Feb 8, 2024 | Anti-Environmentalism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Communication Failures, COVID-19, Creation Science, Discovery Center for Creation and Earth History, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Evolution, Historical Science, Misinformation, Museums, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Science, Science, Science v. Story, Scientific Communication, Scientific Creationism, Stephen O'Leary, Vaccination, Visual Rhetoric |
by Emma Frances Bloomfield Today’s post comes from our colleague Emma Frances Bloomfield, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies the intersection of science, religion, and politics from a rhetorical...
Oct 11, 2021 | Amish, Amish Country Theater, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Evangelicals, Evolution, Janet Kellogg Ray, Masking, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Vaccination, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Promotional photo for the Amish Country Theater (2021) Every other year my wife Sue teaches a course here at the University of Dayton (UD) entitled “The Arguments and Visual Rhetoric of Two Religious Traditions.” Not surprisingly, the two...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
Sep 15, 2020 | Abortion, Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, BioLogos, Christian Colleges, Christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, COVID-19, Creation Science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evolution, Francis Collins, Georgia Purdom, Heidi St. John, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Ken Ham, Labor Unions, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, QAnon, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Savannah Maddox, Science, The Devil's Music, Vaccination |
by William Trollinger (with Susan Trollinger) “They are concerned about a virus that doesn’t kill very many people at all.” – Georgia Purdom, Answers in Genesis (AiG) “They are trying to manipulate me into getting a vaccine that I don’t believe in and don’t see any...