Cedarville University is an independent Baptist school located in #Cedarville, #Ohio, which teaches its academics "by Christian tradition" — meaning, believing that their take on religion is the only right view, that free speech is a no-no, that gays are evil, that evolution is religion and creationism is science, that the Bible is a history textbook and that any TV show/movie/video game/book they don't like is sinful. The school teaches Young Earth Creationism and complementarian gender roles and requires students to take a minor in Bible studies regardless of their major.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cedarville_University

Kirk Cameron is an American washed-up former child television star, who, like many such former child stars, has grown up to become a dysfunctional adult. However, while many merely become addicted to drugs or went on to do porn, Cameron found a much more dire fate being a hope dope dealer (televangelist), Biblical literalist, and worst of all, Ray Comfort's sidekick.

Cameron claims he used to be an atheist. Assuming that is true, it's not likely his atheism was well thought out as he claims to have become a saved Christian at age 17.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kirk_Cameron

There is debate among Christians about how The Bible should be best interpreted.

Biblical literalism is the theological view held by one group of Christians that one should regard the contents of the Bible as literally true and "inerrant". The text is not (according to this view) to be interpreted as allegory, or mythology, and is without fault in its claims, unimpeachably true in all matters. Literalism provides the bedrock for several different pseudoscientific positions, such as young-Earth creationism, deluge theory, geocentrism, and flat-Earthism. Biblical literalism, as applied in history, has also justified slavery, as well as bolstering racial segregation, Jim Crow laws, and Apartheid (Acts 17:26). Biblical literalists can find support both for monarchies and for theocratic republics. Take your pick.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism

The Ark Encounter is a $102 million amusement park in #Williamstown, #Kentucky; it features "a full-size Noah's Ark, built according to the dimensions given in the Bible", the world's third such structure, or, to be more accurate, "a boat-shaped building held together with riveted steel brackets". Ark Encounter opened in 2016 amidst controversy and chaos, as per usual for anything involving Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ark_Encounter

In Abrahamic lore, Noah's #Ark was a gigantic wooden vessel in which #Noah supposedly saved every kind of animal of the Earth from an alleged great flood. This myth appears in the Torah and in the Qur'an; it most likely represents just one of a number of retellings of retellings of retellings of the same general Mesopotamian flood-story, as exemplified by the story of Utnapishtim, the King of Shurrupak, in the Epic of #Gilgamesh.

Any Bible-believer (for example, a creationist) who wants to argue that the Noah's Ark narrative is a scientific/historic story needs to give a clear answer to all of the questions outlined below - without invoking an act of God.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark

Answers Research Journal is a "peer-reviewed" creation "science" #pseudojournal published by Answers in Genesis (AiG). ARJ features #pseudohistory, bad philosophy, and Biblical literalist analysis pieces, but not much in the way of science.

Upon creation of the journals, Nature, Scientific American and Discover quickly published criticism of the site. Slate and AiG themselves have also traded commentary, and several blogs such as the Sensuous Curmudgeon and Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes have routinely produced criticism of the journal.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal

The evidence against a recent creation is overwhelming. With the possible exception of Flat Earthism, there is no greater affront to #science than Young Earth creationism (YEC).

This article collects a near-exhaustive list of evidences that place a lower limit on the age of the Universe beyond the 6,000 to 10,000 years asserted by most Young Earth creationists (YECs) and the literalist Ussher chronology. All of this evidence supports deep time: the idea, considered credible by scientists since the early 1800s, that the Earth (and the Universe) is millions or billions of years old. Modern science accepts that the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old and the entire universe is around 13.77 billion years old.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_against_a_recent_creation

Raymond "Ray" Comfort, also known as Banana Man is a #Protestant #Christian author, video producer, street preacher, and liar for Jesus. Comfort is a young Earth creationist and opposes the theory of #evolution. His arguments for a young Earth are entirely unfounded in science, demonstrate basic misunderstandings of #evolution and #science in general, & often aren't even based on reality.
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Comfort