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The Religious Immaturity of Ark Encounter and American Evangelicalism

by William Trollinger Interior of the Ark’s living quarters, as invented by Answers in Genesis at Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In his wonderful book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, Richard Rohr talks about how we...

Blood in the Water: Ken Ham v. Evangelical Colleges

by William Trollinger  Screenshot of Ken Ham’s attack on Biola University’s William Craig Lane, via AnswersInGenesis.org. As I noted in my last blog post, Ken Ham has launched a full-scale attack on evangelical colleges, claiming that “biblical...

With the Texas Voucher Bill, taxpayer money will go to private schools that teach anti-science and Young-Earth Creationism

by Mara Richards Bim Mara Richards Bim serves as a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global (BNG) and as program director at Faith Commons. She is a spiritual director and a recent master of divinity degree graduate from Perkins School of Theology at SMU. She also...

Creationist Astronomer Calculates Age of the Flood from Utah Arch Collapse

by Dan Phelps and Brandon Nuttall Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Panda’s Thumb. We have re-published it here with the authors’ permission. Arches National Park. Image via TripSavvy.com. This article, “How Long Have Arches...

At Ark Encounter, It’s All About Hell 

by William Trollinger Placard from inside the Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In my last post, I highlighted the ways in which the Noah family featured at the Answers in Genesis (AiG) tourist site, Ark Encounter, bears remarkable similarities to...

The Zone of Interest, Auschwitz, and Ark Encounter

by William Trollinger Still photo from of The Zone of Interest (2023), directed by Jonathan Glazer. Image via bookandfilmglobe.com. The Zone of Interest will be on my mind for a long, long time. This powerfully disturbing film about the Holocaust (perhaps the best I...