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Anti-Vaxxers and Answers in Genesis

Sep 15, 2020 | Abortion, Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, BioLogos, Christian Colleges, Christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, COVID-19, Creation Science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evolution, Francis Collins, Georgia Purdom, Heidi St. John, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Ken Ham, Labor Unions, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, QAnon, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Savannah Maddox, Science, The Devil's Music, Vaccination | 8 comments

by William Trollinger (with Susan Trollinger) “They are concerned about a virus that doesn’t kill very many people at all.” – Georgia Purdom, Answers in Genesis (AiG) “They are trying to manipulate me into getting a vaccine that I don’t believe in and don’t see any...

BioLogos, Answers in Genesis, and Two Wildly Different Evangelical Responses to the Pandemic

Sep 1, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, BioLogos, Calvin University, Camille Lewis, Christianity Today, COVID-19, Creation Science, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, Grace Community Church, John MacArthur, Ken Ham, Messiah College, Observational Science, Politics, QAnon, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Westmont College, Wheaton College | 0 comments

by William Trollinger In the Age of Trump it is very easy to imagine that white evangelicalism is a monolith. But when it comes to science, in general, and the pandemic, in particular, it turns out that it is not. In 2007 Francis Collins – who then was director of the...

Fundamentalists Create Fake War between Science and Religion

Jul 5, 2019 | Agnoticism, Areligious, Atheism, Certainty, Charles Taylor, Christian Right, Creationism, Culture War, David Ray Griffith, Dayton, Evangelicals, Francis Collins, Freeman Dyson, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Kenneth R. Miller, Politics, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy | 0 comments

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)...