Rudy is very puzzled that in a city with as vibrant a church community as Pensacola – a church community that  Kent Hovind helped make prominent with his world wide video distribution, speaking tours and Dinosaur Advertureland – there is no support for Kent Hovind.  Rudy discusses the phenomenon in this youtube titled “The local churches think Kent Hovind is a tax cheat.”

Jonathan Schwartz was puzzled by the same question and came up with an answer by getting Steven Gray to turn the camera on himself.  Steven Gray, who is 25, grew up in Pensacola.  He was home schooled till the age of 17.  The home schooling was supplemented by science and math instruction from Kent Hovind.  He describes a warm and humorous teacher who was quite inspiring.  Steven is active in his church and still holds a young earth creation view, but along with most of the rest of the evangelical community in Pensacola is not warming up to Kent Hovind’s anti-government viewpoint.  Apparently the evangelical community in Pensacola might sympathize with Hovind’s plight and hope that he is released, but they also find him to be an embarrassment.

A similar perspective might also account for Kent’s fairly tepid support from the broader “creation science” community”.