Dec 23, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christmas, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Jesus, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Secularism |
by William Trollinger It may be the Christmas season, but at Answers in Genesis (AiG) fighting the culture war is a 24/7/365 operation. See, for example, AiG’s gigantic Ark, which has been lit, not in Christmas colors, but in rainbow colors. As Ken Ham has explained,...
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...
Dec 1, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Flood Geology, Ken Ham, Science |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger In our last post, we talked about the strange manner in which much of the science that appears at the Creation Museum is used. Specifically, we talked about the fact that a lot of science appears to be on display at the...
Nov 29, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Flood Geology, Righting America, Science |
by Susan Trollinger In Righting America, we took seriously AiG’s claim, as articulated by Jason Lisle (PhD in astrophysics and director of the planetarium at the Creation Museum), that there is “plenty of science that confirms a biblical creation” and that “[m]uch of...
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....
Nov 17, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum |
by Susan Trollinger They call it the Creation Museum. It’s a museum. At least that is what Answers in Genesis (the Creation Museum’s parent organization) says it is. Although a number of scholars and commentators have contested that claim (and for good reason), we...
