Apr 11, 2017 | Age of the Earth, Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Science, Creationism, Evolution, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger In our last post, we mentioned in passing that Ken Ham and AiG like to refer to Genesis as an “eye witness account” to the creation. Importantly, that is their trump card on evolution. Readers of this blog will remember that a key rhetorical move...
Mar 14, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Righting America, Science |
by Susan Trollinger In a March 9, 2017 blog post, Ken Ham critiqued the organizers of the March for Science (which will be held on April 22 in Washington DC and elsewhere) for their apparent exclusion of creation scientists from their march. Ham admits that they “are...
Sep 28, 2016 | Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creationism, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Patrick Thomas, Righting America, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Patrick Thomas Patrick Thomas reflects upon the contributions of our colleagues from the natural sciences from our recent series, Putting Observational Science to the Test. In his book The Lie, Ken Ham delineates the differences between “observational” and...
Sep 22, 2016 | Creationism, Evolution, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Mark Masthay, Observational Science, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Mark Masthay Dr. Mark Masthay brings our series on observational science to a close with a personal reflection on the significance of wonder and speculation in both his scientific work and his faith. Much of the content in this blog entry is from a talk by a...
Sep 16, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Creationism, Evolution, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Mark Masthay, Observational Science, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Mark Masthay For his third post, Dr. Mark Masthay uses the historical example of the “Phlogiston Hypothesis” to discuss how scientists negotiate the meaning of scientific discoveries. In doing so, he provides a very generous proposition for unifying...
Sep 13, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Mark Masthay, Observational Science, Science |
by Mark Masthay Continuing from his earlier post examining observational science and certitude, this week Dr. Mark Masthay clarifies the epistemic differences between observational science and his own chemistry lab for achieving scientific certainty. Because I do not...
