Oct 31, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Abortion, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Critical Race Theory, Culture War, Facebook, Fundamentalism, Hell, Intersectionality, Judgment, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, Noah's Flood, Parler, Proof-Texting, Righting America, Social Justice, Social Media, Statement of Faith, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ken Ham’s Facebook page, with a quote from the Gospel of Matthew and linking to a Fox News story. Image via Facebook. One of the distinctive ways in which fundamentalists make use of the Bible is proof-texting, i.e., pulling...
May 6, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Artistic License, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Evangelicals, Flood Geology, Hell, Historical Science, History, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Righting America, Science, The Conversation, Young Earth Creationism |
By Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger We at RightingAmerica are pleased to share below our article on Ark Encounter, which appears today over at The Conversation. Many thanks to the editors at The Conversation for their permission to re=post our work here! A...
Jul 31, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Charles Jackson, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Eric Hovind, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, Genesis, Genesis: Paradise Lost, Georgia Purdom, Gish Gallop, Hell, Historical Science, Institute for Creation Science, Judgment, Ken Ham, Kent Hovind, Observational Science, Ray Comfort, Science, Secularism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Genesis: Paradise Lost Movie. Image copyright Answers in Genesis (2019) In our recent article at The Conversation, “At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years...
Oct 19, 2017 | Christian Right, Fundamentalism, Hell, intolerance, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America we note that “in the twenty-first century, the study of American fundamentalism has really come into its own, with a surfeit of outstanding works, many of which pay close attention to economics and...
Oct 3, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Donald Trump, Hell, Jesus, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Righting America |
by William Trollinger If we had given Righting America an epitaph it would probably 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 climb out,...
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...
