Answers in Genesis’ Weird Take on Polygamy and the Bible
Answers in Genesis recently published an article titled Legalized Polygamy in America? It’s Coming, by Ken Ham. I opened the article primarily because I was curious how they deal with the fact that the...
View ArticleOn Answers in Genesis’ Portrayal of Noah’s Son’s Wives
Who did Noah's sons' children marry? Presumably they married their cousins, and not their siblings (or at least, not only their siblings). If this is the case---if Noah's sons children married their...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis’ Climate Change Petition Hypocrisy
Answers in Genesis is very very concerned about what you think of climate change. At root is a pretty simple issue: the Bible does not foretell a global climate catastrophe. Instead, it foretells a...
View ArticleNo, Sauropods Did NOT Once Walk on Their Front Legs
I recently came upon a Fox News article titled Giant ‘thunder lizard’ dinosaurs may have walked on their front feet only. No, really! Gigantic sauropods, some of the largest creatures to ever roam the...
View ArticleOn Answers in Genesis’ Woefully Misplaced Priorities
But no! Answers in Genesis isn't concerned about ensuring that world policies relative to population are not coercive. They're concerned about abortions. They do not link this concern to policies like...
View ArticleKen Ham Declares Scientific Mystery “Solved”
Mizumoto thinks the fossil fish were flash-buried in a local event; Grande thinks the fish were arranged by the current after they were dead. This isn't a scientific mystery. It's a scientific...
View ArticleNoah did everything just as God commanded him
You'd think that, when constructing an amusement park based around the idea of a global flood, you'd take things like land erosion seriously during construction and the design of the grounds. But then,...
View ArticleKen 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 an article on the Answers in Genesis website, Ken Ham is upbeat, announcing that one million visitors came to the...
View ArticleWhy Answers in Genesis’ Apologetics Falls Flat
As a child growing up in an evangelical home, I took an apologetics class taught by a friend’s father who was also a seminary instructor. I also read books of apologetics (I absolutely adored my...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis: Be Careful, Wayward Adult Children Are Contagious
Right when things were going so well Hummel had to jump in with the "don't fund their sin" and "don't soften God's chastening hand" and "don't rescue them out of the pigsty." That pigsty mention is...
View ArticleActually, Creationists Do Believe in Evolution
Answers in Genesis claims that Neanderthals and all other early hominids were descended from Noah and his family, and that the differences between the groups can be explained by a few hundred years of...
View ArticleIs 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 Creation Museum. I was a huge fan of Answers in Genesis, a young earth creationist organization that shaped my...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis: Islam Leaves Muslims “Hopeless”
The article is titled "Islam's View of Sin and Salvation" and the promotional reads "Christians should love, not fear, Muslims. If you look under the surface, you'll see just how hopeless their...
View ArticleAnswers 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 DNA than non-Africans because they have seen twice as many generations as non-Africans. Yes, the claim really...
View ArticleKen Ham Has a Serious Lack of Imagination
The utter lack of imagination here is staggering---and somehow disappointing. What is the point of engaging in a level of biblical literalism that conflicts with all of our modern understandings of the...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis Mistakes Evolution for a Religion (Again)
Can we talk about a recent Answers in Genesis article about the problem with pain? The piece was written by Avery Foley and published earlier this month. It read as follows:One of the most common...
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Ken Ham: Noah Probably Had More Sophisticated Tools than We Do Today
Do you remember the post I wrote a few months ago about young earth creationism and Noah’s ark? The point I wanted to make was that young earth creationists like Ken Ham view images that depict the ark...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis: God Is Making People Gay Because of Abortion
I just read an Answers in Genesis article whose argument is so simple and elegant I can’t believe I hadn’t heard it before. Namely, the article explains why it suddenly seems like there are gay people...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis: Are we more moral than God?
This week a read an article in Answers in Genesis’ Answers Magazine asserting that if you think God’s cruel for sending people to eternal torture in hell, well, you just don’t truly understand God’s...
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I Believed That Dinosaurs Still Existed…
The Friendly Atheist is shocked that some creationists use Nessie as proof of creationism.Just when you think you’ve heard it all.I want everyone reading this to take a moment to compose yourself....
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