On Creationism

An article appeared at Answers in Genesis recently, claiming atheism is a religion: The article says: The Oxford English Dictionary defines religion as “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.” Under this definition, atheism would not be viewed as religious since the dictionary definition of atheism is “disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.” That seems to conclude the discussion... Apparently not. The article goes on to say that actually atheism is a religion given these seven aspects of religion. Narrative Just about every religion has a narrative that explains the world around them. Atheism has no narrative. It just says there is no god. Most atheists happened to think the universe started with he Big Bang, that life on this planet evolved over 4 billion years, but that is science, not atheism. Virtually all theists accept science to some degree, and plenty of theists accept science as much as ...

This is prompted by a recent post by Ken Ham , making it very clear he is against homosexuality: Why does he hate gays? Or rather, how does he rationalise his hatred of gays? It is in the Bible! What About Greed? Okay, but the Bible is rather more insistent that greed is wrong, but Ham never rails against that. Why is that? For one thing, Answers in Genesis has a net income of $36.8 million dollars in 2017. That is a huge amount. What do they do with all that money? "Executive compensation" was $710,717 that year. That is money that Ken Ham pays himself and the other executives - most of whom are family members. According to here , Ham pocketed $193,361 just for himself in 2012, and I feel confident saying that that figure has only gotten bigger in the years since. It seems pretty sure Ham pays himself around a million dollars every five years, making him a very wealthy man. Of course Ham is not going to rail against his own vice! Far better to point out supposed voice in...