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August 2020

August 05, 2020

Ken Ham and the Young Earth Creationist Fear of Uncertainty

Ham's response makes clear how much he and others at young earth creationist organizations like...

May 2020

May 13, 2020

Creationist Ken Ham Is Playing at Science

Ham inserts the term "observational evidence" with calculated intentionality. See, scientists already have a term...

May 11, 2020

Science, How Does It Work

But perhaps the problem is, in part, projection. Ham has decided that the creation stories...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

No, Sauropods Did NOT Once Walk on Their Front Legs

I recently came upon a Fox News article titled Giant 'thunder lizard' dinosaurs may have...

February 03, 2020

Young Earth Creationism: The Ultimate Fandom

There is at least one significant difference between young earth creationism and most fandoms. When...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

This Young Earth Creationist’s Take on a Flat Earth Conference Is Hilarious

This is basically a description of how every legitimate scientist who has ever debunked a...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

What Do Dairy Cows’ Y Chromosomes Have to Do with Young Earth Creationism? Plenty.

There are just two Y chromosomes found among all Holstein dairy cows. Ponder that for...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

Young Earth Creationists and the Flat Earth Conspiracy

Faulkner's post reads almost like an elaborate satire of the young earth creationist movement. But...

June 18, 2019

Ken Ham Declares Scientific Mystery “Solved”

Mizumoto thinks the fossil fish were flash-buried in a local event; Grande thinks the fish...

April 2019

April 04, 2019

Did God flood the world to kill angel/human hybrids?

The angels not only breed with human women and give rise to a race of...

April 02, 2019

Myth, History, Genesis, and Noah’s Ark

If conservative evangelicals approached this story as myth (as a story that may or may...

April 01, 2019

More Evidence that Young Earth Creationism Is Literally Unfalsifiable

This is what it looks like for something to be unfalsifiable, and this is why...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Answers in Genesis: Meteor Strikes May Have Triggered Noah’s Flood

Feel free to reread the Genesis Flood account. It tells the story of a massive...

March 06, 2019

Creationists: Adam Named 3,500 Animal Kinds in 3 Hours and 45 Minutes

The image I'm still trying to get out of my head is of Adam naming...

September 2018

September 10, 2018

The Evolution of Young Earth Creationist Flood Models

So, do creationists sometimes change their minds based on scientific evidence? The jury is out...

September 05, 2018

When Are Young Earth Creationists Like Star Wars Fans?

The underlying issue is this: Ham has predetermined his conclusion from the outset, and he...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

Scientists and Creationists Respond to Neanderthal/Denisovan Coupling

Creationists predetermine what happened---based on their interpretation of Genesis---and proceed to make science fit those...

August 15, 2018

On the Racism of Creationist Henry Morris

In the early 1960s, Henry Morris revolutionized the young earth creationist world with his seminal...

August 13, 2018

Creationist Calls Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding “Bestiality”

Until I came across these paragraphs from Paabo's book, I was most familiar with only...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Was Jonah’s Whale a Submarine? On the Bible and Science Fiction.

In some sense, each of these groups is peddling in science fiction---young earth creationists with...

July 12, 2018

Ken Ham Plays Fast and Loose with Ark Encounter Attendance Numbers

Ken Ham's Ark Encounter theme park just rounded out its second year of operation. In...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

“How Do I Stay Humble When I Know I’m Right?” Asks Young Earth Creationist

Friel's article is about how to remain humble when you know you're right about a...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

On Ken Ham and Dinosaurs Driving Cars

Growing up in a young earth creationist church, I remember imagining a pre-flood society with...

May 14, 2018

Dismantling Answers in Genesis’ Worldwide Flood Myth Claims

It is possible that there was a specific, large regional flood that spawned the Epic...

May 07, 2018

The Incredible Fragility of Young Earth Creationist Evangelicalism

Evangelicals need to think long and hard about what they are doing when they tie...

February 2018

February 06, 2018

Hey Creationists—Stop Arguing with a Strawman

Answers in Genesis recently posted a piece titled Human Ingenuity: Outsmarting Evolutionary Stories, by Avery Foley,...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Creationist: We’ll Only Be Impressed If You Find Transitional Fossils in the Precambrian

Hodge's argument appears to be that no transitional fossil found in the layers creationists claim...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Actually, Creationists Do Believe in Evolution

Answers in Genesis claims that Neanderthals and all other early hominids were descended from Noah...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

Is the Ark Encounter For-Profit or Non-Profit? It Depends on the Taxes.

As a teen, I listened to Ken Ham speak, read Answers magazine, and visited the...

July 19, 2017

The Creationist Giraffe

I was fascinated by this nerve when I first learned about it in college. This...