becausetheState of Coloradoaskedthem to make thechange to emphasizethereligious natureoftheirinstitution. Someillinformed scoffers have even circulatedapicture of the churchparsonagenexttothechurch(whichhas thesameaddress) and claimed this is wherePatriotis now located. Idon'tunderstand theirtwisted logic but,evidently, they think this somehow discredits me.Patriot allows students togiveofferings totheschool insteadof aregular tuition payment. Somescoffers havelaughed atthis idea; yet, they don'tseem torealizethis is God's methodand they alsoforget how manythousands havegonethroughsecular schools without usingany of their own money viagrants, scholarships or their parents' savings.Somehaveridiculed thesize of the school. Itwould beinteresting to seethelook on thescoffer's faceif they knewthesizeoftheschools many of our early presidents, congressmen,and military leaders graduated from. If Harvard offers aPh.D. degreeprogram withonly threeorfour students (thishappens atmany schools, sometimes withonly one student),does the small number automaticallymean they arenot“earningtheir degree” orthat they areattending a“diplomamill” school? Of coursenot! Hundreds ofcolleges and universitiesoffer classes bycorrespondence. Thereis nothing wrongwiththis. Iworkedvery hard formy degrees. Idon'tknow ifothers doornot. Patriothas about25graduates each year,three tofiveofwhich are getting doctorate degrees.My 20-year studyof thecreation/evolutionism subject led metostart Creation ScienceEvangelism in 1991. Inow speakmorethan 700 times each year on thesubject. Ihavehadmorethan 80 debates and have been agueston over 5000radio and television talkshows. My itineraryis availablefrommyofficeor on my web site, and any evolutionistinterestedin apublicdebateis welcometocontactmetoarrangeatimewhile Iam in their area to be held at aplaceof their choosing.Seemyweb site for details. Sincesomeseem to think Idon'thave a“legitimatedegree,” theycan callmeKent, Mr. Hovindor even “hey, you,” if itwillmake them feelbetter. Since theydon'tthink Iam “properly educated,” itshould beeasyforthem to demonstratehow wrong Iam and how muchevidencethereisfor evolution. Ishould beapushover, but Iamwilling to debatethem anyway and run therisk of publiclyembarrassingmyself. BTW, wehavenow upped our offer to$250,000 forevidencefor evolution.Ifyou would like thenames of scientists whosupport theyoungearth creationistposition you may wantto contact theInstitute for Creation Researchat 619-448-0900 or ICR.ORG.They can supply you withalist. Ionly claim tohave manyyears ofexperiencein studyingthe subjectand thecommonsense to know thattheuniverseis too complex tohavehappened without an incredibly smart designer (whom IDr. Kent Hovind • office (850) 479-DINO (3466) •Fax 479-8562 88