Evolution is a blind-faith belief.

Now evolutionists don’t like when I say that; they claim that creationists like me have a blind faith while they have science and facts. But this misunderstands the nature of evolution. You see, the idea of evolution doesn’t come from fossils, biology, or DNA. Rather, it comes from an interpretation of the fossils, biological systems, and DNA from a worldview founded in the belief of naturalism (atheism). Scientists start with their worldview—evolutionary naturalism—and they interpret the evidence in light of their worldview. It’s a belief system (really a religion) that relies on faith. But it’s a blind faith.

Evolutionists must believe all of these things by blind faith:

• Life came from nonlife . . . even though this contradicts the law of biogenesis.
• One kind of creature changed into another kind . . . even though that’s never been observed.
• Natural selection can create new genetic information . . . even though that’s never been observed. Natural selection works on already-existing genetic diversity.
• Various, extremely complex systems evolved multiple times each (e.g., powered flight supposedly evolved at least four separate times).
• Millions of years ago, life exploded on the scene in great diversity with few “ancestors” in the rock layers below (this is called the Cambrian explosion).
• Humans and great apes share a common ancestor . . . even though the number of differences between us and them keeps increasing with each new study!
• Soft tissue managed to last millions of years in the fossil record.

And that’s just some of the problems with evolutionary ideas! AiG’s Bryan Osborne and Avery Foley recently discussed the mathematical odds of evolution occurring, and it really highlights the faith that undergirds this belief system:

Everyone has faith: The question is who is your faith in?

Instead of starting with the words of scientists who weren’t there, don’t know everything, and frequently make mistakes, let’s start with the Word of the One who knows everything, who has always been there, and who never makes a mistake. He’s given us the true history of the universe in His Word (and science confirms the Bible!).

Everyone has faith: The question is who is your faith in? Is it a blind faith that lacks credulity or a faith in the Bible, which is confirmed by what we observe?

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

As Canada allows more and more people to opt for “MAiD”—Medical Assistance in Dying, their government euthanasia program—churches are faced with a pastoral problem: What do you do if someone in your church decides to end their own life at the hand of a doctor? Well, according to the Anglican Church of Canada, you go to their bedside with a liturgy ready to go.

Now the document doesn’t appear to celebrate MAiD. Read what it says in the introduction to this 60-pagePastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medically Assisted Dying document:

Many of the conversations around what constitutes a good death seek to enshrine dignity of the dying person as the highest value. Very often, the understanding of dignity is tied to one’s autonomy in agency—being able to think, act, and make decisions on one’s own. Human dignity, however, rests in our being created by a loving God. It is not something to be tied to a question of worth to be determined according to standards that place autonomy as the highest value of dignity. God has given us dignity and worth as part of who we are as God’s creatures. Our agency in health care decisions is, furthermore, something that we need to entrust to God in our discernment. We do not make decisions alone, but in the presence of God.

Of course, we would agree with much of that—autonomy is not what gives us dignity, rather God endowed us with dignity when He created us in His very image (interestingly they say “God’s creatures,” rather than being made in God’s image. That’s not surprising given that, by and large, this liberal denomination accepts evolutionary ideas). But instead of stopping there and denouncing euthanasia as to what it is—the intentional killing of a human being (murder)—and urging people to start their thinking with Scripture on this issue, they say:

It is not our intent to enter into the ethical arguments regarding MAiD, nor to provide a moral argument for or against MAiD. This resource is about responding to pastoral needs of those who are dying.

In other words: “It might be right; it might be wrong. Who are we to say? But here’s a resource to give you prayers and Scripture readings at the bedside of someone ending their own life.” They go on to suggest some pastors might not be okay with seeming to bless MAiD, but don’t worry, you can “walk the challenging path” of choosing and adapting prayers so as not to imply God blesses the procedure:

A critical consideration for some pastors will be the question of whether or not in pronouncing God’s blessing on the person who is dying, they are blessing the act of the decision towards or blessing the procedure itself. To some following some Dioceses’ guidance or their own consciences, it will be important to walk the challenging path in choosing and adapting prayers in this resource that do not imply that the procedure, the medical assistance in dying itself, and the decision to employ MAiD, are not being given God’s blessing. It is, however, a normal part of pastoral care to be praying for and to offer God’s and the Church’s blessing on the person who is dying.

However, after all these careful caveats, the introduction then says this:

People who choose MAiD freely and without coercion may indeed be ready to go. They have been living with and suffering through complex health challenges and they want the pain to stop. They want to be able to sleep. They desperately do not want their families and loved ones to watch and wait, wondering how much longer? They have exhausted all medical options, and they know, everyone knows, that there is no cure. Some wish, most of all, not to be alone at the time of their death, and to die well. Some, who are Christian, also desire not to be alone at the time of their death, and to die well, and with the grace and blessing of God and with the presence of the Church at their side.

That reads an awful lot like a stamp of approval on MAiD from the writers of this liturgical guide!

The guide then gives prayers, confessions, and Scripture readings, along with instructions for communion, to be administered before and after the physician gives the lethal injection and the person’s life ends.

This guidance is an example of someone using the Bible and very Christian-sounding language without actually believing the Bible or having their worldview shaped by Scripture. They have an “appearance of godliness” in their Christianized language, but in reality, they are claiming that it is a person’s choice whether or not to end their own life and pastors have a duty to be there when that person dies to walk them through it—not to persuade them otherwise or show them from God’s Word that murder is wrong but to participate in their death through the liturgy.

God is our Creator, and He holds our lives in His hands and has sovereignly written in our book the number of our days.

It certainly appears compassionate, but only because they use euphemisms to obscure what is really happening: A physician is murdering a patient. Just because the patient has requested to be murdered doesn’t make murder okay!

In a fallen world, we will all suffer, but we do not hold the authority of life and death over our own bodies. We are not autonomous. God is our Creator, and He holds our lives in His hands and has sovereignly written in our book the number of our days. We look to Him, not our own fallible human wisdom, for what is right and good.

Whether they want to admit it or not, a euthanasia liturgy is the church blessing the choice of self-murder. It is the church condoning evil. Those who are suffering need palliative care from the medical profession—not a lethal injection—and compassion, kindness, and love from the church (and the gospel if they don’t know Christ!). What they don’t need is approval of a sinful choice that takes control into our own hands instead of trusting in the Creator who numbers our days.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Well, this is one of the strangest claims I’ve heard leveled against myself and the Ark Encounter!

Dinosaurs are land animals, so two of every kind of dinosaur (60–80 kinds) would’ve been on the Ark.

At the Ark Encounter, we teach that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark. We do this because the Genesis text is clear that two of every kind of land animal (seven pairs of some) went on Noah’s Ark. Dinosaurs are land animals, so two of every kind of dinosaur (60–80 kinds) would’ve been on the Ark (those not on the Ark drowned, and many became the fossils we find today). At the Ark Encounter, we feature several pairs of beautifully sculpted dinosaurs to answer the question of how dinosaurs could have fit—most weren’t really that large and even the large ones were once much smaller juveniles!

Well, a reporter recently made a video mocking me and the idea of dinosaurs at the Ark Encounter. But then she made a really bizarre claim—she connected dinosaurs on the Ark with, get this, the events of January 6 at the Capitol! I certainly didn’t expect that leap of logic! Well, it is not logic; it’s illogical.

You can see my response to this very strange claim in this video:

No, we’re not on about a political agenda. We’re on about the truth and authority of God’s Word and the gospel message, and we always will be! It’s changed hearts and minds that impact a culture.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Well, this is truly horrifying.

In 2025, 25 Republican lawmakers “signed a letter calling on the Trump administration to determine whether the abortion pill mifepristone has an environmental impact on the U.S. water system.”

Mifepristone is the first in a set of two drugs that end the life (are used to murder) of an unborn child, typically early in pregnancy (up to about 10 weeks gestational age). This drug is basically an antiprogestin, blocking the woman’s body from receiving the hormone progesterone that allows the uterine lining to accept the baby’s placenta. Unable to receive nourishment from mom due to the lack of progesterone, the baby dies and a second drug induces contractions to deliver the dead baby’s tiny body.

About 63% of abortions today are these chemical abortions (642,700 babies killed in 2023), and an increasing number take place at home. But what happens to the mifepristone after the woman takes it and kills her baby? The baby and the mifepristone leave the woman’s body and are flushed down the toilet to presumably be removed by the wastewater treatment plant—except no one was testing if conventional water treatment removed drugs like mifepristone from drinking water. Turns out, according to a new study, it doesn’t.

This study published in Issues in Law & Medicine found “a statistically significant amount of mifepristone was found in all but one of the nine water sources” that were tested (water came from Austin, TX; Blacksburg, VA; and Carbondale, IL). The study authors write:

Conventional water treatment was not effective for removing this EDC [endocrine-disrupting compound] from water in all cities we tested. Two cities showed significant mean concentrations even in tap water.

What impact does this have on the health and fertility of the people drinking the water or the plants and animals that live in or around the water? No one knows because it’s never been studied! But the study summarizes what we do know about these kinds of compounds that disrupt the endocrine (hormone) system:

Past research has shown that endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), including steroid hormones, synthetic estrogens and progestins found in oral contraceptives, are present in water supplies. This problem remains an environmental and health concern, especially given the widespread use of contraceptives and the increased prevalence of medication abortion in recent years. These compounds have a number of deleterious effects on human and animal biology, particularly aquatic animals. Small amounts of these chemicals (parts per trillion) can affect the endocrine system of animals and humans. Progestins, including specifically the anti-progesterone synthetic steroid hormone mifepristone, have been found to have disruptive effects on the fertility and reproduction of fish. Moreover, further highlighting the potential for environmental toxicity and contamination, the FDA recommends treating any unused mifepristone pills as hazardous waste.

In other words, we don’t know the effect on human and environmental health yet for sure, but it’s probably not good!

According to an article reporting on this story:

“The EPA relied on studies that were done . . . in 1996  . . . to make sure that the excreted chemicals in the wastewater and the thrown away pills . . . would not reach a level that would hinder U.S. fertility rates,” [Vice chairman of the Committee on Health and Human Services in the Kansas House of Representatives Ron] Bryce said. “Since then . . . up to 63% or more of abortions are done by chemical abortions. Maybe—who knows—a million a year. And so the levels of mifepristone in our wastewater have grown dramatically.”

Infertility has skyrocketed . . . 84% between 1990 and 2021 globally. . . . The abortion pill was first approved in the U.S. in 2000 and approved in many European countries in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. In 2021, the study found that more than 110 million women faced infertility, and one in 10 women within the reproductive age range were infertile.

Bryce . . . is calling for a study to be done that analyzes infertility in light of mifepristone in the U.S. water system.

“[A] study that was done about a year ago on female frogs [found that] when they were exposed to mifepristone that is considered the level that is in our drinking water today, they had half as many babies,” he said. “And so we’re looking at fertility rates that are very low in the United States and in the Western civilization. . . . It’s either environmental factors or it’s behavioral factors. It’s probably a combination of the two.  . . . We really need to get to the bottom of the environmental factors that might be contributing to this, and it’s just obvious that we need to look at the levels of mifepristone in our water.” [emphasis added]

Abortion harms everyone, babies first and foremost, but also men and women—even those not involved in any way with abortion.

Abortion advocates love to say that what a woman does with “her body” (but really, we’re talking about a woman’s body and a totally separate body, her unborn child, which is not part of her body but has his or her own DNA—a unique combination of information different to any other human being) is a medical decision between her and her doctor. But abortion doesn’t just impact a woman and her baby, who loses his or her life. This new study highlights yet another way abortion impacts everyone as millions of un-consenting Americans ingest harmful compounds that may wreak havoc on their own endocrine system and their future fertility (not to mention the environmental considerations that also impact everyone in one way or another!).

Abortion harms everyone, babies first and foremost, but also men and women—even those not involved in any way with abortion. This new study is just another example of the consequences of a culture that has abandoned God’s Word as the foundation for morality and has legalized and commercialized the slaughter of the unborn.

Oh, and it’s a good reminder to filter your tap water! The study suggests, “Maximum removal requires tertiary treatment, such as membrane bioreactors [like a reverse osmosis system], oxidation, or ozonation.”

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

This past weekend, we at Answers in Genesis heard the sad news that creation speaker and apologist Mike Riddle passed on to his heavenly home on July 31, 2026. Mike, who had a degree in mathematics and education, taught on creation apologetics for over 40 years, with his primary emphasis being to teach the teachers so even more people could be impacted by the message.

In his early life, Mike was a US Marine captain and a world-class athlete, competing in the multi-event decathlon. He also worked at Microsoft and Sprint in engineer training before serving as an adjunct lecturer with the Institute for Creation Research and then eventually joining our staff here at Answers in Genesis in 2005 as a speaker and curriculum developer. He eventually left AiG and founded his own ministry, Creation Training Initiative, which equips Christians to defend biblical truth.

After Mike’s passing, others in the creation ministry field shared what an impact his teaching and encouragement had on them. He certainly impacted many people, including many teachers who would go on to impact others, in four decades of ministry.

His love for teaching apologetics greatly impacted all those who heard.

He was always so enthusiastic and full of energy. His love for teaching apologetics greatly impacted all those who heard. Mike was also known for using hot sauce that most wouldn’t even dare to try! We will all certainly miss him on this earth. With his passing, I would like to challenge others who God may be calling to take up the mantle to spread the biblical apologetics messages that the world so needs to hear.

Please join with us in praying for his wife, Lesley, and his other family and friends as they grieve this loss.

Precious in the sight of Yahweh
Is the death of His holy ones. (Psalm 116:15)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

It’s a biological reality that no child has two moms or two dads. Every child has both a mother and a father—to say otherwise is to deny science—to deny reality. And Them Before Us, a child rights organization, recently blazoned that truth on billboards in 19 locations across the US (and created quite the firestorm in the media!). Why did they do it?

Christians must get involved in defending children from the redefinition of family.

I’ve written about Them Before Us before, especially in relation to their Greater Than campaign, which seeks to overturn Obergefell (the 2015 decision that legalized gay “marriage” in the US) and other anti-family legislation on the grounds of a child’s right to both their mother and their father. You see, legalizing gay “marriage” (it is not marriage, as there’s only one marriage and that is the one God created and defined in Genesis 1–2) didn’t just redefine marriage—it redefined the family, and children are the unconsenting victims of changing the family unit because of adult desires. There is only one place marriage and, thus, the family have their origins—in Genesis.

I urge you to watch this interview between AiG’s Bryan Osborne and Avery Foley and Them Before Us founder and president Katy Faust. She equips you to understand why this issue is so vital to the protection of children, why Christians must get involved in defending children from the redefinition of family, and how to respond to the common objections to the biblical view of the family—one man and one woman for life:

Yes, God’s design is simple and it’s given to us in Genesis:

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Just a few weeks ago, we celebrated 10 years of the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY. We held a three-day celebration in honor of the occasion, and guests loved it. But on Sunday morning, after our anniversary, a group of about 40 atheists gathered outside the Ark Encounter to protest—why, after 10 years, do they continue to protest us?

They continue to protest because they are in rebellion against God, so they hate the message of the Ark.

Well, as I explain in this video, it’s not really because they’re upset about us building a life-size Ark. After all, you don’t see them standing outside of Disney and protesting that attraction! I’m sure if we’d built the Ark just as an attraction that didn’t share the truth of God’s Word or the gospel, they’d have no more of a problem with the Ark Encounter than they do with Disney. And it’s not because of the supposed tax dollars they claim were used to build the Ark. No tax dollars were used to build the Ark, and yet, these atheists continue to lie about the tourism tax incentive. They continue to protest because they are in rebellion against God, so they hate the message of the Ark. And to them, the end justifies the means—so they will say whatever they want regardless of it being false.

At the Ark, we boldly proclaim the truth of God’s Word and the gospel of Jesus Christ, including the need for everyone to repent of their sin and trust in Christ for salvation. That’s really what they’re objecting to because they are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness, just as the Bible says (Romans 1:18).

I respond more fully to this atheist protest in this video for my YouTube channel:

Please join with us in praying that these men and women, made in the image of God with eternal souls, will repent and trust Christ before it’s too late.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Our phenomenal 40 Days of Christian Music festival is truly an event like no other—it’s the world’s largest Christian music festival, and it combines the biggest names in Christian music with Bible teachers who share the truth of God’s Word and the gospel with guests. And the Lord uses this event every year to save people!

The visionary behind this event, Ray Flynn, recently appeared on Lighthouse TV to share about what makes this music festival so impactful. And Karen Peck of Karen Peck & New River, a group that has performed at the Ark each year since we started our 40 Days of Christian Music event, was also part of the interview. I encourage you to watch it below and share it with others:

Join us for 40 Days of Christian Music at the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum, July 28–September 5, 2026. Artists include:

• Jeremy Camp
• CAIN
• Crowder
• Passion
• Matthew West
• Jamie MacDonald
• Selah
• Karen Peck & New River
• Triumphant Quartet
• The Isaacs
• The Inspirations
• Gold City
• And so many (many!) more!

All concerts are included free with admission, so be sure to make plans to join us to hear a favorite artist or discover a new favorite! Plan your visit at 40DaysOfChristianMusic.com.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Did God create earth for man to only occupy the last “six seconds” of time? Okay, what do I mean by this?

According to evolution, earth is 4.5 billion years old. That’s an inconceivable amount of time—no one can truly wrap their minds around a million years, let alone four and a half billion years. In order to make such a vast time frame understandable, a popular science article, using a metaphor from the US Geological Survey, described all 4.5 billion years of supposed evolutionary history as one full 24-hour day, with each second of that day representing 52,000 years, each minute 3.1 million years, and each hour 187.5 million years.

So what does this mean?

Well, according to the article:

• Earth forms at midnight.
• Life emerges at 4:16 a.m.
• Dinosaurs evolve at 10:46 p.m.
• Dinosaurs are wiped out at 11:39 p.m. (only 21 minutes left to the “day”).
• Home sapiens evolve at 11:59:54—just six seconds before the end of the day.
• “Recorded history” begins at the final quarter second.

In other words, humans are just a mere blink on this planet, barely making it in after an incomprehensible amount of time has passed. This is how the article describing all of this finishes up:

Earth is not a human stage with a long prelude. It is a 4.5-billion-year planet on which humans are a final-second phenomenon. Life is ancient. Microbes are ancient. Dinosaurs are late. We are almost impossibly recent.

That perspective can feel humbling, but it is also clarifying. The modern world, with its satellites, cities, farms, languages and histories, is not the main body of the day. It is the flicker at the end.

Compress Earth into 24 hours and the planet becomes a lesson in proportion. Life wakes early. Dinosaurs stride in near the end. Human beings arrive with the clock already touching midnight.

Everything we have written, built, remembered and argued over belongs to the final seconds of a day that had already been running for almost all of time.

And this article didn’t even address the evolutionary belief that the universe is much older than the earth. If you include the supposed evolutionary history of the entire universe in our 24-hour “day,” human history is so short that it’s barely perceptible. Now, of course, I reject this entire idea because I start with the Bible’s history, which necessitates a young earth and universe. But I want to think about this idea from a theistic evolutionary perspective for a moment.

According to theistic evolutionists and other old-earth Christians, God used evolution and/or millions of years to create or, at the very least, to prepare earth and the universe for mankind. But think about that “clock.” If it’s true, God spent an incomprehensible amount of time slowly forming things (and supposedly using death, suffering, and disease to do it, when the Bible is clear death and disease came after sin), all for the purpose of creating mankind. But mankind wouldn’t arrive until a “flicker at the end,” a barely perceptible blip after eons and eons and eons of life coming and going. Aside from all the problems when compared with Genesis and how the New Testament also takes Genesis as historical narrative, consider these verses:

For thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it a formless place, but formed it to be inhabited),

    “I am Yahweh, and there is none else.” (Isaiah 45:18)

Isaiah says God formed earth to be inhabited . . . but in the evolutionary worldview, nothing inhabited earth for a long portion of history, and then when life finally did arise, it was microscopic for the vast majority of history with multicellular life arising very late and human life only at the very tail end.

The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh,
But the earth He has given to the sons of men. (Psalm 115:16)

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:28)

Psalm 115:16 says God has given the earth to mankind, and in Genesis, we read that humans are to take dominion. But if humans are extreme latecomers to this planet, how is earth really for us? And why does it need us to have dominion and be good stewards? It had already existed for supposed millions and millions of years with no human presence. In that view, earth isn’t really for humans—it’s mostly just for microbes!

Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him in love . . . . (Ephesians 1:4)

Jesus said that God created Adam and Eve from the beginning of creation.

The Bible teaches that God’s plan of redemption for mankind was in place “before the foundation of the world.” But the old-earth perspective requires that God planned for our redemption (before He created time), and then when He began His plan by first creating life and the universe, He took 13.8 billion years to get around to finally creating the very people He’d planned to redeem. It simply doesn’t make sense with what we read in Genesis about God powerfully creating everything by His Word and then His plan of redemption immediately beginning (Genesis 3:15), with detailed chronologies to take us through human history from Adam to Christ. “But from the beginning of creation, God ‘made them male and female’” (Mark 10:6).

Jesus said that God created Adam and Eve from the beginning of creation. The last six seconds of earth’s history is certainly not “the beginning,” not even close. So was Jesus in error when He said that or was He lying? Either is a serious charge to bring against the sinless Son of God, who is Himself the Creator of all things!

See the many problems that arise when people try to add man’s ideas about the past into God’s Word? It ends up undermining Scripture over and over again in so many different ways.

Instead of trying to somehow fit incomprehensible amounts of time into the Bible, adding death and disease before sin, and destroying the historicity of the first 11 chapters of Genesis, let’s start with God’s Word and build our thinking from there. When we do that, we have the proper framework for understanding all of human history:

• God created everything in just six 24-hour days, including mankind on day six, about 6,000 years ago.
• His creation was “very good.”
• Adam and Eve sinned against God, and all of creation fell.
• God promised a Savior who would someday crush the serpent’s head,
• God judged mankind’s wickedness in Noah’s day with a global Flood (this is why we have fossils and rock layers),
• God judged mankind’s rebellion at the Tower of Babel, creating different people groups.

It’s this history that gives us the proper worldview for understanding the world around us. Humans aren’t some late arrival on a planet that was slowly and gradually shaped by natural forces. Humans are the crowning jewel of God’s creation, created at the end of day six, given dominion over creation, and so loved by God that He Himself came as a man to redeem fallen humanity so that we could be with Him forever.

The grand history of the cosmos isn’t summarized by a clock, with us sneaking in at the end. It’s summarized in two verses:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

The parasite Cyclospora is currently making hundreds of people across the United States sick and causing many to avoid buying lettuce at the grocery store! In a biblical worldview where we know that God created everything, including microscopic organisms, how do we explain pathogens like this one?

Well, we start with the big picture given to us in God’s Word: God created a perfect world that was marred by human sin. Everything was “very [exceedingly] good.” Now all of creation is groaning.

We know from Scripture that Cyclospora was not making people sick before the Fall. There were no nasty parasites in God’s original “very good” creation. And yet, we have them today, so what happened to turn “very good” creatures into disease-causing nightmares?

When we have questions about the past, we start with the eyewitness account of God’s Word.

The short answer is we don’t know for sure the biological mechanisms that turned parasites nasty. We do know there were at least some biological modifications at the time of the Fall (e.g., thorns and thistles and the serpent being cursed above all the cattle and beasts of the field), so it’s possible other creatures, including microscopic ones, were physically changed by God at the Fall to allow them to continue to survive in a fallen world.

It’s also possible that mutations (genetic mistakes) and genetic losses contributed or that creatures simply became parasitic with little to no adjustment (even evolutionists, who have to explain the origin of parasites, believe creatures could have become parasitic with few changes). More research is needed, but as always, when we have questions about the past, we start with the eyewitness account of God’s Word. (You can learn more about the origin of parasites in this article on our website).

Want to share the truth about Cyclospora with others? AiG’s director of research Dr. Georgia Purdom did a great job giving an answer in this short video for our YouTube channel:

I encourage you to share it with others!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

It’s an objection we often hear: God is a cruel God to have wiped out potentially millions of people with a catastrophic global Flood. Some people will even claim God was committing mass genocide against the pre-Flood world, so He must be an immoral deity. Now what’s the foundational problem with this argument?

Well, here’s the big problem: Why is wiping out millions of people wrong? The answer I usually get to that question is “because of course it is!” And yes, nearly everyone would agree that you or I wiping out millions of people would be wrong, but that doesn’t explain why it’s wrong. Just saying something is wrong doesn’t make it wrong; what if I have a different opinion? Who gets to be right? You need an absolute authority to appeal to, but an atheist doesn’t have one.

Apart from the absolutes of the Bible, given to us by the Creator God, there is no foundation to say that murder is wrong.

Someone who rejects the truth of the Bible doesn’t have a consistent foundation on which to stand to say that killing anyone is wrong. After all, blue whales wipe out untold billions of helpless krill every single day, and no one bats an eyelash! Why? We intuitively know that a whale swallowing a krill is not the same thing as a human being killing another human being. But if we’re just animals, as the evolutionary worldview teaches, there is no real difference between us and krill and blue whales; we’re all just animals and accidents of evolution.

Apart from the absolutes of the Bible, given to us by the Creator God, there is no foundation to say that murder is wrong. In order to argue that God is unjust to kill people with the Flood, the skeptic must first assume the morality of the Bible . . . and then they’ve defeated their entire argument!

Now, of course, God was not cruel to judge people for their wickedness at the time of the Flood. AiG’s Dr. Tim Chaffey answers that objection further, among other objections, in this video:

Ultimately, atheists aren’t upset that God judged people at the time of the Flood for their sin (they claim they don’t believe God exists or that those pre-Flood people even existed!)—they’re upset that someday God will judge them for their sin. They don’t want to be accountable to God; they want to do whatever they want without consequences. But regardless of what they believe, they will someday stand before God, and He will judge them for their sin. If they have not repented, they will pay for their own sin in hell. But if they turn from their sin and trust in Christ’s sacrificial death on their behalf, they will be saved for all of eternity.

How arrogant of fallible, sinful humans to tell the eternal God what is just and unjust!

Have you trusted in Christ?

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Do you want to be with your children all day and all night long? Well, if you said “yes,” you are apparently “weird” and untrustworthy—at least according to the viral comments made by podcast host Angie Sullivan on the political pop culture podcast, I’ve Had It. Her comments are very revealing about how our culture views children!

Sullivan’s comments were directed toward homeschooling moms, who she thinks are “weird” because they want to be with their kids all day! She said:

You would not believe how many people in Bible study homeschool their kids, and you just think, ah, I worry about that . . .

I just think homeschooling is a bad idea from soup to nuts. I don’t care if you’re a nuclear physicist. I think it’s just [expletive] weird as [expletive] that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night . . .

For me personally . . . I would have gotten up on my hands and knees and strapped them to my back and crawled to get them to school every day, just to get them where I wasn’t. So, I don’t trust somebody that wants to be with their kids 24/7. I think a lot of dumb people do it because it’s just easier, and that’s a concern . . .

I just can’t think of very many good things about homeschooling.

God’s Word tells us children are a blessing to be desired.

Of course, her ridiculous comments had many homeschool moms laughing (I’ve spoken to enough homeschool moms, and watched my wife homeschool our five children for several years, to know that no one homeschools because “it’s just easier!”). But it also reveals how many, especially those on the left like her, view children: They are a burden, an inconvenience, and they just get in the way. God’s Word tells us children are a blessing to be desired.

One of our writers shared with me that her mom (who has 15 kids and homeschooled them all) is part of a class with several other middle-aged women who, when chatting between classes, often mention that they actively encourage young people not to have kids but rather to get dogs instead because kids are just too hard (a view our writer’s mom heartily disagrees with!). Sadly, it’s an increasingly common view.

Contrast that message, and Sullivan’s anti-homeschooling rant, with Jesus’ words:

Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” And after laying His hands on them, He departed from there. (Matthew 19:13–15)

When children were brought to Jesus, the disciples treated them as an interruption to the important work that Jesus was doing (in context, Jesus is teaching the Pharisees, surrounded by large crowds). Instead of ignoring the children or shooing them away so He could continue teaching the adults, Jesus takes the time to rebuke His disciples for their attitude, take the children, lay His hands on them, and bless them. He valued them and treated them—and their interruption—as a good thing, worthy of His time and attention.

This attitude toward children is seen throughout Scripture. In God’s “very good” (Genesis 1:31) original creation, Adam and Eve were told (after God said He “blessed them”) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), and Noah and his family were told the same thing after the Flood (Genesis 9:1). Psalm 127 says children are a heritage from the Lord, and a man is blessed when he fills his quiver with them. Sarah, Hannah, and Elizabeth are all examples of women who longed for children and were eventually given a son, with great rejoicing.

In a biblical worldview, children are a gift from God to be rejoiced over, cherished, discipled, nurtured, loved, and yes, given time and attention.

In a biblical worldview, children are a gift from God to be rejoiced over, cherished, discipled, nurtured, loved, and yes, given time and attention. But this doesn’t necessarily come naturally. We’re all sinners with selfish hearts turned inward, desiring to meet our own wants and needs, rather than serving others and sacrificially giving of ourselves. It’s interesting that the Holy Spirit, through Paul, instructs older women to teach younger women to “love their children” (Titus 2:4). It’s not always easy, but it’s a joy when we live submitted to Christ, ordering our lives with Jesus first, others second, and ourselves last. My wife, Mally, powerfully teaches this concept with real examples from 50 years in ministry and marriage, as well as decades as a mother and grandmother, in her new book Home Fires. That order is backward to what the world tells you, but that’s what honors God and brings lasting joy and eternal reward. (If you haven’t read her book yet, you really should! It’s filled with challenging teaching and encouraging stories from her life and Scripture passages.)

Personally, I would say that the podcaster is focused on self and wants to put herself first in everything!

So if you’re a “weird” parent who likes being around your kids and you homeschool, I want to highlight a few of our homeschool resources for you as “back to school” approaches:

• Answers Bible Curriculum for Homeschool (designed for K–5th grade). This four-year, through-the-Bible curriculum is chronological and packed with doctrine, theology, apologetics, biblical worldview, and the gospel right from Genesis. There’s nothing else like it on the market, and you will love it. Each lesson also comes with an entertaining teaching video from AiG’s Bryan Osborne and Avery Foley, which kids absolutely love.
• Science curricula that teaches young-earth creation and a biblical worldview. Our publisher, Master Books, offers a wide range of science curricula that all teaches Genesis as literal history and is filled with biblical worldview teaching. Whether you’re looking for general science for your elementary student, anatomy for your middle school student, or specialties like forensics or astrophysics for your high school student, you can find it on our online store. And you can trust that everything will point your kids to the truth and authority of God’s Word.
• Adam’s Chart of History. This is a fun resource to help families establish a proper chronology for history from creation through the modern era. This vintage resource has been republished with 21 panels of detailed, full-color drawings of various stages of history, from Adam and Eve to the late nineteenth century, with handwritten commentary throughout so you can wrap your walls with history and make connections you never noticed before.
• Explore Days and High School Science Labs. Our Explore Days at the Creation Museum are hands-on science education from a biblical worldview. Choose between Explore Jr., for ages 5–12, and Explore for 11–18-year-olds. For high school students, we also offer labs so they can enjoy hands-on exploration and collaboration with other students. You can learn more on our Creation Museum website.

You can find all of our curricula by visiting the curriculum tab on our online store.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

We were excited to learn recently that the story of Answers in Genesis, Miraculous!, which I wrote last year, was a finalist for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Christian Book Award® program.

We were notified that my book was a finalist in the Biography & Memoir category with a letter that said,

Dear Ken,

I am writing to extend my personal congratulations to you as a finalist in the 2026 Christian Book Award® program in the category of Biography & Memoir for your title:

  Miraculous! The Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis Story

This award program, now in its 48th year, is recognized as the top honor for literary excellence within the Christian publishing industry. The finalist designation recognizes your title as one of the best Christian books of the 2026 in its category.

It’s a story of God’s faithfulness and His miraculous provision over 50 years of ministry.

Miraculous! really is a special and unique book as it tells the story of my childhood; growing up in north Queensland; my parents and their stand on God’s Word and how they diligently taught me and my siblings the Bible; and how I came to be involved in creation ministry (I call it the “fire in my bones”) and started Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, and the Ark Encounter. But it’s more than that. Really, it’s a story of God’s faithfulness and His miraculous provision over 50 years of ministry. It will have you giving thanks and glory to God for what He alone can do! There is also great teaching throughout, helping people understand how to step out in faith and to know God’s leading in one’s life.

(And if you’d like to hear the “other side” of the story, my wife, Mally, just published Home Fires, a wonderful book of wisdom and encouragement that will challenge you as she reflects on her life and 50 years of ministry alongside me. She also provides great practical teaching on marriage and raising children too. Don’t miss it!)

We’re excited that Miraculous! was a finalist in this award program, and if you haven’t already read it, I encourage you to order your copy today and be uplifted by what the Lord has done!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

It’s the most unique Christmas play you’ll find anywhere!

Every year our K–12th grade, parent-partnership, biblical-worldview Christian school, Answers Academy, puts on a high-quality Christmas play in front of hundreds of people in the Answers Center at the Ark Encounter.

This play is not your run-of-the-mill Christmas pageant—it’s an apologetics-filled, biblical-worldview, gospel-centered Christmas program.

And this play is not your run-of-the-mill Christmas pageant—it’s an apologetics-filled, biblical-worldview, gospel-centered Christmas program that always connects Jesus with the Old Testament and what He came as the babe in the manger to do for sinful mankind. Written by our Answers Academy staff members, each year’s play focuses on a different person or theme connected with the Christmas account. And then we make these scripts available to you and your church, school, or co-op!

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The script we’re releasing this year, The Zealot’s Fight, focuses on a fictional character but addresses real issues at the time of Christ’s birth: how the Jewish people should react to the oppression of the Romans and what the Messiah would really come to do. It connects Old Testament prophecies with the birth, life, and death of Christ and highlights that Jesus didn’t come focused on throwing off human oppression and correcting every injustice—rather He came to save His people from their sins (and someday, in the new heavens and new earth, all oppression and injustice will be done away with forever).

I encourage you to check out The Zealot’s Fight or our other unique and powerful Christmas plays. They are great for churches, Christian schools, and other venues.

Visit AnswersBookstore.com.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

“Have you not read?”

When Jesus was asked a question about marriage, His answer began with, “Have you not read?” (Matthew 19:4–5). He pointed His listeners back to the authority of the Word of God—beginning in Genesis because next He quotes the text of Genesis 1:27 and 2:24! According to Jesus, Scripture has authority, and it’s the foundation for how we think about everything, including marriage.

And what about the Old Testament? Over and over we read, “Thus says the Lord,” or “The Word of the Lord came to,” or something similar. We’re told that the Old Testament is not just the words of men—it’s the Word of God. Again, the authority of the Word of God is emphasized.

So what do we make of pastors, like the ones in the video below, who claim God got it wrong or the Bible is just a book about God? Well, we take what they say, and we compare it against the authority of the Word of God! Rather than trusting fallible human beings, we start with God’s Word in every area.

You can learn more in this short video I made for our social media team:

Yes, Scripture has authority—Jesus said so!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Once again, I get to write about a study that changes everything evolutionists believed about evolution! (It seems we cover these kinds of stories constantly!) This time, the study looked at genetic mutations and whether they are mostly harmful, mostly beneficial, or mostly neutral, and what researchers found was surprising. Based on previous evolutionary hypotheses, many more mutations are beneficial than was previously thought.

So what does this all mean? AiG’s director of research and molecular geneticist, Dr. Georgia Purdom, explains:

Welcome to this week’s installment of how observational science shows evolutionary ideas fail!

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution states that most mutations result in neither harm nor help to an organism. Harmful mutations are removed by natural selection (aka death!), beneficial mutations are rare, so observed DNA differences between organisms are neutral.

Here’s two major problems with that “theory.” For one kind of organism to evolve into a different kind of organism, many, many beneficial mutations must occur. The problem is that beneficial mutations are thought to be very rare. In addition, mutations are context dependent, so what is beneficial in one environment may not be beneficial in a different one. Take for example antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Mutations that lead to resistance may be beneficial to bacteria living in a hospital where there are a lot of antibiotics, but that resistance comes at a cost. Those same mutations result in degradation such that certain normal functions are lost or hampered. If the antibiotic-resistant bacteria are placed in an environment without antibiotics, they likely will not be able to compete effectively against other bacteria that don’t have those mutations.

To address some of the problems with the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, the scientists in this study asked: “Are beneficial mutations really that scarce?” Studying one-celled organisms like E. coli and yeast, they determined that beneficial mutations may be quite common. BUT they don’t typically get “fixed” in a population (meaning they never become dominant in the population). Why? Because the environments they live in can change quickly, and so what might be beneficial in one environment is not beneficial in another (like with antibiotic-resistant bacteria).

An article describing the research said,

The findings point to a more restless view of evolution. Rather than steadily marching toward a perfect fit between organisms and their environments, populations may often be stuck in pursuit of conditions that keep changing . . .

Evolution may be less like climbing steadily toward perfection and more like running after a world that keeps moving.

It seems like evolution is on the inevitable hamster wheel going nowhere! If beneficial mutations are common but can’t become dominant and are context dependent, then how can organisms gain the necessary structures and functions to evolve into other organisms? Evolutionists might posit time is the key. However, time is irrelevant because what is needed is a genetic mechanism, and they just don’t have one.

Evolution still doesn’t have a mechanism to create the information necessary to turn a single-celled organism into all the life-forms we have today.

In other words, beneficial (and what that means is not what many people think it means) mutations might indeed be more common than thought, but it doesn’t actually help evolution because they don’t “stick” in a population, due to ever-changing conditions. So evolution still doesn’t have a mechanism to create the information necessary to turn a single-celled organism into all the life-forms we have today (think about the mind-boggling amount of genetic information you need to do that!).

And we can’t forget that mutations (and natural selection as well) occur on information that already exists. There’s no known naturalistic mechanism that can create brand-new, functioning genetic information. That simply doesn’t occur. Evolution is nothing more than a story, accepted on faith, about the past. And the observational science keeps contradicting it!

Information in DNA exists because God created it from the very beginning, and mutations exist because of the Fall corrupting the “very good” information that God originally created. The biblical worldview explains what we observe!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

The Answers in Genesis ministry wouldn’t be here without her, and yet few of our supporters have ever seen or spoken to her, let alone know the many sacrifices she’s made over 50 years of ministry. But you now have an opportunity to go “behind the scenes” and glean from the wisdom, experience, and dedication of my wife, Mally Ham, because she’s written a truly encouraging and challenging book, Home Fires: One Wife’s Call to Faithfulness, Sacrifice, and Joy in Ministry.

This book is more than just her story and the story of AiG from her perspective, it’s a book of wisdom for all of life’s seasons (marriage, parenting, grandparenting, suffering, and ministry), a challenge to always live with Jesus first, others second, yourself last, and an encouragement that what you do matters for now and for eternity.

We’ve heard from so many people who’ve read the book that it was so down-to-earth, so practical, and felt just like having a conversation with Mally.

We’ve heard from so many people who’ve read the book that it was so down-to-earth, so practical, and felt just like having a conversation with Mally. I know you’ll love it (and you’ll enjoy the special family photographs and funny family stories sprinkled throughout).

You can find Home Fires on our online store (and take advantage of our special Ark Encounter 10th anniversary sale of $10 off a $50 order of resources with code ARK10 at checkout).

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Wow! That was fast! It only seems like a few years ago that I was asked for the first time how Noah could fit the animals on the ark. But that was in 1975 during my first-ever science class when I was a teacher in the public schools in Australia.

It only seems like a couple of years ago we decided to pursue building a life-size Noah’s Ark. But that was in 2004.

It only seems like yesterday when we opened the themed Ark Encounter attraction in Northern Kentucky. But that was 10 years ago on July 7 when it was officially opened to the public.

Yes, July 2026 is a great time of celebration for the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the Ark Encounter attraction.

Oh, there were battles and naysaying from Christians and non-Christians. We had a battle with the state of Kentucky and then-Governor Steve Beshear over tourism tax incentives, but the Lord enabled us to win that battle.

I had a number of Christians, including some Christian leaders, tell me we should have spent the money on proclaiming the gospel.

Well, the Ark Encounter, which teaches the gospel clearly through various exhibits, attracts many non-Christian visitors—they make up about 30% of its total visitors—and our extensive guest surveys reflect that an estimated 70,000+ people a year trust Christ for salvation as a result of their visit. I would call that a fantastic investment in people’s eternity!

A number of 2014–2016 articles questioned whether enough tourists would come, whether bonds would fail, whether taxpayers would be left holding debt, whether it would become an abandoned attraction. Various blogs and reviewers claimed the project would fail.

The most important impact has been the spiritual one, with so many each year becoming Christians after visiting the two leading Christian themed attractions in the world.

But 10 years later, millions have visited the Ark as well as AiG’s first attraction, the Creation Museum. Since the Creation Museum opened in 2007 and the Ark in 2016, around 16 million visitors have come to Kentucky to visit these world-class attractions. Many hotels have been built in the area, and having so many people visit has been a financial boon for tourism in Northern Kentucky. The impact on businesses in Northern Kentucky has been phenomenal.

But the most important impact has been the spiritual one, with so many each year becoming Christians after visiting the two leading Christian themed attractions in the world.

When we opened the Ark Encounter, a small group of atheists gathered outside the gates to protest the opening of a private facility, on private land, built by private funding! They had done the same when we opened the Creation Museum in 2007.

It’s a reminder of how intolerant such people are. They don’t want Christians having the ability to get the message of God’s Word and the gospel out publicly. They want to impose their anti-God religion of atheism on the culture.

A handful of atheists continue to protest the Ark most years in July—a small sad group who need our prayers. Over the years, we have reached out to them in various ways. They are so lost. But I’ve met a number of people who have told me they were atheists who mocked our ministry but that after watching some of our videos, visiting our attractions, or reading our books, the Lord opened their hearts to the truth, and they became on-fire Christians.

As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the world’s leading Christian themed attraction, the Ark Encounter, I want to honor the late Patrick Marsh. God brought Patrick along to design the exhibits at the Creation Museum and then the Ark Encounter. Patrick had the God-given talents and experience to ensure the Ark and museum were very “Disneyesque” in quality.

There’s no doubt God brought Patrick to us to make these attractions world-class. And this year, we opened the new Welcome Center at the Ark. Patrick was working on the design of this center when the Lord took him to his heavenly home. Our designers honored Patrick in using his basic design for the construction of this fantastic addition to the Ark Encounter.

Also, we praise God for the Amish and Mennonite craftsmen who wanted to use their talents for this evangelistic project. A special thanks also to the late LeRoy Troyer, the architect the Lord raised up, who saw the Ark as fulfilling his life’s work and calling.

Thank you, Lord, for providing all the people you brought along to enable the vision for the Ark to become a reality. And we pray the spiritual impact of these attractions will only continue to grow so many more will know they will spend eternity with their Savior.

Congratulations to all involved in building the Ark Encounter.

Today is International Moon Day!

Just about a week ago, we hosted Astronaut Encounter 2 at the Ark Encounter with three Christian astronauts, including General Charlie Duke, who walked on the moon during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He was the tenth and youngest person to walk on the lunar surface, and he’s a Christian who gives God the glory for what He’s made.

(That event was a great success, everyone loved hearing from these godly men who have experienced so much and are so bold for the Lord. Enjoy these photos and a big thank-you to our event sponsor, BJU Press.)

On this International Moon Day, I thought I’d highlight how the moon confirms a young universe, like the Bible teaches, not a supposed billions-of-years-old one.

Every year, it drifts about an inch and a half further away from us due to gravitational forces involved with the tides.

Did you know the moon is actually moving away from earth? Every year, it drifts about an inch and a half further away from us due to gravitational forces involved with the tides. Interestingly, measurements and data from the Apollo missions gave us this precise recession rate. And this rate gives a maximum age for our earth-moon system (and spoiler, it’s not billions of years!).

You see, an inch and a half isn’t much over the course of a few millennia (in the 6,000 years that’s passed since day four of creation week, the moon has moved less than 1,000 feet) . . . but the moon is supposed to be 4.5 billion years old. Over that amount of time, an inch and a half a year adds up! It adds up so much that if we extrapolate this recession rate back into the past, the moon would’ve been touching the earth just 1.5 billion years ago. And that doesn’t match with lunar origin stories or the scientific data (the moon couldn’t be that close to earth without our gravitational forces destroying it).

Of course, rescuing devices have been proposed, but they all fail for one reason or another (you can read this article to learn more). The truth is that our moon displays the glory of God and confirms exactly what we’d expect starting with Scripture: It’s not billions of years old.

And our moon is not the only one out there. Other planets in our solar system also have their own moon or moons, and like our moon, these celestial objects also confirm the Bible’s history. You can learn more about them in this article, “To the Moons and Back.”

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Atheists and atheist groups are angry about a recent decision in Texas to introduce select Bible passages as required reading for students in public school classrooms. They claim this is bringing religion into the classroom and that’s unconstitutional. But is religion already in the classroom?

Yes! Secular is not neutral! One is either for Christ or against him. Atheism, grounded in naturalism (materialism—no supernatural), is the prevailing religion of our day, and it’s taught as fact in school classrooms across the United States. I explain more in this recent video I did for my YouTube channel on this new Texas decision:

Religion is already in the classroom, and the only reason atheists don’t want the Bible in the classroom is that they want their religion of atheism to be taught exclusively!

Yes, religion is already in the classroom, and the only reason atheists don’t want the Bible in the classroom is that they want their religion of atheism to be taught exclusively! And why? Because ultimately, they hate God and the Bible and want to define truth for themselves—they want to be their own god (Genesis 3:5). The Bible is offensive because it tells us we are not God, we don’t get to determine truth for ourselves, and we are sinners who cannot save ourselves (only Jesus can save us). Our sin nature hates that message, but it’s the message every single person needs to hear!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

We’re in the middle of VBS season here in America, and thousands of churches are moving children from anxiety to peace through Emerald Crossing: An Irish Adventure Through Psalm 23 (our powerful 2026 Answers VBS). But two churches were doing something a little different—teaching over 1,000 children through Spy University that there is one true God who created them and offers salvation to them. Yes, those churches were the test churches for our 2027 VBS, Spy U: Uncovering Counterfeits, Discovering the One True God. And it’s going to be another fantastic and powerful VBS.

I’ll tell you more about Spy U in a moment, but first, here’s just some of the feedback we’re receiving for Emerald Crossing:

• We are praising God for an amazing week, 160 kids, 110 volunteers, 20 salvations, hundreds raised for our missions. Glory to God, he is so faithful, our loving Shepherd.
• Thank you for Emerald Crossing VBS. Our team loved it. We’ve done Answers VBS for the last six years, but this one was truly special. The comment I kept hearing was how much the teachers and kids appreciated having one passage to memorize and work through. It gave the entire VBS a great continuity as the kids knew what to expect each day. Plus they were proud to say they had memorized a whole chapter of the Bible.
• I’ve directed VBS in three states and over 20 years. Used [other curriculum] and landed with AiG eight years ago and haven’t looked back. By far the best Bible curriculum, love the science, drama, and all the extras.
• We switched to AiG a few years ago because the biblical content is so relevant to what our kids need in this day and time. We love how it reaches what the Bible says versus what the world says. Our favorite so far has been Jungle Journey, Emerald Crossing was awesome too!
• I love how thorough, biblical, and intentional all aspects of the curriculum are.
• We love Answers curriculum because it is theologically sound, more affordable, and has many features other curriculums don’t provide. We have been very please[d] the past two years!
• Answers doesn’t shy away from hard biblical truth and teaches it so well to the kids!

We’re thrilled Emerald Crossing is having such an impact.

Praise the Lord! We’re thrilled Emerald Crossing is having such an impact.

So what’s planned for 2027? Well, we’re using a fun spy adventure theme to teach kids that there are many counterfeit views of gods but only one true God.

Enjoy these photos from our test churches:

Kids will use their detective skills to find out that:

• God is unique because he is the only true God—the Creator God. They’ll uncover counterfeit views of gods and discover the God of the Bible.
• God is unique because he is one God in three persons. They’ll be on the lookout throughout the Scriptures for those persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• God is unique because he himself came to earth to rescue us. Kids will be challenged to admit, believe, and forever receive Jesus Christ as their Savior.
• God is unique and beyond description! Kids will crack codes to track down some of his attributes.
• God is unique because he wants to have a personal relationship with us. Kids will learn their mission—to keep God as their first love.

We always feature apologetics content to equip kids to defend the faith and have answers to today’s questions.

As always, Answers VBS features deep lessons that really get kids into God’s Word and engage with the issues and ideas of our day, fun music and memory verse songs, games, snacks, crafts, a daily drama, and science experiments.

Something that is unique to Answers VBS is that we always feature apologetics content to equip kids to defend the faith and have answers to today’s questions. At Spy U, they’ll discover:

• There’s only one true God. All others are counterfeits.
• The Trinity is a reality but also a mystery.
• The biggest difference between Christianity and other religions is who Jesus is.
• God’s character is like no other.
• Unlike other religions, our God is about relationship. He is loving and personal.

The test churches loved Spy U, and we’re excited for hundreds of thousands of children next year to be impacted by this outreach. Spy U is now available for preorder at the lowest price it will be offered—25% off! Preorder a kit now to receive this special discount, along with a free themed tumbler and early access to the music and leader guides as soon as they’re released.

I consider Answers VBS the most powerful VBS in the world. We hear from many Christian leaders that they’ve never seen so many trust Christ for salvation until using our VBS. And so many leaders tell us once they have used an AiG VBS, they won’t go back to any other program.

Preorder today at AnswersVBS.com.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Have you checked out the new Ark Encounter app yet?

Our web development team has been hard at work creating an app specifically for guests visiting the Ark Encounter. Available for both Apple and Android devices, our new app allows you to:

• Navigate easily with a digital park map.
• Apply filters and search the map to find exactly what you’re looking for.
• Find hours and the daily schedule at your fingertips.
• Find FAQs, attraction rules, accessibility, and more.
• Never miss animal shows or presentations again. Enjoy live updates to our digital daily schedule!

With our free app, you can start exploring before you arrive and experience the Ark like never before. I think it will be a great asset for the Ark and our guests, especially as the attraction continues to expand. Our team continues to add items to this app and will soon release one for the Creation Museum.

You can download the Ark Encounter app for free and check it out today.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Did you know that evolution is a story about the supposed past and the future?

When most people think of evolution, they view it as an explanation for how life and the universe came about. But the evolutionary story is also an attempt to explain our future. You see, if the slow and gradual processes of the present can be extrapolated back into the unobserved past to figure out what must’ve happened then, they can also be extrapolated into the future to figure out what will supposedly happen to life and universe.

And in the evolutionary worldview, the future is pretty bleak:

Scientists have long estimated that in about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of fuel, first expanding into a red giant and eventually becoming a white dwarf that will continue cooling for tens—if not hundreds—of billions of years. Amid this dramatic sequence of cosmic events, the fate of Earth remains uncertain.

Will it be pulled into the expanding red sun and disappear forever? Or, though long since rendered uninhabitable, will it continue orbiting the white dwarf remnant of the Sun until the universe reaches its eventual heat death?

Apparently, most scientists favor the first scenario: The sun “eats” the earth. Of course, by the time anything like this supposedly happens (an alleged two billion years from now), evolutionists believe humans and all other life will be long extinct, so there would be nothing around, in their own worldview, to observe whatever happens to the earth. But a new study suggests that maybe the “earth gets eaten” prediction isn’t the right one after all.

The new study, based on improved models of tidal dissipation and stellar mass loss during the sun’s transition into a red giant, points to a different conclusion. According to the researchers, tidal dissipation—the process that drains orbital energy and gradually causes elliptical orbits, such as Earth’s, to become more circular—would be less effective than previous models suggested.

At the same time, observations of the red giant L2 Puppis, located about 209 light-years from Earth, indicate that the sun could lose enough mass for this effect to outweigh the influence of tidal forces. If so, Earth’s orbit would gradually move outward, significantly increasing its chances of surviving the red giant phase.

So maybe earth will survive, but then the next paragraph of the story says, well, maybe it won’t because “Earth’s ultimate fate remains far from certain . . . the final stages of a star’s evolution involve many variables that are difficult to predict with precision.” And of course, these “variables” are based on evolutionary assumptions and interpretations about present-day stars and the evolutionary stages they supposedly go through. If those assumptions are wrong (and they are), so is everything about all these studies on our future!

Earth won’t be swallowed by the sun—it will be destroyed by God when He judges mankind’s sin.

But there’s another assumption that’s the foundation of these kinds of studies: There is no Creator God who controls the universe. We don’t have to wonder about how the earth will end; God has already told us that it will end when He returns in judgment to judge earth with fire before creating a new heavens and a new earth. Earth won’t be swallowed by the sun—it will be destroyed by God when He judges mankind’s sin. But the good news is, that’s not the end! There is an eternity of joy in the presence of God on a perfect, renewed creation for all who will put their trust in Him.

You know, this study is yet another reminder that the evolutionary and biblical worldviews are utterly incompatible with each other. Just as evolution is wrong about the future, it’s wrong about the past. Many Christians try to add evolution or millions of years into the Bible, but what they are really doing is taking one religion (evolutionary naturalism) and adding it into the Bible. It’s making man, and his interpretations of the world around him, the authority rather than God.

Evolution tries to explain everything because it’s part of the religion of naturalism. Without an explanation for life and the universe apart from God, there is no naturalism, so they must have evolution and must use it to explain everything. But it’s the wrong worldview—and it’s hopeless, purposeless, and meaningless, ending in nothing but death.

Hope for humanity and this fallen creation is only found in the biblical worldview and the true history—and future—found in God’s Word.

Oh, and two other points to consider:

1. From an evolutionist’s perspective, all life becomes extinct, so ultimately no one will ever know they existed. So what’s the point of fighting creationists, and ultimately, what’s the point of anything in this ultimately meaningless existence?
2. Isn’t it interesting that those Christians/Christian leaders who compromise God’s Word in Genesis with evolution concerning the past then go to the Bible to say what will happen in the future. They are totally inconsistent. They accept what the naturalistic evolutionists say about the past but reject what they say about the future and turn to God’s Word instead. So inconsistent!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

In 2005, scientist Dr. Mary Schweitzer and her team found unfossilized soft tissue in a T. rex femur—red blood cells, blood vessels, and collagen fibers. It was a phenomenal find, and since then, soft tissue has been found in many other fossils (some considered to be hundreds of millions of years old by evolutionary dating). Soft tissue is a tremendous confirmation of the biblical timeline of just thousands of years for fossils . . . or is it?

In 2016, the old-earth creation organization Reasons to Believe published a book called Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth. The book attempts to harmonize the existence of soft tissue with the millions of years worldview and discredit young-earth creation arguments regarding these soft tissues. A decade later, this book continues to be promoted. So what do we make of these arguments?

Well, AiG geologist and former director of research, Dr. Andrew Snelling, is writing a six-part series, thoroughly reviewing Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth and responding to the claims. The subtitle of the first installment in the series gives you an idea of what Dr. Snelling will be exposing in his response: “Part 1—Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth: A Futile, Deceitful Attempt to Critique Valid, Powerful Young-Earth Evidence.”

The short answer is, no, soft tissue is not compatible with an old earth, and yes, it is indeed a powerful confirmation of the biblical timeline.

The short answer is, no, soft tissue is not compatible with an old earth, and yes, it is indeed a powerful confirmation of the biblical timeline. For all the details, I encourage you to read Dr. Snelling’s thorough series, starting with Part 1. The whole series will be posted under “Review of Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth” as each article is published. Be sure to bookmark that page and check back so you don’t miss any of the articles. I consider Dr. Snelling the leading creationist geologist in the world.

Reasons to Believe, and other compromising ministries like it, promote an old earth because they chose to start with man’s ideas about the past rather than God’s Word. They may say they believe God’s Word is the authority, but they reinterpret God’s Word in light of man’s ideas. God’s Word isn’t really their authority—sinful, fallible man’s interpretations of the past become the authority. That’s why this issue matters so much—it all comes down to biblical authority!

Science, including soft tissue in fossils, confirms the Bible, not old earth and evolutionary ideas. We can trust God’s Word!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.