Jul 29, 2025 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Isis Journal, Jenna Scaramanga, K.L. Marshall, Michael Reiss, QAnon, Scientific Creationism, Scopes Trial, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger We are pleased to announce that our article, “From Creationism to QAnon: Answers in Genesis and the Culture Wars,” has been published in the June issue of Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society. Below is an excerpt...
Jul 15, 2025 | ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Sacred Literature, American Scientific Affiliation, Andrew Dickson White, Answers in Genesis, Arthur Compton, Asa Gray, Biblical Literalism, Charles Darwin, Conflict Thesis, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Dayton, Edward B. Davis, Eugenics, Evolution, Francis Collins, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Harry Rimmer, Human Genome Project, John William Draper, Michael Pupin, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, Religion and Science, Robert Millikan, Samuel Christian Schmucker, Science, Scopes Trial, Shailer Matthews, Social Evolution, Social Gospel, Society of Catholic Scientists, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by Edward B. Davis Edward B. (“Ted”) Davis, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University, writes about Christianity and science in the Scientific Revolution and modern America. His new book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in...
Jul 8, 2025 | Armageddon, Caryle Marney, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Dispensational Premillennialism, Dome of the Rock, Donald Trump, End Times, Ezekiel, Iran, Israel, Josephus, MAGA, Mike Huckabee, Paul Boyer, Rapture Ideology, Red Heifer, Rodney Kennedy, Six-Day War, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, Will Campbell, Zealots |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
May 14, 2025 | Answers in Genesis, Areligious, Artistic License, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Christian Right Victimization, Culture War, Inerrancy, Ken Ham, Religion and Politics, Statement of Faith |
by William Trollinger Placard image via Slideserve. Last Friday Ken Ham — sadly and emotionally — tweeted his concern about evangelical leaders whose inconsistent approach to the Bible is leading folks to abandon the faith: It’s our contention that...
Apr 8, 2025 | Abeka Books, Accelerated Christian Education, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Science, Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, Christina Littlefield, Climate Change, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Ed Larson, Evolution, George McCready Price, Glenn Branch, Historical Science, Homeschooling, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Margaret Mitchell, Old Earth Creationism, Proof-Texting, Righting America, Scopes Trial, Six-Day Creation, Society of Biblical Literature, Statement of Faith, Stephen Weldon, The Genesis Flood, Vaccination, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Teacher John Scopes (left), and crowds outside the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Image via The Vintage News. Here we are, at the centenary of the Scopes Trial. And last week was very much a Scopes week. On Tuesday...
Mar 10, 2025 | Anabaptists, Andre Chouraqui, Baptist News Global, Book of Common Prayer, Culture War, Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit, David Blight, Democracy, Donald Trump, Doxology, Dualism, Enlightenment, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evolution, Francis Collins, Frederick Douglass, Freeman Dyson, George Lakoff, Harold Bloom, History, Jane Kenyon, Kenneth R. Miller, Lewis Thomas, MAGA, Mary Oliver, Metaphor, Michel Foucault, Mona Van Duyn, Ordinary Time, Otis Moss, Jr., Parrhesia, Poetry, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Walter Brueggemann, Walter Rauschenbusch, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
