Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham is facing his detractors once again and defending the story of Noah's Ark in the Bible. This time, Ham addresses a pastor who questioned the veracity of Noah's actions to build a massive ark to survive the great flood.
"A Lutheran-ELCA pastor says the account of Noah is not history, but if that's true then Jesus, Peter, and the author of Hebrews lied. The pastor says Genesis is myth. Well, then the Gospel would also be, as it's preached in Genesis 3:15, 21," Ham writes on his Facebook page.
"If Noah is a myth, then so are all those listed in Hebrews 11, like Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, and others. Would the pastor rather have children be taught evolution as fact and creation as myth? Millstone warning in Mark 9:42! Genesis is history," he says.
Ham was addressing an article written by Pastor Steve Hammer of Esperanza Lutheran Church in Ahwatukee Foothills in Phoenix, Arizona. "If you want to believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old, I have no problem with that as long as you don't use it as a weapon against someone else. You can, like Ken Ham, build a Noah's Ark museum if you have the resources, and continue to tell the story of the flood that wiped out the dinosaurs that cohabited with humans," writes Hammer.
Hammer says he does not consider scripture as a scientific textbook, so he does not need anyone finding or manifacturing archaeological "evidence" about things that happened in the Bible.
"Scripture is sacred story that seeks to put into words a mystery that cannot be contained by words. It illumines truths that are greater than facts, meanings as complex as existence itself. And as the mysteries of the universe or multiverse continue to amaze and baffle me, I make choices daily about how to live not based on facts, but on the kernel of truth at the heart of those mysteries," he says.
