Nov 7, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Feasibility Report, Creation Museum, David McMillan, Ken Ham, Mike Johnson, Secularism, Tax Breaks, We Believe in Dinosaurs, White Evangelicals, Williamstown, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (right) with Ken Ham (left). Image via Answers in Genesis. Ken Ham has to be thrilled. Mike Johnson – young Earth creationist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion extremist, and election denier – is...
Oct 25, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Classical Music, Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Economic Inequality, Intersectionality, Jemar Tisby, Ken Ham, Redlining, Social Justice, Systemic Racism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger An acorn woodpecker in an affluent section of Los Angeles. 2023: Genaro Molina, LATimes. Ken Ham’s obsession with denying structural racism has gone completely off the rails. Take, for example, his bizarre response to a Los Angeles...
Sep 26, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Ark Encounter Feasibility Report, Book Banning, Capitalism, Climate Skeptics, Critical Race Theory, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Identity, Marxism, Secularism, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY. Image via JoeMyGod. It has been exactly ten years since Williamstown, Kentucky, underwrote $62.5m worth of bonds that made possible the building of Ark Encounter. This anniversary seems the perfect opportunity...
Aug 15, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Antonio Guterres, Ark Encounter, Avery Foley, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Carbon Emissions, Christian Right, Cornwall Alliance, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Dispensational Premillennialism, Economics of Climate Change, Environmental Science, Fossil Fuels, Heat Waves, Jessica Jaworski, Lahaina, Maui Fires, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Proof-Texting, Religion and Science, The Nation, Tom Engelhardt, Wildfires |
by William Trollinger Aftermath of the fires in Lahaina, Hawaii. Image via mauinews.com. In his recent article, “Right-Wing Extremism is Going to Boil Us Alive,” Tom Engelhardt observes that It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking...
Aug 1, 2023 | Adam Laats, American History, Answers in Genesis, Carl Kaestle, Darwin, Ellen G. White, Galileo Galilei, History, History of Science, In Memoriam, Ken Ham, Law of Stratigraphic Succession, Loma Linda University, Methodological Naturalism, Millerism, Old Earth Creationism, Paul Boyer, Religion and History, Righting America, Ronald Numbers, Science Without God?, Scientific Creationism, Six-Day Creation, The Genesis Flood, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Ronald Numbers (1942-2023). Image via YouTube. On June 02 Ron Numbers sent Sue and myself a goodbye email, letting us know that “I am now receiving hospice care, waiting for ‘The End.’” Then, last Monday (July 24), he passed. One of those...
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...
