Jul 12, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Ken Ham, Williamstown |
William Trollinger One of the most remarkable features of the Answers in Genesis (AiG) tourist site, Ark Encounter, is that, for a place that loudly and boldly proclaims itself as committed to the notion of biblical inerrancy, they make great use of what they call...
Jun 7, 2018 | Ark Encounter, Evangelicals, KKK, Linda Gordon |
by William Trollinger In the final chapter of her wonderful new book, The Second Coming of the KKK, Linda Gordon provides a very helpful discussion of the ways in which the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s fit and did not fit the label “fascist.” In this regard, she noted...
May 17, 2018 | Ark Encounter, Creation Science, Culture War, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, Mary McLoughlin, Paternalism, University of Dayton |
by Mary McLoughlin Today’s post is from Mary McLoughlin, a sophomore at the University of Dayton studying English and Human Rights. She is particularly interested in the ethics of storytelling and how language and literature is used to mobilize the voices of...
Apr 27, 2018 | Age of the Earth, Ark Encounter, Austria, Creation Museum, Creationism, Kiersten Remster, University of Dayton, Young Earth Creationism |
by Kiersten Remster Kiersten Remster is a 2017 University of Dayton graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in art history. Following graduation from UD, Kiersten won the prestigious Austrian Federal Ministry of Education Teaching Assistant Award, which is administered by...
Mar 22, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Creation Science, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Evolution, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Museums, Observational Science, Science |
by Emma Bloomfield Today’s post comes from our colleague Emma Frances Bloomfield, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies the intersection of science, religion, and politics from a rhetorical perspective. She received her PhD from...
Mar 19, 2018 | Ark Encounter, Creation Science, University of Dayton |
by Susan Trollinger I (Sue) am teaching a class this term on the argumentation and visual rhetorics of two non-Catholic religious traditions. One of those traditions is fundamentalism, particularly, young Earth creationist fundamentalism. Last week, I took my class to...
