International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

This essay argues that Kent Hovind’s Creation Science Evangelism message fits within the paranoid style of rhetoric first developed by Richard Hofstadter. Specifically this article will focus on an examination of rudiments of the paranoid style that were extracted from Hofstadter’s work by Lesley Di Mare and Craig Allen Smith. This analysis will be comprised of the elements that both exemplify the paranoid style and that have developed uniquely to the field of modern creation science. While deliberating components of Hovind’s Creation Science in its entirety, this work will spotlight two artifacts; part four of Hovind’s Creation Science Seminar and Hovind’s “college level course” Creation Science 103.