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 3, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, History, Ken Ham, Politics, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger When Donald Trump purchased a golf club on the Potomac River in 2009 he not only redesigned the club’s two courses. He also installed a flagpole above the river, with a plaque containing the Trump family crest and — as reported in the New...
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 24, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Note: This post is a continuation of last week’s discussion about judgment and evangelical colleges and universities. A specter is haunting evangelical higher education. Evangelical and fundamentalist schools are tuition-driven...
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...
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...
