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 […]
Noah's ark
A defense of Ken Ham’s fake Noah’s Ark
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!) […]
Are catalysmic natural disasters appropriate for the children’s choir?
The Bible is not for kids. At least much of it isn’t. The eroticism of Song of Songs is not fitting content for bed time devotions. Nor are the scenes of murder, rape and dismemberment in Judges or the shocking descriptions of starvation and cannibalism that one finds in Lamentations. Fortunately there are a range of children’s Bibles […]
