Jul 14, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Fundamentalism, Hell, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Righting America, Science |
by William Trollinger In the course of our work on Righting America at the Creation Museum, we regularly encountered arguments or appeals made by AiG in the museum and beyond that were illogical or implausible. Especially as we worked through the material in the...
Jun 27, 2016 | Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Rodney Kennedy, Young Earth Creationism |
by Rodney Kennedy Many Baptists — including Jimmy Carter — fled or were forced out of the Southern Baptist Convention when the fundamentalist forces secured control in the 1980s. As one of those whom the Southern Baptist fundamentalists could not abide,...
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...
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...
May 27, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Science |
by William Trollinger On March 8, 2016, Ken Ham published a to the AiG blog entitled “How Did Noah Build the Ark?” The exasperated Ham started his entry by noting that “Sometimes I just shake my head when I read some of the comments people make concerning...
