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A Belated Father’s Day Tribute, or Dad v. The Young Earth Creationists

by William Trollinger William Trollinger, Sr.’s Geologic Timetable William Trollinger, Sr. was a Denver-based petroleum geologist. He died in 2002. While I wish he were still around, I confess that I am glad he did not have to see the openings of the Creation...

Science and Religion: The Casualties of an Unnecessary War

by Frederick W. Schmidt “Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636” by VLN Physics 12 licensed under CC BY 2.0  The Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. holds the Rueben P. Job Chair in Spiritual Formation at...

Why Conservatives Aren’t Wrong to Fear Evolution

by Sarah Olson Sarah Olson is an undergraduate student majoring in microbiology at Oregon State University, and a member of the National Association of Science Writers. She works at a bookstore curating their science and math sections and reviews popular science books...

Creationists Deny Global Warming (or, Deny that Global Warming Matters); The Bible Tells Them So

by William Trollinger “station fire – residents evacuate briggs terrace” by Anthony Citrano is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 It sounds as if it comes straight from the Exxon public relations machine, except for the bizarre biblical twist. According to the young Earth...

Creationists Deny Global Warming (or, Deny that Global Warming Matters): Part 3

by William Trollinger “station fire – residents evacuate briggs terrace” by Anthony Citrano is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 As Ken Ham proclaims again and again, the crisis facing Western civilization is the  “gender revolution” : The West has...

Is the Creation Museum Changing Its Story?

by Patrick Thomas Last week I had the great fortune of visiting the Creation Museum for the third time.  As I’m currently on sabbatical, I was eager to visit the museum now that I finally have the time to explore some new writing projects, one of which stems from a...