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...
Oct 28, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Interpretation, Creation Museum, Creationism, Patrick Thomas |
by Patrick Thomas In this post, Patrick Thomas examines the process of re-configuring the word of God into a multimedia experience for Creation Museum visitors. Each time I have left the Creation Museum, I have felt dizzy and a bit overwhelmed. Part of the reason is...
Oct 3, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Donald Trump, Hell, Jesus, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Righting America |
by William Trollinger If we had given Righting America an epitaph it would probably 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 climb out,...
