I thought I’d share two poems I wrote quite awhile ago. The first one is 25 years old–I wrote it on the Easter my sister and I were stranded in Colby, Kansas, with a broken down truck that was in the shop over the Easter weekend. The second one is 20 years old–I wrote it…
What better way to conclude my analysis of Ken Ham’s Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church than with a seventh post? On this seventh post, I will rest from my critique of Ken Ham. The final chapter of Ham’s book is entitled, “Implications of Accepting Evolutionary Ideas.” In…
Here in my second-to-last installment in my blog series looking at Ken Ham’s book, Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, I am going to take a look at chapters 9 and 10…Enjoy. Chapter 9: The Necessity of a Historical Adam If you have been keeping up with this…
In this next post of my book analysis of Ken Ham’s book, Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, I am going to take a look at chapter 7 (“Genesis and Evolutionary Ideas”) and chapter 8 (“Was There a Global Flood?”). Chapter 7: Pot Shots at Christians who know…
By AD 67, the emperor Nero had chosen the old, proven general Vespasian to go in and subdue Judea. Vespasian had a proven war record from his successes in Germania and Britannia. And once chosen by Nero, Vespasian then called for his son Titus to bring the 5th and 10th legions from Alexandria assist him….
In my last post look at his book Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, I looked at Ken Ham’s attempt to explain proper biblical exegesis and noted that although Ken Ham correctly explains some of the key principles when it comes to proper exegesis, when the rubber hits…
Chapters 4-5 in Ken Ham’s book, Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, is right up my alley, for in them, Ken Ham tries to make the exegetical case for interpreting Genesis 1-11 as literal history. As someone who teaches Biblical Studies for a living, it is fascinating to…
Josephus’ Early Challenges in Galilee—and the Emergence of John of Gischala Upon arriving in Galilee, Josephus saw that his work was cut out for him. He was tasked with mobilizing the populace, raising an army, securing the region and building up fortifications throughout the area. And he had to do this in a region that…
In this next post in my series in which I analyze Ken Ham’s book, Six Days, The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, I am going to take a look at the next two chapters in the book. Now for Chapter Two… Having condemned a number of Christian academics who don’t…
It was four years ago that I first really began to pay attention to Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. It began with writing a number of posts on the Nye/Ham Debate, and it kicked into high gear when I was informed by an over-zealous YECist headmaster that I was no longer a “good fit”…