In this article, I share a dialogue with David MacMillan, a former young earth creationist who has since come to […]

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On Ham-Fisted Young Earth Creationism

September 21, 2019 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

Today, I started listening to a new debate on Unbelievable between young-earth creationist Ken Ham and old-earth creationist Jeff Zweerink. Before […]

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Bill Nye: Science Guy: A Review

May 6, 2018 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

Where I grew up in south-central British Columbia in the 1980s, we had four channels from Seattle on our limited […]

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Why Ken’s Ark really is a bad idea

March 6, 2014 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 8 Comments

The other day I posted a satirical article criticizing Ken Ham’s goal of building a life-size Noah’s ark. Mark Hamilton […]

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

March 1, 2014 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 26 Comments

Ken Ham, that Australian-accented l’enfant terrible of North American fundamentalist Protestant 6-day young earth creationist Christianity, has achieved his goal […]

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How fundamentalists undermine the authority of scripture

July 25, 2011 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 67 Comments

Christian fundamentalists like to trumpet the authority of scripture over all things. Unfortunately the way that fundamentalists read scripture tends […]