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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...

Another Ken Ham Attack Goes Awry, or, The Evangelical Con Job that is Creationism

Dec 27, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Charles Taylor, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Libertarianism, Postmodernism, Radical Creationism, Reification, Religion and Science, Rodney Kennedy, Young Earth Creationism | 16 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...

What Pandemic? The Amish and Amish Country Tourists Dispense with Masks

Oct 11, 2021 | Amish, Amish Country Theater, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Evangelicals, Evolution, Janet Kellogg Ray, Masking, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Vaccination, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Promotional photo for the Amish Country Theater (2021) Every other year my wife Sue teaches a course here at the University of Dayton (UD) entitled “The Arguments and Visual Rhetoric of Two Religious Traditions.” Not surprisingly, the two...

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...

Jesus and 20 Billion Others Died to Save (a Few of) Us

Jun 2, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Flood Geology, Genetics, Genocide, Historical Science, Mark Etter, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Wickedness, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Image from The Bible Panorama, or The Holy Scripture in Picture and Story (1891). Image via Wikimedia Commons. “Off the rails” doesn’t begin to describe the state of fundamentalist apologetics. Take, for example, young Earth creationism. Its...