Ken Ham’s Accusation that Peter Enns is a Heretic: An Ironic Condemnation of Himself
Yesterday, I wrote about the response Troy Lacey of AiG gave to the question, “Can someone promote heresy and yet not be a heretic?” This question had been aske...
Tag: Adam and Eve
That Ken Ham…What a Neanderthal! (Or, “The Rise, Genetic Mutation, Interbreeding, and Extinction of Neanderthals…All Within 200 Years!)
In the countdown to Ken Ham’s visit to my town next week, I am making a concentrated effort to write a few more posts on the claims that the folks at Answers in...
Ken Ham and Bryan College…and that Evil Evil Secular Media that Just Distorts Everything!
Today, I’d like to share a short response to one of Ken Ham’s blog from a couple of years ago. This response has not made it into the book I am writ...
Book Review: Karl Giberson’s “Saving the Original Sinner” (Part 3)
Here is the rest of my book review of Karl Giberson’s book, Saving the Original Sinner. Chapter 6: The Origin of Mrs. Cain (and the Posse that Chased her ...
Karl Giberson: Saving the Original Sinner (Book Review: Part 2)
Today I wish to briefly review the first half of Karl Giberson’s book, Saving the Original Sinner. It is “Black Friday,” and I’m sitting...
Book Review: Karl Giberson’s “Saving the Original Sinner” (Part 1)
Karl Giberson is a Christian scholar and scientist who is at the forefront of the current “creation/evolution” debate in the United States. Among his other acco...
Irenaeus of Lyon: Adam, Christ, and the Christian Life (Part 5)
In his article “Our Hearts of Darkness: Original Sin Revisited,” in Theological Studies 49 (1988) (597-621), Father Stephen J. Duffy sums up Irenaeus’ teaching ...
Irenaeus of Lyon: Adam and Eve as Children, and the Greek Philosophical Concepts of Becoming and Being (Part 3)
As I mentioned in the earlier posts, Irenaeus taught that Adam and Eve were essentially children. Such an understanding relates to the very way Irenaeus underst...
Irenaeus of Lyon: Heretics, Ken Ham, and the Proper Understanding of Adam and Eve (Part 2)
So what did Irenaeus believe about Adam and Eve? Or more properly, what does Irenaeus tell us about what the view of the early Church was concerning Adam and Ev...
Irenaeus of Lyon, and the Early Church’s Teaching of Adam and Eve (Part 1)
Over the past year and a half, I have been doing quite a lot research and writing about the young earth creationist movement of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. ...