Jul 21, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Culture War, Jesus, Ken Ham, Religious Rhetorics, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger “Power of the Savior” display at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY. Photo copyright: Susan Trollinger (2017). One of the great things about academic research is that you never know in advance what you are going to encounter. You...
Jun 5, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, George Floyd, Jesus, Ken Ham, Police Brutality, Racism, Sin, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Photo Credit: Allie Caren, Washington Post (2020) In late 2007, we were asked by Mike Castle, then pastor at Cross Creek Church here in Dayton, to give a presentation on Evolution Sunday (which in 2008 was February 10)....
Jun 2, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Complementarian Theology, Creation Museum, Darwin, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Racism, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger George Floyd, who died May 25th, 2020 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for at least seven minutes. Photo from Facebook via Wikimedia Commons. So, when does silence equal racism? As everyone knows by now, on the evening of May 25, in...
Apr 17, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Culture War, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood |
by William Trollinger Ken Ham. Image credit: John Foxe, 2012, via Wikimedia Commons. As Rod Kennedy put it in the last post, the widespread adoption of young Earth creationism by American evangelicals is directly connected to the evangelical willingness to disregard...
Apr 10, 2020 | Biblical Interpretation, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, David Lindberg, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelicals, Evolution, George Marsden, History, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ken Ham, Liberty University, Religion and Science, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Scopes Trial, Stay-at-Home order, The River Church |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Dec 16, 2019 | Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, God, Judgment, Museums |
by William Trollinger Carl Ludwig Beutler: Torments of Hell, Circa 1669, Yale University Art Gallery In the first half of his brilliant and disturbing book, A Gentler God: Breaking free of the Almighty in the company of the human Jesus, Doug Frank draws upon...
