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...
Jun 6, 2016 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Observational Science, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Adam Laats RACM is very pleased to showcase our first guest post! Historian and author Adam Laats offers his insights on the history of mainstream science in creationist education and the difficulty this history poses for evangelical parents eager to provide their...
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...
