Over the last ten years, there has been an alarming rise in…
July 2, 2024
Here is a partial list of renowned Evangelical pastors, scholars, and apologists who have been criticized or denounced by polemicist and theme park entrepreneur Ken Ham and his associates at “Answers in Genesis” (AiG). All sources are from the AiG website. This list does not take into account Ham’s oratory or print publications. To the best of my knowledge, all have been far too mature and gracious to respond in kind.
Sometimes, that lone “voice in the wilderness” turns out to be a wolf. Spaniels intuitively understand this.
Denis Alexander, Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge.
“incompetence at best or duplicitousness at worst.” source
John Lennox, noted Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist
“his teaching on Genesis and his compromise…undermines the authority of the Word of God….A major contributing factor to the demise of the church in our Western World.” source
Wayne Grudem, Theologian, general editor of ESV Study Bible
“Seriously mistaken…erroneous views that are damaging the church’s commitment to the authority of Scripture…Biblically inconsistent.” source
Tim Keller, pastor emeritus of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NYC
“Thus, once a Christian disconnects the spiritual truth the Bible teaches from the historical events on which it is based, then that Christian must accept that he no longer acknowledges its authority, irrespective what he may say to the contrary. ” source
Gleason Archer – professor of Old Testament and Semitic studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“he allowed himself to be intimidated by ‘science’ so didn’t believe what he admitted was the most obvious interpretation of Genesis 1” source
Greg Koukl – founder and president of Stand To Reason
“teaching compromise within the church and undermining the authority of the Bible.” – source
J. Warner Wallace – detective, apologist, Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Biola University
“It’s sad that he is a speaker at an apologetics conference. I would say the apologetics he is teaching is really a defense of a secular anti-biblical belief rather than of Scripture.” – source
If you go to the sources you will notice gracious comments about these individuals. No theologian likely has 100% accuracy in their theology, and back in the 18th century, early 19th century, not much was actually known about the world compared to today. Creation Ministry leaders are trying to give understanding TODAY , now that there is so much more information, not only about the physical world, but about science in the Bible, so people can have confidence in God’s word from beginning to end. The more scientists, including archaeologists and those who study what the nature of intelligence information looks like. the more the truth of the Bible is confirmed. And it can be noted that you are calling Ken Ham a wolf, rather then addressing any of his scientific claims.
Thank you for visiting. Every year, more and more evidence accumulates for an ancient earth and universe – though we don’t need it because this was settled a long time ago.
Only a handful of fundamentalist Christian scientists embrace the young-earth paradigm, and they do it because they place their personal interpretation of Scripture above the consistent testimony of God’s created order (i.e., science).
Ken Ham and his cohorts actually undermine Scriptural authority, by adamantly insisting that it teaches nonsense.
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M Moore
If you go to the sources you will notice gracious comments about these individuals. No theologian likely has 100% accuracy in their theology, and back in the 18th century, early 19th century, not much was actually known about the world compared to today. Creation Ministry leaders are trying to give understanding TODAY , now that there is so much more information, not only about the physical world, but about science in the Bible, so people can have confidence in God’s word from beginning to end. The more scientists, including archaeologists and those who study what the nature of intelligence information looks like. the more the truth of the Bible is confirmed. And it can be noted that you are calling Ken Ham a wolf, rather then addressing any of his scientific claims.
Steven Willing MD, MBA
Thank you for visiting. Every year, more and more evidence accumulates for an ancient earth and universe – though we don’t need it because this was settled a long time ago.
Only a handful of fundamentalist Christian scientists embrace the young-earth paradigm, and they do it because they place their personal interpretation of Scripture above the consistent testimony of God’s created order (i.e., science).
Ken Ham and his cohorts actually undermine Scriptural authority, by adamantly insisting that it teaches nonsense.