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 20, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Ken Ham, Randall Balmer, Righting America, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger In his forthcoming book, Evangelicalism in America, Randall Balmer tells the story of addressing a group of Christian college presidents. When the discussion turned to the question of what they feared most in their jobs, Balmer reasonably...
May 17, 2016 | Amish, Bible, Creation Museum, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Selling the Amish, Young Earth Creationism |
As we visited the Creation Museum seven times to write our book, we encountered a number of surprising sights. The now famous life-size diorama in the Main Hall that features two children happily playing at the edge of a pond while two small T-Rex stand nearby is just...
Apr 24, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Culture War, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Politics, Righting America, Science |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Many people who read our book might assume that the claims we make in it were clear to us from our first visit to the Creation Museum. As is the case with most worthwhile research projects, achieving such clarity from the...
Apr 14, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Creation Museum, Creationism, Observational Science, Righting America, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Because we think the Creation Museum matters, in Righting America we take the museum seriously. At the most basic level, this means taking seriously what the museum says about itself and what Answers in Genesis spokespersons...
