Jul 17, 2023 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Argumentation, Conservative Evangelicals, Creationism, Donald Trump, Frans van Eemeren, Jennifer R. Mercieca, Jerry Bergman, Ken Ham, McCarthyism, Rob Grootendorst, Rodney Kennedy |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
Jul 11, 2023 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Adolf Hitler, American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Literalism, Charles Darwin, Christian Colleges, Civil Rights Movement, College of the Ozarks, Creation Museum, Darwin, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Darwin-to-Vietnam trope, Darwin's Plantation, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, History and Politics, Holocaust, Jerry Bergman, Ken Ham, Martin Luther, Messiah College, Old Earth Creationism, Racism, Religion and History, Slavery, Tucker Carlson, Vietnam War, White Evangelical Racism, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Image of Ken Ham & A. Charles Ware’s 2007 book Darwin’s Plantation. Dear Jerry (if I may): Oh my. It appears that my discussion of your article on Darwin and the Vietnam War has struck a nerve. So it is that you have mustered your...
Jan 24, 2022 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, COVID-19, Creation Science, Daniel Phelps, Historical Science, Huckster, Ken Ham, Mark Looy, Science, The Cynthiana Democrat, The Grant County News, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown |
by Daniel Phelps Daniel Phelps is a retired environmental geologist for the commonwealth of Kentucky. He has also taught part-time in Kentucky’s Community College system. His work to expose the pseudoscience behind Ham’s Ark Encounter was featured in the award-winning...
Jul 9, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, COVID-19, David McMillan, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Righting America, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Photo copyright: Susan Trollinger (2018) In an article celebrating the five-year anniversary of Ark Encounter’s opening, Ken Ham continued to issue misleading (now there’s an understatement!) comments regarding...
Jan 5, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, American History, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Civil War, Confederate Statues, David Blight, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Georgia Purdom, History, Jim Crow, Lost Cause Discourse, Reconstruction, Rhetoric, Righting America, Secession, Slavery, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger Statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA. Photo by Salwan Georges of The Washington Post (2020) The other day, I was reading David Blight’s fine book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, in preparation for a project that I am going...
Oct 12, 2020 | Ad Hominem Attacks, AiG Finances, Allosaurus, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Clayton Brown, Creation Museum, Creation Research Society, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Dan Phelps, David McMillan, Evolution, Flood Geology, Ken Ham, Monica Long Ross, Righting America, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tax Breaks, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Image for “We Believe in Dinosaurs” documentary. If we were filmmakers, We Believe in Dinosaurs (directed by Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown) is the film we would have wanted to make about the making of Ken...