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Ken Ham is a creationist wackaloon, and the president and founder of Answers in Genesis. He hails from Australia, where all the kangaroos floated during the Flood.

Every year Ham expounds on such thrilling topics as: reliability of the Bible, how compromise over biblical authority has undermined society and even the church, witnessing more effectively, dinosaurs, and “races.”[2] He is unnaturally obsessed with the Book of Genesis from the Old Testament Bible, to such a degree that he has devoted his life to the mental contortions necessary when taking the book to be literal truth. Whether this is a strong personal belief that he holds, or he realized how much money he could get by exploiting popular gullibility, is as yet unknown.

One of his favorite "arguments" is "Were you there?"[3]

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[edit] Australia

The cursed Ham

Ham was created and raised in Australia, where he received a degree in applied science from Queensland Institute of Technology, followed by a diploma of education from the University of Queensland. From there, he became a public school science teacher[4] which makes one somewhat worried about a few years of public school-students from Australia. He was a member of the Creation Science Foundation starting in 1979. He moved to America in 1987 as a "loan" to the Institute for Creation Research.[5]

[edit] Answers in Genesis

In 1993, Ham left ICR to form, with the help of CSF, Creation Science Ministries,[6] which changed its name to Answers in Genesis in 1994.[6] In 2006, the US/UK branches of AiG decided to withdraw from the general collection of AiG international groups because of the other groups' frustration with Ham's personality, taking with them the rights to the name AiG and CSF. The Australian AiG (originally CSF, which helped start CSM), rebranded itself Creation Ministries International. In 2007, CMI sued Ham and AiG.

[edit] Creation Museum

Ham is, with AiG, also the founder of the Creation Museum in Kentucky, built in 2007. In 2010, Ham announced the construction of the "Ark Encounter" theme park, which would include a full-scale "replica" of Noah's Ark.

[edit] Character description

According to esteemed biologist and blogger PZ Myers, writing "to" Ham:

Millions of people, including some of the most knowledgeable biologists in the world, think just about every day that you are an airhead, an ass, a birdbrain, a blockhead, a bonehead, a boob, a bozo, a charlatan, a cheat, a chowderhead, a chump, a clod, a con artist, a crackpot, a crank, a crazy, a cretin, a dimwit, a dingbat, a dingleberry, a dipstick, a ditz, a dolt, a doofus, a dork, a dum-dum, a dumb-ass, a dumbo, a dummy, a dunce, a dunderhead, a fake, a fathead, a fraud, a fruitcake, a gonif, a halfwit, an idiot, an ignoramus, an imbecile, a jackass, a jerk, a jughead, a knucklehead, a kook, a lamebrain, a loon, a loony, a lummox, a meatball, a meathead, a moron, a mountebank, a nincompoop, a ninny, a nitwit, a numbnuts, a numbskull, a nut, a nutcase, a peabrain, a pinhead, a racketeer, a sap, a scam artist, a screwball, a sham, a simpleton, a snake oil salesman, a thickhead, a turkey, a twerp, a twit, a wacko, a woodenhead, and much, much worse.[7]

He has been called "willfully ignorant" by Old Earth Creationist Greg Neyman.[8]

Even those who agree with him criticize him for ad hominem attacks which may be defamatory. [9]

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