Jun 20, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Culture War, Gay Marriage, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics |
by William Trollinger The Ark Encounter is scheduled to open on July 7 near Williamstown, Kentucky. The public relations campaign is in full swing, with billboards (including one here in Dayton) and press releases and interviews with journalists and – as reported in...
Jun 17, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Jimmy Carter, Ken Ham, Politics |
by William Trollinger On June 10 Answers in Genesis (AiG) scored a public relations coup when former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn toured the Ark Encounter construction site. As reported in the AiG article celebrating the visit, the Carters were there...
Jun 14, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Culture War, Fundamentalism, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Last Thursday, we presented our paper, “Dinosaurs in Eden: Fundamentalism and the Plain People,” at a conference on the Amish (called “Continuity and Change”) at Elizabethtown College. You can find a much-reduced version of...
Jun 9, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Greetings from the 2016 Amish Studies Conference at Elizabethtown College! As we’re taking part in this week’s conference, Continuity and Change: 50 Years of Amish Society, we’d like to share an excerpt...
May 31, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Fundamentalism, Politics, Righting America |
by William Trollinger If we had given Righting America an epitaph it probably would have been this stanza from Mary Gauthier’s “Mercy Now”: “My church and my country could use a little mercy now. As they sink into a poisoned pit it’s going to take forever to...
May 27, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Science |
by William Trollinger On March 8, 2016, Ken Ham published a to the AiG blog entitled “How Did Noah Build the Ark?” The exasperated Ham started his entry by noting that “Sometimes I just shake my head when I read some of the comments people make concerning...
