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Ken Ham

How to Respond to Ken Ham in About a Minute

December 10, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: hermeneutics, Ken Ham, young earth creationism

Rethinking Origins: The Evolution of a Young Earth Creationist

December 4, 2019 by Randal

In this article, I share a dialogue with David MacMillan, a former young earth creationist who has since come to a very different opinion. MacMillan currently lives in Washington DC with his wife and their children, where he works as a paralegal while studying for his J.D. at Columbus School of Law. He is featured […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Answers in Genesis, creationism, David MacMillan, evolution, fundamentalism, interview, Ken Ham, Neo-Darwinism, science

On Ham-Fisted Young Earth Creationism

September 21, 2019 by Randal

Today, I started listening to a new debate on Unbelievable between young-earth creationist Ken Ham and old-earth creationist Jeff Zweerink. Before listening, I tweeted that I was not sure it was still worthwhile to debate the young-earth creationist position. I should have qualified that a bit: if you are going to debate young-earth creationism, at least […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: fundamentalism, indoctrination, Ken Ham, Unbelievable, young earth creationism

Bill Nye: Science Guy: A Review

May 6, 2018 by Randal

Where I grew up in south-central British Columbia in the 1980s, we had four channels from Seattle on our limited dial, including Kiro 7. As a result, my early Sunday evenings were spent watching Almost Live, a half-hour local Seattle show with aspirations to be a Pacific Northwest version of Saturday Night Live. One of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bill Nye, Bill Nye: Science Guy, fundamentalism, Ken Ham, review, science, scientism

Why Ken’s Ark really is a bad idea

March 6, 2014 by Randal

The other day I posted a satirical article criticizing Ken Ham’s goal of building a life-size Noah’s ark. Mark Hamilton then offered a good comment in response: “You know, regardless of what you think about the Ark theme park, it always drives me nuts when people talk about how money could be better spent on […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Ken Ham, kitsch, Noah's ark, theme park

A defense of Ken Ham’s fake Noah’s Ark

March 1, 2014 by Randal

Ken Ham, that Australian-accented l’enfant terrible of North American fundamentalist Protestant 6-day young earth creationist Christianity, has achieved his goal of raising the first $14 million to begin construction on an ambitious life-size replica of Noah’s Ark for the people of Kentucky and indeed the citizens of the world. (Whew! That’s quite the opening sentence!) […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Noah's ark, satire

How fundamentalists undermine the authority of scripture

July 25, 2011 by Randal

Christian fundamentalists like to trumpet the authority of scripture over all things. Unfortunately the way that fundamentalists read scripture tends to undermine that authority. The key problem is that fundamentalists widely subscribe to a hermeneutical (that is interpretive) principle that the text should be interpreted literally when possible. This is how George Marsden, perhaps the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, fundamentalism, Genesis, George Marsden, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, John Walvoord, Ken Ham, literal interpretation

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