Dec 8, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Literalism, Bodie Hodge, Creationism, Fundamentalism, History, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Answers in Genesis (AiG) is a “creationist juggernaut” that “produces a mind-boggling flood of print, media, and social media material” (Righting, 11). Remarkably, this deluge is generated by a very small cadre of creationists – one sees the same...
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...
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 25, 2016 | Bible, Biblical Interpretation, Christian Colleges, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Frederick W. Schmidt, Young Earth Creationism |
by Frederick Schmidt Frederick W. Schmidt is the Rueben P. Job Chair in Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL and blogs at Patheos.com From the vantage point of exegetical scholarship, one of the most troubling phrases in the...
