Monday, November 1, 2010

What people need to do (according to Ken Ham)

I normally don't give a shit what Ken Ham says, but this is just too good (or rather bad) to pass by. From Ken Ham's latest blog post:

Reporters in the secular media seem to do all they can to brainwash people with atheistic evolutionary ideas. This is just another good reason why more and more people need to do the following:


Hmm. I wonder what people need to do? I assume since AIG constantly emphasizes the need to be literalistic biblicists he'll say that people need to read the Bible more. Right? Wrong.

1.Read the articles on www.answersingenesis.org each day.
2.Subscribe to Answers magazine (our next issue even has a special multiple-article section about astronomy).
3.Go to AiG’s online bookstore for resources that tell the truth about origins.
4.Visit the Creation Museum (we’re near Cincinnati, Ohio) and walk through the true history of the world.
5.Go to an AiG conference in your area—visit the AiG conference website for more information.
6.Visit the Creation Museum’s Christmas Town event.


I'm confused. No mention of reading the Bible? And why do all but one of the recommendations involve handing over the greenbacks to AIG?

5 comments:

  1. Regarding your question: "And why do all but one of the recommendations involve handing over the greenbacks to AIG?" You are wrong. Two additional things in the list are free: our Christmas celebration, and almost all of our seminars (250 a year) have no registration fee. Mark, at the Creation Museum

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  2. Mark, thanks for the clarification. However, I seem to recall pictures (from Ken's blog) of people lined up at the resource tables following the conferences. I assume those resources were free? I also assume all the resources that will be available at the Christmas celebration will be given away for free. If these assumptions are wrong, my point still stands.

    Also, Ken's use of fear to cause people to turn to his "ministry" and not the Bible, which he claims to base his ministry on, was the main point of the post.

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  3. Well, since Ken Ham will tell you how to interpret your Bible anyway, there is no need to read that.

    Remember, the Bible is far from being user friendly and very hard to understand. Someone has to explain it to you. Why not Ken Ham?

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  4. "Remember, the Bible is far from being user friendly and very hard to understand. Someone has to explain it to you. Why not Ken Ham?"

    Hey, Sabio! I agree that the Bible is not exactly the easiest compilation of literature to understand. However, I disagree with Ken Ham's methodology of interpretation, specifically the projection of a modernistic worldview on a text written in the ANE. Even if I were unaware of the scientific evidence for an old earth and common descent, I still would not believe that we should be looking in an ANE text for answers to scientific questions.

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  5. I agree that Ken Ham's methodology is faulty. But I think if you recognize the ANE perspective and the Iron Age perspective of the Hebrew scriptures, there will be precious little left that the sincere believer can value.

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