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Ark Encounter: Not Sinking, but Not Close to Living Up to Projections

Apr 7, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown | 10 comments

by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Image by Susan L. Trollinger (March 15, 2022). A few weeks ago – during our spring break at the University of Dayton – we visited Ark Encounter. It was our ninth or tenth visit since the Ark opened in July, 2016. In...

Ken Ham the Huckster and Inventor of a New Arithmetic, or, The Trials and Travails of Trying to Have a Letter Critical of Ark Encounter Published in the Local Newspaper

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 | 1 comment

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...

Ken Ham and the Government Subsidy that Makes Ark Encounter Possible

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 | 0 comments

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...

We Believe in Dinosaurs: A Must-See Documentary on Ark Encounter

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 | 1 comment

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...

The Murder of George Floyd, and Ken Ham’s Very Loud Silence

Jun 2, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Complementarian Theology, Creation Museum, Darwin, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Racism, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy | 3 comments

by William Trollinger George Floyd, who died May 25th, 2020 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for at least seven minutes. Photo from Facebook via Wikimedia Commons. So, when does silence equal racism? As everyone knows by now, on the evening of May 25, in...