How Answers in Genesis Shattered My Faith in Creationism

I realized with growing horror that much of the material there was either flat-out lying or skillfully misleading people.

Ken Ham’s Colossal Failure: Samantha Field’s Story

I’d turned to AiG in a literal moment of desperation because they were my intellectual stronghold…What I received from them was the opposite of everything I’d trusted them to be.

The Racism In Our Science Books

“In spite of what Answers in Genesis maintains, racism both long predates the theory of evolution and has frequently sprung from the Bible and from the creation account itself.”

The Skeleton in Doug Phillips’s Closet Is Now in the Creation Museum. Literally.

How Ebenezer the Allosaurus brought together a sexual abuser, a white supremacy sympathizer, and a creationist superstar.

11 Homeschool Celebrities Explained With GIFs

A gif-tastic look at 11 current and former homeschool celebrities.

Ham on Nye

“During the Q&A session though, Bill Nye said one thing, one groundbreaking thing, and I don’t know if he even realized it. He said, ‘I don’t know.'”

Ken Ham — The Evolution of a Bully: Jeri Lofland’s Thoughts

“Ken Ham was banned from speaking at a homeschool convention in Cincinnati after making ‘mean-spirited’ remarks about another speaker, a Bible scholar and theologian who approaches the Old Testament very differently than Ham does. AiG also used its deep pockets and legal staff to bully a smaller Christian ministry with a similar name, threatening them with charges of trademark infringement.”

Incorporating Thinkers: A Lesson in Debate Theory and Wolves

“If you acknowledge there are problems, and you actually care about fixing those problems, then by all means let’s work together! We can agree to disagree on many things — this is evident from the fact that the HA community consists of Millennials, Gen X’ers, Boomers, current homeschoolers, former homeschoolers, students, parents, conservatives, moderates, liberals, libertarians, Marxists, Christians, atheists, Buddhists, Protestants, Catholics, Universalists, and so forth.”

How I Learned To Stop Being Afraid and Love Other Religions, Part One: If Satan Made Xanax, And Other Worldview Myths

“To say that other religions can be beautiful or valuable is not an exercise in relativism. But granting this beauty or value will likely suffer the fate of being interpreted as such by many of today’s ‘worldview’ champions. The old guard of American Christianity and Christian homeschooling is terrified of anything that sounds ‘postmodern.’ Postmodernism is like intellectual dub step to these people.”

Rewriting History — The History of America Mega-Conference: Part Four, Kevin Swanson Is Tired Of Losing

“Kevin Swanson, host of Generations Radio, has a long history of eccentric comments documented by Right Wing Watch, and he was no different in person. I’m not sure what troubled me more: Swanson’s acidic tone, or the hyperbolic content of his talk. His seething hatred for The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and other 19th century writers was both irrational and unsettling.”