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The Freedom Trucks are the Creation Museum of American History

by Karen Elizabeth Park Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Ex Voto, Karen’s Substack. We are grateful for her permission to re-post the article here. Karen Elizabeth Park is a writer and historian who examines religion as a lived and public...

The Religious Immaturity of Ark Encounter and American Evangelicalism

by William Trollinger Interior of the Ark’s living quarters, as invented by Answers in Genesis at Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In his wonderful book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, Richard Rohr talks about how we...

QAnon, the Epstein files, and Ken Ham

by William Trollinger Answers in Genesis’ representation of a “secular” worldview. Ken Ham’s silence is deafening. And so revealing.  For those who don’t know, QAnon (quoting from Britannica) is a conspiracy theory originating in forum posts on...

Measles at the Ark

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. Phelps is founder and president of the Kentucky Paleontological Society. His work to expose...

Kirk Cameron, The Eternal Barbecue, and Fundamentalist Proof-Texting

By William Trollinger Image via https://creation-thewrittentruth.blogspot.com. The Baptist News Global headline says it all: “Heads spin as Kirk Cameron gives up eternal conscious torment.” As Rick Pidcock observes, Cameron has for many years “been one of the poster...

1 in 4 Americans Reject Evolution, A Century After the Scopes Monkey Trial Spotlighted the Clash between Science and Religion

by William Trollinger and Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to the editors to republish it here. The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law...