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Ken Ham the Huckster and Inventor of a New Arithmetic, or, The Trials and Travails of Trying to Have a Letter Critical of Ark Encounter Published in the Local Newspaper

Jan 24, 2022 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, COVID-19, Creation Science, Daniel Phelps, Historical Science, Huckster, Ken Ham, Mark Looy, Science, The Cynthiana Democrat, The Grant County News, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown | 1 comment

by Daniel Phelps Daniel Phelps is a retired environmental geologist for the commonwealth of Kentucky. He has also taught part-time in Kentucky’s Community College system. His work to expose the pseudoscience behind Ham’s Ark Encounter was featured in the award-winning...

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...