Apologist Ken Ham's response to atheists, skeptics who 'scoff' at Noah's Ark
By: Billy Hallowell
The flood was a real global event as it was described. It was an earth changing event from the near perfect world of creation to the present less stable version it is now. All the earth quake and volcanic activity, the axis it’s on now and the polar ice as well as all the mixed up fossil layers are due to this event. It was real and did happen, despite the naysaying of the atheists among us.
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Apologist Ken Ham, CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis, is no stranger to making headlines as he embraces innovative and uncommon ways of spreading the Christian faith.
But he attracted an entirely new level of international attention when he opened the Ark Encounter in 2016, a lifesize replica of Noah’s Ark, located in Williamstown, Kentucky.
Ham, author of the new book, Will They Stand: Parenting Kids to Face the Giants , recently shared with the “Edifi With Billy Hallowell” podcast the path that led him to build the 510-foot long structure, and his quest to help people better understand scripture.
“Noah’s flood is a very important event … and yet it’s so scoffed at by atheists,” he said, noting that a persistent question always plagued him when he worked as a teacher back in the 1970s.
Listen to Ham discuss this question, his response — and his plea for parents to properly equip their kids to face the giants of the day:
Ham said students would often try to poke holes in the Noah narrative, questioning how all of the animals could have possibly fit inside the ark. They argued that, due to the seemingly insurmountable task, the worldwide flood account simply couldn’t be a real-life story.
This persistent question and argument later left Ham pondering what he could do to better bring the biblical account to life — and that’s where the roots of the Ark Encounter were set.
“What if we built Noah’s Ark to scale using the measurements in the Bible?” he pondered.
That quest culminated in the creation of the massive ark replica, an attraction that is one-and-a-half times the length of a football field. With three decks of exhibits inside the Ark Encounter, Ham believes he’s giving visitors the chance to see the biblical epic in a much clearer light.
“It makes the Bible come alive in a way that people can’t experience elsewhere,” Ham said. “And it answers these skeptical questions.”
The apologist believes the Ark Encounter underscores the great flood as an “integral event in history” and as a reminder of God’s love.
“Noah’s Ark, itself, is a picture of Jesus, as Noah and his family went through one door to be saved,” Ham said. “So we need to go through a door to be saved.”
Listen to Ham discuss the ark as well as his new book urging parents to better equip children for an increasingly chaotic culture here.
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Ken Hamm is a ham and a professional grifter.
Biblical account? From a cadre of men using ignorance and fear to maintain power.
I'll assume extremist political bunk wasn't creating enough divisiveness so we're switching back extremist religious bunk.
noah's ark - follow the wacky adventures of an incestuous xtian family crowded on a houseboat with their own private zoo during the monsoon season. season 1, episode 1 - the dinosaurs are hungry again.
Just the first 3 points use the Bible to "prove" the Bible.
Circular argument.
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That's not what a religion does. You either take it on faith or you don't.
When someone tries to make a religious argument, that argument is subject to the same rules of logic as any other argument. Circular religious arguments are fallacious as are circular non-religious arguments.
It is common to argue (in not so few words) that the Bible is divine because the Bible says so.
Of course circular arguments are one of the things religion "does". "It's true because we say it's true." That doesn't mean it's actually true.
Do you hold that the ark story is true ... that there was a global flood that destroyed all life except that preserved by the ark and that all creatures are descendants of the ark inhabitants?
Do you also hold that dinosaurs were on the ark?
Do you hold that the Earth is < 10,000 years old?
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew the Minnow would be lost.
@3.1.9 is simply the pasting of another's words. I ignore those comments and I suspect most others do as well.
Don't be a hater. Let's see you spend six weeks on a boat and keep it in your pants with no internet porn.
... are wasted. Pasting the equivalent of a seed in a comment — especially when you provide zero summary to indicate the point you wish to convey — encourages people to ignore your comment. So you wind up wasting your time.
The counter seed is for others. Your participation is not important; in fact, it is probably best that you continue to play your little boycott game.
Circular argument plus ad hominem.
Weak.
No. No there is not! Just the opposite actually.
If religion makes an affirmative claim, especially as fact (as it often does), it subjects itself to logical scrutiny. Faith doesn't make something factual or true. Neither does belief equal fact.
That sounds like my version of Hell.
So much for honest debate or discourse. You merely demonstrate an extreme bias.
The dinosaurs were extinct 65 million years before human beings existed. So there were no dinosaurs around to even be denied entrance to the ark. But second, what is your biblical basis for thinking God excluded dinosaurs? This one sentence makes me think that you purposely write the most outrageous, stupid comments you can devise. How you find that valuable is a mystery.
Human beings have been around for 200,000 years. While there is no single Adam and Eve human beings from which we are all descended, if there were, they would have existed 200,000 years ago.
Also, good grief man, there is physical evidence of civilized human beings dating back more than 10,000 years. Jericho has evidence of existing as a civilization 11,000 years ago. There are artifacts of human beings (well prior to civilization) dating back over 165,000 years.
You have nothing to complain about my treatment of you on my articles. Your claim of mistreatment is just a bullshit excuse.
There have not been high priests in about 2,000 years after the destruction of the second temple, so what are you talking about?
Of course not. Why would we?
Anyway, those mostly weren't the supposed words of your supposed god. They were the words of somebody weaponizing belief in your god, badly. A familiar tactic.
As a geologist, I find your (and the author's) belief in rapid sedimentation to be fanciful, as well as just plain wrong.
Pick up a geology textbook. It will enlighten you.
Unlikely. That would require a desire to be enlightened, rather than confirmed in one's prior beliefs.
MAGA's primary resources in these debates come from Answers in Genesis, which specializes in deliberate confirmation bias, dishonesty encouraged.
Yup. All through the rock, too. Deep down, not just on the surface where the 'flood' would have deposited them.
Makes sense...
I can't believe obviously fraudulent stuff like this is still making rounds.
Hey MAGA, do you ever stop and think about the crap you post?
That's what religion would say or have one believe. But I'm not one to merely accept the words of a proverbial used car salesman, no questions asked. Especially since those who make such declaration cannot possibly know what God would do or allow. Such arrogant presumption does not lend credibility, much less inspire any kind of faith.
Not without at least some evidence. Why would anyone?
Perhaps because you never offer any evidence or logical summary for your posts. All you offer is empty declarations and cut and pasting.
What makes either you or Hamm right on that? If you can't even agree on the same fairy tale, then how can such a story have validity?
Neither do the small 'c' christians.
Now that's a classic.
She's lying, there is an Apple on her computer....
Do you actually believe this bullshit? Seriously, man, Dr. Purdom is arguing that the evidence of a global flood is that if there were not a global flood then the Noah story would be inconsistent. For example, she notes that the rainbow is a reminder that no such flood will ever occur. Thus since there are rainbows, God certainly was not referring to a local flood (which occur all the time) and thus Noah's flood had to be global.
This is nothing more than a variation of trying to use the Bible itself as evidence that the Bible is true.
Surely you see the problem with that, right?
That's essentially trying make the evidence fit one's own conclusion. It's intellectually dishonest at the very least.
Circular logic, which is a logical fallacy. Of course, some don't really care about that and are not interested in logic or intellectual honesty.
Doubtful.
Since there is no god; we just don't take religionist' words seriously.
And since there is no evidence for any god/s, we do not take the claims of or on behalf of a god seriously.
Basically Mr. Freefaller, the political bunk and the religious bunk are identical.
There are always outliers on everything. It means nothing. Truth is truth, fact is fact and those who accept it understand and those who don't------don't.
Not sure I completely agree with that, I would say the reasons for the seeder posting both (and anything else) are identical
Please don't respond to a comment and then 19 hours later decide to flag for being off topic per seeder.
Very bad form.
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Cheek in tongue. Thanks for proving my point.
That huckster is still in business somehow and still pitching that dumbass ark thing?
One more theory:
The Old Testament is a mix of history and allegory, you will do your God a great disservice if you claim them to be one in the same.