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June 2017

June 26, 2017

Answers in Genesis Says Humans Did Not Come From Africa—And It Gets Weird

Yes, you read that right. The claim here is that Africans have more diverse mitochondrial...

June 22, 2017

Young Earth Creationism Is Evolving

Jeanson does not object to Venema's statement there are transitional fossils, and that the gaps...

June 06, 2017

Evangelicals Who Link Evolution and Racism Forget Christianity Was Used to Defend Slavery and Segregation

Here is the central problem for evangelicals: If racism stemmed from evolution, as they claim,...

May 2017

May 01, 2017

On Presuppositional Creationism

I grew up in an evangelical home. My early training was largely in line with...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Building Reality on Ancient Cosmology

Rather than accept that the Ancient Israelites had a different cosmology than we do today,...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Ken Ham Has a Serious Lack of Imagination

The utter lack of imagination here is staggering---and somehow disappointing. What is the point of...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Answers in Genesis Mistakes Evolution for a Religion (Again)

The idea that secular moral systems are borrowed from a biblical worldview is utter nonsense....

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Why Answers in Genesis Doesn’t Get Genre

I no longer identify as a Christian and I don't much stake in arguments between...

February 17, 2016

How Answers in Genesis Shattered My Faith in Creationism

I can't speak for Donna, whose testimony is quite above---her journey is her own. Still,...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Young Earth Creationism’s Important Scientific Veneer

Several months ago, my mother send me some books for the children. Most of them...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Young Earth Creationists: Neanderthals Were Human

What with the news about homo naledi, a new hominin species, it's probably time to...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

A Matter of Patriarchy

In God's Not Dead, college freshman Josh Wheaton stands up against his philosophy professor's attempts...

October 2014

October 19, 2014

Ken Ham Says Gender Must Be Taught, But Is Not a Social Construct

Ham says the handout urges teachers to "destroy any distinction between male and female." In...

July 2014

July 09, 2014

That Time I Took Sean to an Answers in Genesis Conference

When I was in college I began dating (we called it "courting") a young man...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Young Earth Creationism Isn’t Science

Seven years ago, I left young earth creationism. Three years ago, I blogged about the...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Dear Ken Ham: You Can’t Have It Both Ways

Ken Ham wants to have his cake and eat it too. Growing up, I was...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Is Creationism Racist?

I grew up reading copious amounts of literature from Answers in Genesis and attending conferences...

January 22, 2013

Why You Need to Read Jonathan Dudley’s Broken Words

Jonathan Dudley sent me a copy of his Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and...

December 2012

December 06, 2012

Creationists Embrace “Truth in Education” in Indiana

Many of evangelicals' attempts to insert creationism into the classroom over the past half decade...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Worthwhile Reads: The Bible, Inerrancy, and Interpretation

In case you've missed it, there has been some excellent discussion of the Bible, inerrancy,...

August 17, 2012

A Taxonomy of Creationists

There was a post on the Friendly Atheist a while back which got me thinking...

July 2012

July 02, 2012

I Believed That Dinosaurs Still Existed…

The Friendly Atheist is shocked that some creationists use Nessie as proof of creationism. Just...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Answers in Genesis wants to have its cake and eat it too

I noticed a few short articles in the July-September 2012 issue of Answers in Genesis...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

Rebutting Ken Ham’s Response

So you remember my Why I Am An Atheist post from last week? Apparently it...

April 2012

April 13, 2012

Creationism: Fitting Science into the Bible

Growing up, I honestly thought that creationism was a scientific theory. I thought that if...

April 12, 2012

Creationism Evolves

Thee was a time when creationists simply argued that Neanderthals and all the other "supposed"...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Searching for the Baby in the Bathwater

This is a slightly edited repost of a post I wrote when I first started...

February 12, 2012

Teaching “Both Sides”?

I was homeschooled from kindergarten through high school, and like many homeschooled students, I studied...

January 2012

January 12, 2012

How Creationism Drove Me out of the Church

To be more specific, creationism led me to a crisis of faith that ultimately, through...

September 2011

September 23, 2011

Evidentialism v. Presuppositionalism

I have noticed a worrying trend among some Christians. It is the turn away from...