Nov 29, 2017 | Creation Science, Creationism, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Feminism, Observational Science, Patrick Thomas, Science |
by Patrick Thomas Today’s post comes from our colleague Patrick Thomas. Last year, Patrick organized a series of posts on observational and historical science, authored by our colleagues in the University of Dayton natural sciences departments. Below, Patrick...
Jan 28, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Creationism, Donald Trump, Ken Ham, Patrick Thomas, Politics, Righting America |
by Patrick Thomas Last weekend, an estimated 4.7 million people convened around the globe for the Women’s March, a grassroots movement aimed at protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump and the numerous anti-woman policies and actions that comprised his US...
Dec 20, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Creationism, Culture War, Evolution, Gay Marriage, intolerance, Ken Ham, Patrick Thomas |
by Patrick Thomas In today’s post, Patrick Thomas examines Ken Ham’s use of “intolerance” as a tactic to frame non-creationists as anti-Christian secularists. Last week, we examined the ways Ken Ham and AiG are re-writing history, whitewashing...
Dec 5, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creationism, Ken Ham, Patrick Thomas, Righting America |
by Patrick Thomas In this post, Patrick Thomas critiques the “plain sense” of AiG’s literal reading of Genesis on display at the Creation Museum. To accept a literalist reading of Genesis means that you must also take a number of suppositions as...
Oct 28, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Interpretation, Creation Museum, Creationism, Patrick Thomas |
by Patrick Thomas In this post, Patrick Thomas examines the process of re-configuring the word of God into a multimedia experience for Creation Museum visitors. Each time I have left the Creation Museum, I have felt dizzy and a bit overwhelmed. Part of the reason is...
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...
