As for Hovind's education, well, he's educated, having done a lot of homework and just maybe not as programmed into some questionable mainline interpretations of science observations as all those who've been through the mainline assemblyline of conventional science all the way from grade school through doctorate.
Yes, he writes and reasons as if he were free of even the intellectual shackles of grammar school. With just a little less schooling, he coulda been a genius.
Perhaps you could quote some passage that illustrates the accuracies of this prodigious autodidact? Just saying it is so is what he does, and that doesn't make it so.
Kookiness is not next to Godliness. I'd be wary of cozying up to anyone whom even the folks at Answers in Genesis have turned their backs on, Brother Buz.