Righting America

A forum for scholarly conversation about Christianity, culture, and politics in the US
Tax Breaks | Righting America

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

Nov 21, 2022 | AIG Security, Answers in Genesis, Canine Units, Christian Right, Christian Right Victimization, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Jules Carr-Chellman, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Persecution, Police, Secularism, Tax Breaks, Young Earth Creationism | 5 comments

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

Sep 19, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation in the 21st Century, Creation Museum, Creation Superstore, Dan Phelps, David Rives Ministries, Evolution, Freed-Hardeman University, Genesis Science Minute, Genesis Science Network, Secrets Beyond the Rim, Tax Breaks, The Creation Club, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

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...

Daniel Phelps, Strimple Award Winner: Fighting the Good Fight on Behalf of Science, Reason, and the Separation of Church and State v. Young Earth Creationism

Sep 2, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Climate Skeptics, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Daniel Phelps, Journal of Paleontology, Ken Ham, Kentuckians for Science Education, Kentucky Paleontological Society, Natural History, Next Generation Science Standards, Paleontology Society, Science, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Young Earth Creationism | 4 comments

Strimple Award Winner Daniel Phelps. Image via the Journal of Paleontology. Daniel Phelps is a retired environmental geologist for the commonwealth of Kentucky. He has also taught part-time in Kentucky’s Community College system. Phelps is founder and president of the...

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 | 14 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...