Feb 20, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Donald Trump, Politics, Righting America, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger From the beginning, the dream was an exercise in the worst sort of wishful thinking. Over the past fifty-odd years, the Christian Right has been the most reliable constituency within the Republican Party. But over these same five decades,...
Feb 16, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelicals, Lee Dixon, Righting America, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Lee Dixon Today’s post features our colleague, Dr. Lee Dixon, Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Dayton. Lee reports on his recent visit to the Creation Museum, raising questions about the museum’s messages...
Dec 15, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Bodie Hodge, Creationism, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Racial Justice, Racism, Slavery, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger As we noted in our last post, Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis (AiG) expend a good deal of energy – in the Creation Museum and in their writings – making the case that racist hatred and intolerance is unbiblical. This would seem commendable,...
Dec 8, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Literalism, Bodie Hodge, Creationism, Fundamentalism, History, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Answers in Genesis (AiG) is a “creationist juggernaut” that “produces a mind-boggling flood of print, media, and social media material” (Righting, 11). Remarkably, this deluge is generated by a very small cadre of creationists – one sees the same...
Dec 5, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Ken Ham, Patrick Thomas, Righting America |
by Patrick Thomas In this post, Patrick Thomas critiques the “plain sense” of AiG’s literal reading of Genesis on display at the Creation Museum. To accept a literalist reading of Genesis means that you must also take a number of suppositions as...
Nov 21, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum |
by Susan Trollinger If the object of the Creation Museum is strange, the object of the Ark Encounter is even stranger. At the Creation Museum, a central idea seems to have been to attempt to re-create certain scenes that Genesis says occurred in the Garden of Eden....
