Kent Hovind is in jail, right?

Question

so how does this answersingenesis pitch work?

"we know kent is a career trickster; we know he has no loyalty to his family, his country, or his business partners; we know he would sell his grandmother for $15 - and throw in his sister to make the weight up.

but when he speaks about the origins of the earth he is telling the pure unvarnished truth."

Answer 1

Yeah Pastor Art, no wonder they're close.

Apparently the shysterism runs in the family, as while he was in jail Hovind was caught scheming with his son over the phone to hide property.

Answer 2

Kent Hovind got some bad advice from a lawyer who believes the Income Tax Laws are not legal. They set up their Dinosaurland Adventure Park so that everyone who the IRS thought was an employee, was to them a sub contractor responsible for paying their own taxes. They also collected a lot of cash from the people visiting the park and to avoid IRS reporting they would sometimes put part of the money in the bank on one day and part the next. The IRS claimed Hovind should have paid staff members as employees and issued them W-2's instead of 1099's. So their 30 or so employees paid their own taxes, but the IRS claimed payroll withholding should have been done, it wasn't. So instead of getting their taxes once a week via Tax Deposits, the IRS got their money quarterly from each staff member, which were called "Missionaries" by Hovind. I think the IRS was on a witch hunt. I talk regularly on the telephone with the Hovind family about this. The case, as I understand it, is still under appeal. Edit: I stand corrected. The appeals have all run their course so the verdict I guess will stand. Very sad if you ask me.

Answer 3

Is that actually what the site has posted? I went there and saw nothing of the sort. Are you being a trickster by any chance?
Truth be told I had never even heard of the guy until a few months ago.

Here is the real problem, when we as Christians proclaim our faith.... we had better be darn sure our ducks are in a row. It is impossible to imagine how this Kent can justify his actions.
I read a little in the Wikipedia... and I am sure that that source is not completely reliable but nonetheless if it is true his actions are unconscionable. The upshot of it is that it calls into question his integrity.
What remains intact is God's word, and there are plenty of others whose integrity is still intact who uphold answersingenesis.

Answer 4

How do you know he's a career trickster, etc.? His ministry makes good money to provide for his family. You didn't give your source. Anyway, you should trust the Bible, no matter whether Kent Hovind is good or bad. Whether people behave or not has no effect whatsoever on whether or not the Bible is true. I don't like hypocritical Christians either, but I'm not gonna abandon my faith in Jesus Christ just because some "Christians," whether they're sincere believers or not, didn't behave the way they should have. Even the most devoted Christians don't live perfect lives. That's why we don't worship them. And by the way, sometimes Christians get thrown in jail just because they were being good Christians, which includes evangelizing to lost people, some of which don't take kindly to that. There are documented cases of that happening in America. Every case I know of where a Christian was jailed for evangelism, the Christian was cleared in a court case, no thanks to the ACLU, who usually is the prosecution in those types of cases. I don't know if that relates to Kent Hovind or not, but it's something to remember about inmates. Some of them are innocent.

Answer 5

Kent Hovind is in jail charged with tax evasion. He has nothing to do with Answers in Genesis.

Your other statement about family loyalty, country and so is false.

He is in jail because he refused to register as a 501 c 3 corporation (tax exempt). He listened to some lawyers who told him he was a ministry and was not required by law to file for 501 c 3. They were right. But the prosecution convinced the jury other wise. The judge agreed . He got 20 years.

Answer 6

Even the Answersingenesis people think Kent Hovind is an idiot. I think you mean drdino.com.

Either way, Creationists aren't exactly the most honest bunch of people, so I wouldn't expect them to say anything bad about Mr. Hovind. You'll get people saying that he's a political prisoner for his views challenging evolution or something.

Answer 7

He refused to pay ANY Federal Tax... it wasn't just school tax. He also tried to cover it up.

Ham has a lot to do with the answersingenesis. And as it stands, he's in trouble for lying to the sponsors, claiming that the mother company (in Australia) went out of business and that he was taking over and starting fresh in America. The Australia company is now suing him.

All of these "truthful" people just keep getting nailed for lying. Why people look up to them, I'll never know.

Answer 8

Kent Hovind is a fraud with a fake PhD who doesn't follow his holy book. He is in jail, though he doesn't work with AIG. His group is Creation Science Evangelism, and he has other people running it. No other creationism group uses the arguments he does because all have been so heavily discredited. If they're too discredited for AIG to use, they must be insanely old and bad.

Answer 9

1. Kent Hovind is in jail.

2. Kent Hovind is not connected to Answers in Genesis.

3. Nothing else you said about Kent is remotely true. You are lying about him, its just that simple.

I had breakfast with Kent's son in September. Their family is still very close.

Pastor Art

Answer 10

1) Answersingenisis is done by Ken Ham, not Kent Hovind.
2) You have never met him or even talked to him if you think that. I have talked to him. He is a good man who is in prison for standing up for his rights.
He wont have to do to much time. He only got 10 years, not 20.