Jul 17, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Creation Museum |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger In our July 9 blog post, we reported being surprised, really surprised, by how few visitors we saw on Ark Encounter’s opening day (July 7). Apparently, we weren’t the only ones who took notice. Plenty of images are now...
Jul 14, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Fundamentalism, Hell, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Righting America, Science |
by William Trollinger In the course of our work on Righting America at the Creation Museum, we regularly encountered arguments or appeals made by AiG in the museum and beyond that were illogical or implausible. Especially as we worked through the material in the...
Jul 12, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Genocide, Noah's Flood |
by William Trollinger As we posted a few days ago, in January the “population experts” at Answers in Genesis (AiG) suggested that there may have been nearly four billion people on the earth at the time of their necessary-for-young-earth-creationism global...
Jul 4, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Genocide, Noah's Flood, Righting America |
by Susan Trollinger As noted in our last post, Ark Encounter (which opens July 7) offers visitors a life-size opportunity to experience the story of eight people and 2000 animals snugly situated on a boat while – according to Answers in Genesis (AiG) – millions or...
Jun 14, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Culture War, Fundamentalism, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Last Thursday, we presented our paper, “Dinosaurs in Eden: Fundamentalism and the Plain People,” at a conference on the Amish (called “Continuity and Change”) at Elizabethtown College. You can find a much-reduced version of...
Jun 9, 2016 | Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Greetings from the 2016 Amish Studies Conference at Elizabethtown College! As we’re taking part in this week’s conference, Continuity and Change: 50 Years of Amish Society, we’d like to share an excerpt...
