Feb 6, 2023 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Abortion, Apologia Church, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Dan Phelps, Holocaust, Jeff Durbin, Ken Ham, Mark Looy, Noah's Flood, Roe v. Wade |
by William Trollinger Photograph of the inside of an execution chamber. Image via Reason.com On January 25 the Creation Museum hosted a political event designed to fire up support for anti-abortion legislation in Kentucky. The event featured Ken Ham of Answers in...
Jan 30, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Ark Encounter Feasibility Report, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, Kentucky Paleontological Society, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger The “Rainbow Entrance” at Ark Encounter. Image via BruceGerenscer.net Last week a reader sent a snarky note in response to a 2017 post I wrote about the failure of the newly-opened Ark Encounter to live up to its...
Jan 16, 2023 | Anti-Environmentalism, Arlie Russel Hochschild, Capitalism, Christian Environmental Stewardship, Christian Right, Climate Change, Conservationism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Earth Day, Francis Schaeffer, Ken Ham, National Association of Evangelicals, Neall Pogue, Religion and Politics, Religion and the Environment, Robert Dugan, Strangers in Their Own Land, The Lost Environmentalists, The Nature of the Religious Right |
by William Trollinger Image of Neall W. Pogue’s book cover for The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement (Cornell University Press, 2022) Neall Pogue is an assistant professor of instruction...
Dec 1, 2022 | Adam and Eve, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Cosmos, Creatio Ex Nihilo, Creation Museum, Creationism, Demiurge, Donald Trump, Evolution, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Gnosticism, History of Science, Illuminati, Israel's God, Ken Ham, Kenoma, Mythology, Noah's Flood, Pleroma, Rodney Kennedy, Roman Empire, Science, Six-Day Creation, Word&Way, Young Earth Creationism |
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...
Nov 21, 2022 | AIG Security, Answers in Genesis, Canine Units, Christian Right, Christian Right Victimization, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Jules Carr-Chellman, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Persecution, Police, Secularism, Tax Breaks, Young Earth Creationism |
Jules Carr-Chellman Jules Carr-Chellman is an undergraduate student of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. Raised in Northern Idaho, he is now an honors student with research interests in psychoanalytic critical theory, social philosophy, and existentialism. As a...
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...
