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I noticed the miltant YECs over at AIG have stepped up their unchristian attacks on other Christians. I wonder if their drop in funding has anything to do with it. Or maybe their methods and actions are finally catching up to them. And read Poor Ken Ham: Back in March, I noted that creationism was a profitable business ... at least for Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis who had a salary of $121,764 for 2004. Now Jim Lippard is reporting that Ham has taken a pay-cut and only made $60,000 in 2005. Poor, poor Ken ... must be rough...

More information has just come out about the split between the Kentucky-based Answers in Genesis and the Australia-based Creation Ministries International. (UPDATED for clarification: CMI is composed of organizations from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada which were all formerly united with the Kentucky group under the Answers in Genesis name. The Australian group was the Creation Science Foundation prior to the association of the groups under the Answers in Genesis name.) CMI has published a number of documents on its web site about the split. These documents, which I'll describe below, make the case that the U.S....

WAYNE, N.J. — Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their faces rapt. With dinosaur puppets and silly cartoons, he was training them to reject much of geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies.

I wonder why Ken Ham's followers continue to let him lie about other Christians? When will they wake up and take him to task? Old-Earth Creationism:A Heretical Belief?By Greg MooreKen Ham is an ardent young-earth creationist. As president of Answers in Genesis, he generates a steady stream of articles critiquing the old-earth view. Although I disagree with most of his assertions, I respect his right to express them. However, Ham’s article, “The god of an old earth,”1 crosses the line of amicable debate. By declaring “the god of an old earth cannot be the God of the Bible” and “the...

Militant young-earther Ken Ham debates Old Testament scholar Walt Kaiser and astronomer Hugh Ross on interpreting Genesis. Ken Ham and his propagandists have often accused old-earthers of not believing in the literal bible or believing in evolution (both lies). Here Ham shows his complete lack of bible knowledge against Walt Kaiser, one of the most respected OT scholars and defenders of the accuracy of the OT. Kind of hard to call him an "apostate" or "compromiser." As usual, Ham shows he knows next to nothing about science as compared to Hugh Ross. First in a series of planned broadcasts.

Creationism, Christianity, and Common Sense September 26, 2005 by Alan Burkhart Here we go again. According to a Washington Post article from 09/25/05, a group called “Answers in Genesis – USA” is building a museum in Cincinnati dedicated to the proposition that the universe was created exactly as stated in the Bible. In other words, God created the universe in six days, and He did it only about six thousand years ago. The group’s president, Kenneth Ham, is quoted in the Post as saying, "This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God." Science...

For years Christianity has suffered what has been called the “scandal of the evangelical mind.” This has included the abandonment of the biblical principles of “testing everything” and being prepared to give an answer (apologetics). As a result, any new fad, book or movement packaged as “Christian” is often accepted without reservation. One example of this is young-earth creationism promoted by Ken Ham, who is often featured in the Pittsburgh Christian. Young-earthism is based on the false assumption that millions of years equal evolution. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Evolution doesn’t work in an old universe and old...

Ken Ham has spent 11 years working on a museum that poses the big question - when and how did life begin? Ham hopes to soon offer an answer to that question in his still-unfinished Creation Museum in northern Kentucky. The $25 million monument to creationism offers Ham's view that God created the world in six, 24-hour days on a planet just 6,000 years old. The largest museum of its kind in the world, it hopes to draw 600,000 people from the Midwest and beyond in its first year. Ham, 53, isn't bothered that his literal interpretation of the Bible...

With its towering dinosaurs and a model of the Grand Canyon, America's newest tourist attraction might look like the ideal destination for fans of the film Jurassic Park. The new multi-million-dollar Museum of Creation, which will open this spring in Kentucky, will, however, be aimed not at film buffs, but at the growing ranks of fundamentalist Christians in the United States. It aims to promote the view that man was created in his present shape by God, as the Bible states, rather than by a Darwinian process of evolution, as scientists insist. The centrepiece of the museum is a series...