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Six Years Later, A Creationist Theme Park Is Not Paying Off For Kentucky

Apr 14, 2022 | Americans United, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Dan Phelps, Hemant Mehta, Ken Ham, Rob Boston, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown | 3 comments

by Rob Boston, Senior Adviser for Americans United and Editor, Church & State Exterior of Ark Encounter. Image by Susan L. Trollinger (March 15, 2022). Editor’s Note: Today we share an article that appeared earlier this week at Americans United for...

Ark Encounter: Not Sinking, but Not Close to Living Up to Projections

Apr 7, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown | 10 comments

by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Image by Susan L. Trollinger (March 15, 2022). A few weeks ago – during our spring break at the University of Dayton – we visited Ark Encounter. It was our ninth or tenth visit since the Ark opened in July, 2016. In...

Ken Ham and the Government Subsidy that Makes Ark Encounter Possible

Jul 9, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, COVID-19, David McMillan, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Righting America, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Photo copyright: Susan Trollinger (2018) In an article celebrating the five-year anniversary of Ark Encounter’s opening, Ken Ham continued to issue misleading (now there’s an understatement!) comments regarding...

“Social Justice is Anti-Biblical”: Ken Ham as Promoter of Biblical Illiteracy

May 18, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Illiteracy, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Critical Race Theory, Dan Phelps, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Howard Thurman, Intersectionality, Jesus, John Lewis, Judgment, Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, Ken Ham, Luke Timothy Johnson, Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Righting America, Sexual Orientation, Social Justice, Statement of Faith, Tax Breaks, White Evangelicals, Williamstown | 4 comments

by William Trollinger Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Image via abc7Chicago.com. Every time I think that things can’t get worse at Answers in Genesis (AiG), they do. The ever-intrepid Dan Phelps has noticed that on March 05, 2021 AiG replaced their original...

We Believe in Dinosaurs: A Must-See Documentary on Ark Encounter

Oct 12, 2020 | Ad Hominem Attacks, AiG Finances, Allosaurus, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Clayton Brown, Creation Museum, Creation Research Society, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Dan Phelps, David McMillan, Evolution, Flood Geology, Ken Ham, Monica Long Ross, Righting America, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tax Breaks, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Young Earth Creationism | 1 comment

by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Image for “We Believe in Dinosaurs” documentary. If we were filmmakers, We Believe in Dinosaurs (directed by Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown) is the film we would have wanted to make about the making of Ken...