creationism
Before he was House speaker, Mike Johnson represented a creationist museum in court. Here’s what that episode reveals about his politics
By William Trollinger — December 12, 2023
(The Conversation) — A scholar of American evangelicalism explains House Speaker Mike Johnson’s connections with Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum.
Kent Hovind, controversial creationist preacher known as ‘Dr. Dino,’ arrested in domestic assault case
By Bob Smietana — August 5, 2021
(RNS) — Hovind, who claims that dinosaurs and humans once lived together, was released from prison in 2015 after serving time for tax fraud. He told his YouTube followers he is being falsely accused.
After a rescinded invitation, Ken Ham talks about God at an Oklahoma university
By Bobby Ross Jr. — March 6, 2018
(RNS) — Its president cited the historic commitment of the public university to the critical and civil examination of ideas, no matter how controversial.
Faith and the cosmos: An astrophysicist fields the big questions
By Lauren Markoe — July 13, 2017
(RNS) 'I have my own personal rule, which is I never, ever tell people what to believe. And I never, ever tell people they’re wrong,' says Paul M. Sutter, an astrophysicist who fields questions from the public — some of them religious — on the cosmos.
Creationism support is at a new low. The reason should give us hope.
By Tom Krattenmaker — July 13, 2017
More people are refusing the all-or-nothing choice between faith and science and opting instead for a third way: acceptance of the overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution while seeing a divine role in the process.
Ken Ham disputes reports the Ark Encounter is sinking
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 19, 2017
(RNS) The Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Ky., hasn't seen bad attendance, Ham blogged on Answers in Genesis' website, just bad press.
The gifts of science are worth celebrating
By Richard Mouw — April 18, 2017
(RNS) Large numbers of us, including many fine scientists, accept the gifts of scientific investigation with deep gratitude.
Evangelicals in Trump’s Cabinet: Choice of Pruitt alarms scientists, environmentalists
By Kimberly Winston — December 8, 2016
(RNS) Could Trump's Christian Cabinet picks have a chilling effect on the teaching of science in public schools?
Science and the Bible can help ease racial tensions
By guest — October 5, 2016
(RNS) It’s a fact of science that all humans are the same basic color, just different shades, while God's word declares that we are one race, descendants of Adam and Eve.
Bill Nye visits Noah’s Ark theme park
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 11, 2016
(RNS) And it was like their earlier debate 'all over again but more intense at times,' according to Ken Ham, president and CEO of Answers in Genesis, the Christian apologetics ministry behind the park.
A flood of guests expected as Noah’s Ark theme park opens in Kentucky
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 7, 2016
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (RNS) The Ark Encounter's aim is to show that the biblical flood account is historic and the Bible is true in regard to history and science, says Answers in Genesis President and CEO Ken Ham.
Noah’s Ark park may ease religious requirements for workers
By Reuters — February 22, 2016
Job seekers at the Kentucky theme park, which gets state tax incentives, may be asked to sign a different Christian faith statement than one requiring belief in creationism.
Noah’s Ark theme park in Kentucky to open July 2016
By Reuters — November 13, 2015
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Currently under construction in northern Kentucky, Ark Encounter will include a full-sized wooden replica of the ship from the Biblical story of Noah and the great flood.
Outspoken theologian ousted from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
By Lilly Fowler — July 21, 2015
Matthew Becker had raised questions about the denomination’s stance against the ordination of women, as well as its teaching of creationism, or the literal reading of the story of creation in the book of Genesis.
Pope Francis: ‘Evolution … is not inconsistent with the notion of creation’
By Josephine McKenna — October 27, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) “God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life,” Pope Francis said.
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