Aug 3, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Evolution, Noah's Flood, Righting America, Science |
by Emma Bloomfield Today’s post comes from our colleague Emma Frances Bloomfield, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies the intersection of science, religion, and politics from a rhetorical perspective. She received her PhD...
Jun 5, 2017 | Age of the Earth, Amish, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evolution, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Noah's Flood, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger Last Wednesday, Sue presented our co-authored paper, “Sacred Rhetoric Turned into Culture War Rhetoric at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter,” at the Sacred Rhetorics conference, which was held at Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay,...
Apr 22, 2017 | Age of the Earth, Creation Science, Creationism, Flood Geology, History, Noah's Flood, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger It is not enough for young Earth creationists to create an alt-science in which: the universe is 6000 years old (light years refer to distance, not time); a year-long global flood created the Grand Canyon and all of our geological strata; and...
Apr 19, 2017 | Age of the Earth, Answers in Genesis, Creation Science, Creationism, Evolution, Flood Geology, History, Noah's Flood, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Hard to believe, but true. Young Earth creationism is even weirder than you thought. Most outsiders to young Earth creationism focus on the alt-science that asserts that the universe is 6000 years old, a global flood in 2348 BCE accounts for all...
Apr 7, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood |
by Susan Trollinger As readers of this blog know well, for Ken Ham and his comrades at AiG reading Genesis literally—as an accurate history of the origins of the universe (an “eyewitness account”, as they like to say)—is of paramount importance. To do otherwise is to...
Jan 13, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evolution, Flood Geology, Noah's Flood, Righting America, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger A foundational premise for AiG is that “We all deal with the same evidence (we all live on the same earth, have the same fossils, observe the same animals, etc.).” Building on that premise, AiG claims that “The difference lies in how we interpret...
