Troubles beset Kentucky’s Creation Museum

On 21 Aug 2013, at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), an employee was struck by lightning, as he was clearing guests away from the museum’s zip line, in the wake of an approaching thunderstorm. Fortunately, the employee was not seriously injured and was quickly released from a nearby hospital.

But according to a commentary in Slate by Mark Joseph Stern, other troubles are brewing for the museum, which is operated by Answers in Genesis, a leading creationist organization headed by Ken Ham.

The Creation Museum, according to its official website, features 70,000 square feet

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August 27th, 2013 | Category: Essays | Comments are closed

Did dinosaurs live with humans? Were dragons real?

Creationists on dinosaurs and dragons

On 5 Aug 2013, creationist Ken Ham addressed the issue of why dinosaurs are not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, given that, according to the creationist worldview, the earth and all its living inhabitants were created in a few days about 6000 years ago (so that dinosaurs were created with humans and must have co-existed with humans).

Ham’s view is that not only did dinosaurs co-exist with humans, they were also taken aboard Noah’s ark. He cites, for evidence, Gen. 6:19-20, where God instructed Noah to take two of every land animal onto the ark.

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August 27th, 2013 | Category: Essays | Comments are closed

101 Prime Resources on Advanced Mathematics

OnlineMathDegrees.org, a not-for-profit resource for students wishing to pursue a mathematics degree online, has published 101 Prime Resources on Advanced Mathematics, a useful resource with numerous web resources on mathematics education and research.

Some of the items listed include:

American Mathematical Society blogs, an interesting collection of blogs edited by Brie Finegold, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona, and Evelyn Lamb, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah. Encyclopedia of Mathematics, an open-access resources covering many subdisciplines of mathematics. The Pi-Search Page, an online facility to search whether a given decimal string appears in the first 200

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August 14th, 2013 | Category: News | Comments are closed