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Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Ken Ham Attacks “Secular Media” for Its Lies

by William Trollinger Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (right) with Ken Ham (left). Image via Answers in Genesis. Ken Ham has to be thrilled.  Mike Johnson – young Earth creationist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion extremist, and election denier – is...

Dear Williamstown: Sorry for Misleading You About Ark Encounter – My Bad! 

by William Trollinger Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY. Image via JoeMyGod. It has been exactly ten years since Williamstown, Kentucky, underwrote $62.5m worth of bonds that made possible the building of Ark Encounter. This anniversary seems the perfect opportunity...

Answers in Genesis finances, more lame responses from Taylor University administrators

by William Trollinger Screenshot of the 990 Form from 2020 for Answers in Genesis, via ProPublica Below are two links you may very well find interesting, if you are interested in how Answers in Genesis (AiG) conducts itself financially, and how Taylor University...

Not Even Close to What Was Projected: A Few Facts about Ark Encounter Attendance

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...

Security Personnel at the Creation Museum: Rhetoric of the Persecuted Christian Right

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...

A New Museum: Competition in the Land of Young Earth Creationism

by William Trollinger  Screenshot from David Rives Ministries. Last Friday a reporter visited my office to interview me about the KKK in 1920s Ohio. He came here  having just visited Ark Encounter, and so I naturally asked him for his impression of Ken Ham’s...