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Holograms—Part of a Stir!

Our Creation Museum’s new Lucy exhibit has created quite a stir. The bones of Lucy are used by evolutionists probably more than anything in their attempt to show that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor.

Even some evolutionists have been impressed by the use of holographic technology to view “inside” the Lucy model. Museum visitors (and many staff) have been asking, “How did they do that?”

Rob Taylor, of Forth Dimension Holographics, the creator of the Lucy holograms, did a presentation for AiG staff. He brought many samples of holograms to demonstrate their dynamic and visual properties. He explained aspects of the processes used to make holograms, explained a little bit about their invention (theorized in the 40s and finally realized in the 60s when lasers were invented) and shared his vision for how holograms could be used in new ways to enhance museum exhibits.

Included in Rob’s presentation were the original hologram masters from the Lucy exhibit. This first stage of the holographic process captures not only the subject of the hologram, but the entire holographic studio that surrounds the subject. The table, the walls, ceiling, floor, and even the holographers themselves! It is a lot like looking through a small window into the room. Anything the viewer could have seen through that window can be seen in the master hologram. Much like a film negative is used to make photographic prints, the master hologram is used to make the final analog reflection holograms, like the three in our Lucy exhibit.

The Lucy holograms were created in the only pulse laser holographic studio in North America, and believe it or not, this high-tech studio is located in the basement of a home in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri.

Rob also brought along examples of full-color animated digital holograms, a technology we hope to use in future museum exhibits—so that is one of the reasons Rob featured this technology at the Creation Museum. We hope to expand and upgrade other exhibits in the future with such technology.

This brief video shows the set up for viewing a holographic master:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Please continue to pray for our museum design team as they continue to keep the Creation Museum on the cutting edge technologically so we can communicate the most important message in the world to people—the message of the truth of God’s Word and the gospel.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

You Compare!

As many of you know, I spent a couple of weeks in England and Northern Ireland on a speaking tour earlier this month. Shortly after I returned to the US, a reporter with the Belfast Telegraph, Fionola Meredith, wrote an extremely negative article about the talk I gave at Martyrs Memorial Church in Belfast.

In Meredith’s article, she characterized my talk as a “blood-red battlecry of Christian militancy,” and she described me as a “true showman” with a “swaggering ego.” Her article was a flagrant attempt to discredit the ministry of Answers in Genesis and the authority of God’s Word.

While I was in Northern Ireland, I gave a talk at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast, which dealt with a lot of similar material as the talk that Fionola Meredith attended. It was not the talk the reporter attended, but nonetheless it represents the basic message I give. The video of my talk is available on Metropolitan Tabernacle’s website. It was very professionally produced, with my many illustrations shown on the screen as I was speaking. Really well done!

I urge you to watch my talk for yourself and see how the secularists often misrepresent biblical creation ministry.

Compare how I say things and what the reporter writes about us. Because we live in a world where even much of the church has rejected Genesis chapters 1–11, this reporter’s negative response is no surprise. But despite the secular world’s rejection of the authority of the Bible, we must continue to contend for the faith against the secular attacks of our day. We must share with the entire world “the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16).

Atheist Billboards

I want to draw your attention to Dr. Georgia Purdom’s blog post this week about a new atheist billboard campaign. These anti-God boards are being posted by the group American Atheists, the same group whose president debated Dr. Terry Mortenson of our staff last June on CNN. Here is the offensive board:

This is not the first time the American Atheists group has mocked Christianity with billboards—see two of their anti-Christmas boards at this Answers magazine article.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Garden Celebrations

More and more people are holding family events and other activities at our Creation Museum and in the beautiful botanical gardens. This past Saturday, two families held celebrations that represented the end of a life and the beginning of a marriage.

Former AiG staff member Roger Goodart, who helped build the Creation Museum (he put in miles and miles of wiring inside the museum and AiG headquarters), passed away earlier this month. His widow, Tracy, wanting to celebrate her husband’s life and his part in building the museum, had a fellowship meal served on the museum grounds after the memorial service was held at a local church.

The reception was held in one of the pavilions in the museum gardens. Her husband Roger is in the foreground.

It was at this pavilion that Roger’s family and friends were told that they could take a short walk over to the museum and tour it at no charge as a guest of Tracy’s. Tracy wanted to make sure that any family and friends who were skeptical about the Christian faith would take the opportunity to honor her husband by walking through the museum he helped build. And 48 people did!

Our condolences to Tracy on her loss, but we are grateful for her “creation evangelism” efforts.

Meanwhile, just a few yards away in the pavilion next door, a wedding was being set up as the fellowship meal for Roger’s group was going on. I have lost track of how many couples have gotten married on our museum grounds—and also inside our new Legacy Hall (which can accommodate many more people for a wedding or other special event than the outdoor pavilions).

Here is the set-up before the wedding.

I find it so encouraging that people are using our facilities as a witness as they hold special events at the museum, where they hope that friends and family will be exposed to the teaching of the museum and the gospel while on our property. Maybe these two events held last Saturday at the museum will prompt you to have your own event here as a special outreach?

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Robots at the Creation Museum

Recently, a Robotics team from Bob Jones University in South Carolina ran workshops at the Creation Museum.

The BJU Science and Technology Ministry Team teaches students to program robots using what’s called the Lego Mindstorms NXT ®. Participants, who are placed in teams of three, learn teamwork and hone their problem-solving skills. This eye-opening workshop helps young people appreciate the complexities of God’s creation through the exciting study of robotics.

Here are some photographs taken during the workshops:

We are thrilled that the team from Bob Jones University visits the Creation Museum from time to time to run these popular robotics programs.

At the Creation Museum, we run many different kinds of workshops. Make sure you keep up with the ongoing Creation Museum programs as well as other ministry news by signing up for our newsletters.

More AiG Resources Now in Florida

We just arrived back after an Answers in Genesis Conference in Fort Myers, Florida. Lots of AiG resources were distributed so that more people will be impacted by the truth of God’s Word and know how to defend the Christian faith against the teaching of evolution and millions of years that is undermining the authority of the Word of God in our day.

Here is one of my favorite photos—a young girl enamored by AiG resources:

Here is the audience during one of my presentations.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

What Do They Really See?

Someone brought a recent article on the Fox News website to my attention. The article begins with the following:

Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year.

Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.

The galaxy is about 5.7 billion light years away in the center of a recently discovered cluster of galaxies that give off the brightest X-ray glow astronomers have seen. It is by far the biggest creation of stars that astronomers have seen for this kind of galaxy. Other types, such as colliding galaxies, can produce even more stars, astronomers said.

But the Bible says that at the end of the sixth day of creation, God “finished” his work of Creation. So is star formation continuing? Do they really see stars forming?

We asked a creationist astronomer about this article. He explained that at the distance of this galaxy, individual stars are not visible. The conclusion that there is large star birth here, he told us, is an inference that is laden with evolutionary assumptions. Very bright, hot, blue stars have short lifetimes compared to the billions of years normally assumed. This conclusion is based on the amount of power that these stars radiate, and it is independent of any particular source of energy.

The PhD astronomer also stated that when a galaxy such as this appears very blue, it likely is because the galaxy’s light is dominated by these bright, hot stars with very short lifetimes. So in a billions-of-years scenario, evolutionists believe that these stars must have formed very recently and that star formation likely is still going on. This to them suggests a much higher-than-normal star birth rate, hence the claim of a “star burst.”

He concluded by telling us that such discoveries of star burst galaxies have been claimed for some time. Two things make this recent claim unique, he said. First, it suggests a much greater rate of star birth than previously claimed. Second, this galaxy appears to be at the center of a cluster of galaxies. Hence it is assumed to be the dominant galaxy in the cluster. Dominant central galaxies tend to be redder and are thus assumed to be older than the other galaxies in their respective clusters.

The bottom line is that astronomers do not see stars forming. This is an interpretation based on evolutionary assumptions.

Isn’t it sad how news reports like this indoctrinate people to believe something that hasn’t been observed?

In a few days, we will present a more thorough analysis of this claim on the AiG website.

You can read the article online at Fox News.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Could “ODD” and “IED” Have Another Name?

A newspaper article in Australia piqued my interest yesterday. The article begins as follows:

NAUGHTY kids are turning up to school with notes from doctors who have given their unruly behaviour a medical name – oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).

And children who lash out at teachers or students have also been diagnosed with a condition termed intermittent explosive disorder (IED).

Psychologists are diagnosing ODD – characterised by persistent anti-authoritarian behaviour – at a greater rate than autism. Child psychologist Lisa Good said the condition was real and created a lot of stress for parents, who couldn’t understand why their child was mucking up.

Ms Good, from the Psych Professionals in Brisbane, said she had diagnosed more children with ODD and conduct disorders over the past two years than autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or anxiety.

We certainly live in a world where in our Western cultures, parents are increasingly abandoning methods of disciplining and training children that (even for non-Christians) were really by and large based on biblical principles.

We also live in a world where even young children are now being brought up to reject the absolutes of Christianity (e.g., marriage is increasingly being redefined), and they are taught they are just animals that have evolved over millions of years and thus there is no real purpose and meaning in life except what we want to make it to be for ourselves.

Is it any wonder we are beginning to see this rejection of basing our worldview on God’s Word—that once permeated our Western world—played out in the behavior of recent generations. Certainly, there are those young people who do have real medical issues. But it seems to me that in many instances what are now being defined as supposed medical conditions (such as ODD and IED) may actually be SIN.

And the more our cultures abandon God’s Word, the more these problems will increase.

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Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Educators Who Want Indoctrination in Evolution

Over the years, I’ve found that evolutionists are less and less willing to even discuss the possibility that their conclusions about origins might be wrong. I received a letter from a supporter recently who was very concerned about an article she read in the quarterly journal, American Educator. Now, this journal is intended for classroom teachers who want to read about “educational research and ideas.” Unfortunately, the article this supporter highlighted contained little research, but a lot of indoctrination into evolutionary ideas.

The article is titled, “An Evolving Controversy: The Struggle to Teach Science in Science Classes” (Summer 2012, pp. 12–23). The authors, Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer, are professors of political science at Pennsylvania State University. They have written about the creation vs. evolution controversy before, but this article highlights their bias toward evolutionary belief in stunning ways.

Berkman and Plutzer performed a survey of high school biology teachers nationwide to determine whether these teachers believed in evolution or creation and how their beliefs affected their teaching. But before the authors even discuss the results of their research, they make a case for evolution/millions of years—part of which is based on ideas that even evolutionists reject! And then they end their argument by claiming that evolutionary ideas are a foregone conclusion:

Although the details are subject to revision based on new and better evidence, the fundamental hypothesis of common ancestry has been verified so many times, by so many independent kinds of experiments spanning different scientific specialties, that there is no longer serious debate that evolution has occurred. (p. 15, emphasis theirs)

There’s no more debate? So scientists have actually observed and proven the process of molecules-to-man evolution? This should be big news even to evolutionists! Of course, no one has observed (and no one ever will) molecules-to-man evolution. But what “evidence” do the authors present? One of the examples that they rely on to demonstrate that evolutionary ideas are beyond debate is the supposed “missing link” known as Tiktaalik.

Tiktaalik was a fish believed to have been able to walk on land (using its fins). But when evolutionists discovered similar fossilized tracks that they dated at 9 million years older than Tiktaalik, they had to rethink their entire hypothesis! And yet, they still wholeheartedly hang on to their evolutionary beliefs about Tiktaalik. (For more information on Tiktaalik, read Dr. Dave Menton’s articles here www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v1/n1/story-walking-fish and here www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v2/n1/tiktaalik-fishy-fish.)  Really, Tiktaalik is just a lobe-finned fish (the Coelacanth is a lobe-finned fish—it was once thought to be a transitional form until scientists found it living in our present world).

And how about all the cases in the evolutionary model where there is nothing to work with but hypotheses? No matter, says Berkman and Plutzer, “the absence of fossil evidence supporting a transitional feature is not sufficient cause to reject the hypothesis that these species existed; it may just mean that fossils of transitional species have yet to be discovered or that such fossils never formed” (p. 14). Incredible! In other words, they have no proof, but they “know” these “missing links” existed and that the fossils are out there somewhere, all based on their faulty evolutionary starting point—so don’t bother arguing with them about it!

Berkman and Plutzer’s weak case for evolution/millions of years is followed by an analysis of their survey of high school biology teachers. As expected, they treat the title “creationist” as an extremely negative one—and use negative language in general in regard to teachers they call “creationist.”

Now, the way Berkman and Plutzer present it, the public schools are full of  biblical creationists who are out to eliminate any form of respectable science. But what are their criteria for being a “creationist”? They write, “We classified 13 percent ( a very small number by the way) of the teachers as advocates of creationism because they spend at least one hour of class time on intelligent design or creationism and use that time to present it in an affirming manner” (p. 17). And what do they mean by an “affirming manner”? The teacher presents intelligent design or creationism as “a valid, scientific alternative” and says that “many reputable scientists” agree.

According to the article, these same teachers spend anaverage of 11.6 classroom hours on evolutionary ideas—compared to one hour on what may not even be biblical creation! And they’re upset because the teachers who do present some form of creationism or intelligent design . . . are telling the truth—that there are scientists who believe in some form of creation or intelligent design and that there is evidence that supports it.

One of the teachers surveyed made it clear that he presents creation and evolutionary ideas, but he does not share his personal views with students—he lets his students make an informed decision about what they believe. But the authors won’t accept that solution. Instead, they labeled him an “advocate of creationism.” Later in the article, Berkman and Plutzer even connect a belief in creation with a lack of college education in evolution. Basically, they’re saying that if creationists were to take more college courses in evolution, they would understand that evolutionary ideas are right and change their minds.

Of course, Answers in Genesis does not advocate government-mandated teaching of biblical creation in classrooms. However, we do advocate teaching students to think critically about the claims of evolution/millions of years, but Berkman and Plutzer don’t seem to support that.

So what practice will Berkman and Plutzer accept from teachers? Indoctrination, plain and simple. Their stamp of approval is placed on the following method of teaching:

Overall, strong advocates for evolution teach evolution not only as the NRC recommends, but in a way that gives little support to modern creationists. They clearly articulate evolution as an accepted scientific fact. Many contrast it with religion in a way that suggests to students that one can find ways to reconcile religion and science. (p. 17)

Further proof of their advocacy for indoctrination comes in their instructions concerning students who are still not convinced of evolutionary ideas: “To the extent that students are not convinced by the evidence before them, they should simply be encouraged to explore the available evidence further, in the reputable, peer-reviewed literature, and by enrolling in higher-level courses” (p. 23).

Really, the goal of these authors is to discredit creationists and encourage compromise among Christians. It’s all part of the erosion of biblical authority in society. Many in the secular world know how necessary Genesis is to the rest of Scripture, and they’re willing to sacrifice teaching students to think critically about the claims of Scripture versus the claims of evolutionary ideas—all to ensure that their viewpoint is the only one heard.

These authors are not researchers in the true sense, for they are agenda-driven educators who want students to be indoctrinated in evolution.  Most kids from church homes go to the public schools.  Parents need to understand what most public school educators are indoctrinating their children in—atheistic evolution.  And remember, two-thirds of children from Christian homes will walk away from the church by the time they reach college age!  Make sure you read the book Already Gone that details the research conducted on this.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

(This blog was written with the assistance of researcher Steve Golden.)

What Does “Conversation” Really Mean?

(With AiG researcher Steve Golden.)

As the debate over evolutionary ideas and a literal Genesis continues, more and more people want to get into the discussion. Ryan Pettey, a documentary filmmaker, recently released a documentary called From the Dust: Conversations in Creation. One of the groups backing the documentary is BioLogos, which promotes the belief that God used evolution—so we guessed what his stand would be! Pettey took the angle that we’re having a “conversation” about origins.

When Mr. Pettey’s team asked our publicist (one of the best in the business) about filming at our Creation Museum and interviewing some staff, our publicist shared with us that according to the filmmakers, the video would be (in our publicist’s words) “about the scientific data in support of creation, reading and interpreting Scripture, theological and social implications of creation and of macro-evolution.” But we were cautioned by our publicist that the filmmaker was a fan of BioLogos on his Facebook page, though the filmmaker assured our publicist that his video “would examine Genesis in a balanced way.” The longer I’ve dealt with the opposition to biblical creation, the more I’ve come to realize that even words like “conversation” or “balance” lose their meaning. But we thought it was important to get out our message of biblical authority, so we agreed to have Mr. Pettey’s crew here.

After watching the final video, we saw that it was hardly a “conversation” about creation, despite the documentary’s name. What the people involved really wanted to do was push their agenda of promoting theistic evolution (or “evolutionary creation,” as BioLogos calls it). Biblical creationists were presented as people who only want “war” in the Christian faith and who deny what is claimed to be “truth” (i.e., evolutionary ideas). The Creation Museum was presented as the primary opponent throughout the documentary, with footage of the museum and of one of Dr. Terry Mortenson’s lectures, and an interview with astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle (who is now with the Institute for Creation Research).

Those interviewed for the documentary included N.T. Wright, Peter Enns, Darrel Falk, Alistair McGrath, John Polkinghorne, April Maskiewicz, Richard Colling, and Ard Louis. Many of these scholars hold views similar to theistic evolution, and they argue that evolution and millions of years can be meshed with the Bible.

One of the most blatant instances of the bias toward evolution and millions of years in this documentary was near the beginning. Richard Colling, a former biology professor at Olivet Nazarene University (a Christian college), talks about how sad it is that children are taught by their parents and pastors that “believing in evolution is sort of like denying the Christian faith. And so then they come to college and in that setting they learn that evolution is real, and that it’s part of God’s grand design. It literally broke my heart to see so many young students sometimes in my office in tears because their parents are telling them and their pastors are telling them that you’ve got to reject the science to be a Christian. And I just didn’t see that that was necessary.”

Colling wrote a book called Random Designer, in which he asserts that “life began apparently 3.8 billion years ago” (p. 93). So here is another example of a professor in a Christian college teaching students that they can mix evolution and millions of years with Scripture. Of course, as I’ve said many times before, believing in a young earth and six literal days of creation is not a salvation issue—but it is an authority issue! What Colling is teaching in his book is that man’s opinion on origins is far more trustworthy than God’s account of our origins in Genesis.

Alistair McGrath, professor of theology, ministry, and education at King’s College, London, criticizes biblical creationists as being “superficial” for concluding that evolutionary ideas lead to a purposeless existence. Ard Louis, a reader in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford, goes so far as to claim that, even though Christians see value in God’s active creation of the universe and Adam and Eve, the way we were made doesn’t matter! He says that instead of focusing on a literal creation, Christians should find their value in what God thinks of them.

John Polkinghorne, an ordained Anglican priest and former professor of mathematical physics, closes this segment of the film by saying that truth can come through science, but that some Christians are “turning their backs on certain types of truth.” Polkinghorne is obviously implying that biblical creationists are denying the alleged “truth” of evolution and millions of years.

Do any of the above comments sound like a “conversation”? All of these scholars say they want to talk about science and faith, but they really just want to push their compromising view of theistic evolution without entertaining a response to their claims. The most disturbing part of this documentary was footage from a biology class at Point Loma Nazarene University—another Christian college.

April Maskiewicz is an associate professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene, which is also where Darrel Falk (who has been the president of BioLogos) teaches. Maskiewicz is no stranger to BioLogos, having served as an instructor last year for a Christian school teachers training program BioLogos put on. In From the Dust, Dr. Maskiewicz asks her students to discuss evolutionary ideas. In the documentary footage, the students were clearly being challenged to reconcile evolution and millions of years with the Bible. The majority of these Christian college students took a theistic evolution stance, saying that God’s supposed use of evolutionary methods to create was far more “glorious” than the Genesis account.

Dr. Maskiewicz explains how she went to college and did not have a chance to have a “conversation” about origins. She says that, as a result, she accepted the “no brainer” ideas of evolution and “left college an atheist.” She continues, “Ultimately, within a couple more years, I came back to trying to reconcile my faith with what I knew about the biology.” Her story sounds awfully similar to Dr. Falk’s, doesn’t it? (I blogged about Darrel Falk’s struggle with evolutionary ideas in a post recently)

Dr. Maskiewicz is not having a “conversation” with her students either. We know what God’s Word says about creation, and yet she calls evolutionary ideas a “no brainer” and teaches students and other teachers how to reconcile them with Genesis. I’ve talked and written before about the compromise on biblical authority going on in our Christian colleges and seminaries, and Dr. Maskiewicz is another in a long list of examples.

It’s sad to see the authority of Scripture abandoned when it comes to the Genesis account of creation, Fall, Flood etc., all in the name of having “conversations.” And it’s even worse to see that those “conversations” are just opportunities to indoctrinate students into evolutionary ideas. If you’re looking for Christian colleges that boldly teach the authority of God’s Word from the first verse of the Bible, visit www.CreationColleges.org for a list of schools that hold to a literal Genesis. I also urge you to read my book Already Compromised for more information on the state of Christian colleges today. Lastly, I encourage your young people who are considering a Christian college to attend November’s college expo here at the Creation Museum.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Returning to Cedarville University

I am quite pleased to be speaking at a special pastors’ outreach and luncheon in Cedarville, Ohio (near Dayton, about an hour and 45 minute drive north of the Creation Museum) on Thursday, August 23. The event is being hosted by our friends at Cedarville University on its “Pastor appreciation day.” This is the same school that filmed me in 1999 for our very popular 12-part Answers video series. I have received a lot of feedback over the years from people who have watched that series and said it changed their lives. So it is thrilling to return to Cedarville for this conference.

Each pastor will receive complimentary copies of my co-authored book Begin and my DVD Already Gone.

The event is by registration only. Pastors and their spouses can register online, but they need to do so by this weekend. The lunch can accommodate 250 people, so registration is on a first-come basis.

The schedule is as follows:

Cedarville University

August 23

8:00–8:30 a.m.

Registration

Stevens Student Center lobby

8:30–9:45 a.m.

Continental Breakfast Reception with Dr. Brown

SSC Event Rooms (240, 241, 245, 246)

10:00–11:00 a.m.

Fall Bible Conference Chapel with speaker Rob Turner, Lead Preaching Pastor of Apex Community Church

Jeremiah Chapel

Dixon Ministry Center

11:00–11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30–1:30 p.m.

Lunch and session with Ken Ham

SSC Event Rooms (240, 241, 245, 246)

Register online.

Concerning News

A news item that appeared yesterday is very concerning, but we praise the Lord that a much more violent ending was averted. Many of you may have read of the person who shot a guard at the offices of the Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington DC—an organization that stands for Christian morality and the truth of God’s Word concerning marriage and the family. FRC and its leader Tony Perkins are good friends of AiG. From the news reports and others we trust, it seems the shooter was wanting to use his actions to make a statement concerning FRC’s biblical stands.

Sadly, we are seeing more anti-Christian sentiment growing in this culture.

Pray for FRC, and pray for the guard who was shot and for his family.

You can read a news report online.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Reflecting on the UK

I have just arrived back home after 11 days in the UK (England and Northern Ireland) speaking in churches and conferences. A few days before I left, there were news items in the UK concerning the continuing drop in church attendance (basically down from around 50 percent in the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries to five or six percent today). It is now being predicted that church attendance in the UK will drop to three or four percent by 2020. Even in Northern Ireland (which has been much more “Christian” than much of the UK), church attendance continues to drop.

I challenged the people at the various meetings concerning the compromise in the church regarding the book of Genesis. This disbelief has contributed to past and current generations not accepting biblical authority.

I was thrilled to see that the auditoriums were packed at nearly all the meetings. We even had overflow crowds at a number of them. Lots of young people also attended the meetings. Many people gave testimony as to how AiG had greatly impacted their lives in the past and through these teaching meetings. There was a phenomenal hunger for AiG resources and tremendous interest in AiG’s Answers magazine—the award-winning publication that is the leading biblical creation apologetics magazine in the world.

Here are some photographs from a number of the meetings in England and Northern Ireland:

Olympics Outreach

My speaking tour coincided with an outreach led by Dr. Dave Crandall from AiG Worldwide, who led 100 volunteers from the USA and Canada as they evangelized London during the Olympics. They handed out witnessing booklets and engaged people in conversation concerning the gospel. We were able to view the Olympic Stadium from a nearby shopping center, but I did not attend any of the Olympic events. Here are two photographs:

Here are photographs of the AiG team (who paid their own way and accommodations to be a part of this evangelistic outreach) who went to London:

The team.

Praying at the start of their time on the streets of London.

Handing out booklets on the streets of London.

Titanic Exhibition

We didn’t have time to do much sightseeing, but we had one day in Belfast where we squeezed in a to visit the new Titanic exhibit. It was phenomenal. The visitors center (which was very crowded) is built on the site where the Titanic ship was built 100 years ago. I have visited the Titanic exhibition in Branson, Missouri (and there is another in Gatlinburg, Tennessee), but this center in Belfast is very different and much more impactful.

I was reminded once again that when this great ship sank, there was no difference between the very rich (and many wealthy people were on board) and the poor. Those who drowned all had to face their Creator.

Visitors Center in Belfast for the Titanic (very high-tech inside with lots of fascinating information in the many exhibits).

The left one of these two ramps led to the dock where the Titanic was built (it is now filled in). The right ramp is where its sister ship (Olympus) was built.

A model of the Titanic.

It was a very draining and packed speaking tour of the UK, but it was also very rewarding. The many, many testimonies I received reminded me how important it is to get this creation/gospel message out. Pastors in both England and Northern Ireland said that I “fired” them up again to the importance of this biblical authority message.

And as is happening in the USA, I had a number of parents tell me they heard me speak as young people many years ago. As a result, they are now bringing their children up on AiG resources. It was such a blessing to talk to some of these young kids and hear their enthusiasm for AiG’s messages about dinosaurs and so many topics.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken