Answers with Ken Ham

This is Ken Ham, inviting you to our Creation Museum with its God-honoring planetarium shows.

The sixth planet in our solar system, Saturn, is surrounded by thousands of intricate rings. One spacecraft, Cassini, passed through these rings at the end of its mission.

As it passed through, it measured the gravitational pull of the rings and confirmed they’re too light to have lasted for billions of years. Cassini also measured dust coming from outer space, and found the rings are too clean to be old. Researchers were forced to conclude Saturn’s rings must somehow be youn...

This is Ken Ham, whose ministry has produced the family-friendly Answers Bible Curriculum.

Saturn’s thousands of rings are the most spectacular of any known planet. They’re made of ice, dust, and rocks ranging in size from a sand grain to a building. The rings and their gaps are so stable each has its own name. And the rings are very intricate—some are even braided!

Many astronomers think these rings formed billions of years ago from the debris of a crashed asteroid or that Saturn’s tidal forces tore apart one of its satellites, arranging the debr...

This is Ken Ham, author of the eye-opening book Divided Nation: Cultures in Chaos and a Conflicted Church.

The giant planet Saturn is made almost entirely of liquid and gas. It’s seven hundred and fifty times the volume of earth. But it’s density’s so low, you could throw it in a giant bathtub and it would float!

Saturn’s very different from earth, obviously. Our planet is solid, and so are Mercury, Venus, and Mars. This is a puzzle to secular astronomers. If our solar system formed from a spinning cloud of dust and gas, why...

This is Ken Ham, on a mission to call the church back to God’s Word and the gospel.

Today we’re finishing a series on creation basics. This last one is found in Genesis eleven. After the flood, God commanded Noah’s descendants to fill the earth. Eventually they decided to stay together and build a city and tower. So, God confused their languages and forced them to spread out and fill the earth.

This event is very important because it explains how our gene pool got split up, resulting in different cultures and ethnicities.

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This is Ken Ham, founder of the apologetics ministry of Answers in Genesis.

Did you know when you look at the world, you aren’t looking at how God made the earth originally? First creation was marred by sin, then the Bible tells us the flood destroyed the world of that day. What we have today is very different to that original creation.

Miles of rock layers, billions of fossils, mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanos, earthquakes, deserts, glaciers, canyons, and even the shape of the continents, are all the result of the flood and its after-effects. Without th...

This is Ken Ham, head of the ministry that built a full-size Noah’s Ark south of Cincinnati.

When you think of creation, do you picture Adam surrounded by tigers, polar bears, wolves, and other modern animals? Well, let’s look at what Scripture says. Genesis tells us God created life to reproduce according to its kind. Later, we’re told Noah was to take animals according to their kinds on the ark.

Researchers have determined that, in most cases, “kind” is equivalent to family in our modern classification system. That means there was a cat kind, a bear kin...

This is Ken Ham, with a passion for sharing God’s Word with the world.

All this week we’re going back to the basics of creation. Yesterday we learned the age of the earth is just six thousand years. We don’t live in a billions of years old universe.

At the end of creation week God said all he had made was “very good.” God’s original creation was perfect. Now, if our earth is old then that would mean there were millions of years of death, disease and suffering before God declared everything was “very good.” Bu...

This is Ken Ham, and we’ve produced the powerful chronological Answers Bible Curriculum.

This week we’re looking at five creation basics that come from the Bible. The first one is the age of the earth. Now, the Bible doesn’t give us an exact age for the earth, but it does give us the information we need to calculate an age of the earth.

You see, Genesis tells us God created in six literal days. Then it goes on to list detailed chronologies from Adam to Abraham. When you add up those dates you get two th...

This is Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, and Ark Encounter.

All this week we’ve looked at the claim that our bodies are full of useless evolutionary leftovers, and we’ve seen this argument is, well, useless!

As our last example, we’ll look at goosebumps. These bumps form when tiny muscles contract, pulling the hair upright. In furry mammals, this helps increase fur’s insulation but, since it doesn’t do that for us, some people say goosebumps are useless. But this muscle action creates extra heat, draws oil to your skin as mo...

This is Ken Ham, inviting you to the Bible-upholding Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky.

Have you ever fallen on your tailbone? It hurts horribly and you can’t sit, stand, or lie comfortably for a while. That’s because many of your important muscles are anchored to your tailbone so when you fall on it, all of those muscles get sore.

But the tailbone is often called a useless organ. Even the name “tailbone” suggests a time in our supposed evolution when we had tails. But, as a fall will demonstrate, the tailbone isn’t useless! Not only does...

This is Ken Ham, on a mission to strengthen the global church with God’s Word.

If evolution were true, our bodies should be full of leftovers from the past. But, starting with God’s Word, our bodies are designed by God. They’re marred by the curse, but we wouldn’t expect to find them filled with useless structures. And we don’t!

One example of a so-called useless structure is the palmaris longus muscle. This muscle stretches from your arm to your palm and helps you flex your wrist. But about fifteen percent of people don’t have...

This is Ken Ham, an Aussie transplant with a passion for sharing the truths of God’s Word.

Have you ever heard that your body is full of leftovers from our supposed evolutionary past? This ridiculous claim has been debunked over and over but the myth hangs on, and news articles still publish lists of these supposed organs.

Sometimes our outer ear muscles are included since we can’t swivel them like some animals can. It’s assumed they’re leftover from our supposed evolutionary past. But evidence suggests they’re important for causing us to reflexively turn our e...

This is Ken Ham, an editor of the book that destroys evolutionary arguments, Glass House.

Years ago, researchers considered dozens of human organs were useless evolutionary leftovers. But research has shown all of these have functions. And yet many are still touted as useless vestiges of evolution.

For example, you’ll still hear the myth that your appendix and tonsils are useless. Now you can live without them, but they have important functions. Your tonsils help catch infections before they invade your body, keeping you healthy. And your appendix is a “safe house” for good bacteria that can re...

This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit the full-size Noah’s Ark in Northern Kentucky.

After the flood, Noah and his family offered sacrifices to the Lord. God had spared them from the wickedness of man and verses in the Old and New Testament make it clear these eight were the only people who survived.

It was then that God put his rainbow in the clouds and made a promise to never again destroy all flesh with a flood. Now many Christians argue the flood was just a local event. But if that’s true, God’s prom...

This is Ken Ham, author, speaker, and blogger on why we can trust the Bible.

When Jesus talked about creation, Adam and Eve, Lot, and more, he always treated them as real people and real events. And when he spoke of the flood he compared the reality of this past judgment, to the reality of his coming judgment on sin.

Jesus said, “as in the days of Noah so it will be when the Son of Man comes.” But if the flood was just a local flood, as some Christians argue, how can Jesus compare the two? The...

This is Ken Ham, a missionary to our evolutionized culture and even the church.

The ark was a massive ship. Five hundred ten feet long, fifty-one feet high, and eighty-five feet wide. It easily fit all the animals needed, plus supplies, and Noah’s family.

Some people argue the flood was local, not global. But why would God command Noah to build such a massive ship if he could’ve just moved to an area outside of God’s judgment?

And Genesis tells us every land-dwelling creature and every person outside the ark perished. But if the...

This is Ken Ham, whose ministry has produced the family-friendly Answers Bible Curriculum.

Genesis seven tells us that during the flood of Noah’s day, the water covered all the high hills to a depth of over twenty feet. Now, some people argue the flood was just local to the Mesopotamian valley. But how could a local flood cover all the mountains in twenty feet of water?

Water seeks its own level; it won’t cover all the hills in one area without spilling into other areas. And, besides, the flood lasted over a year. No small, regi...

This is Ken Ham, on a mission to call the church back to the authority of God’s Word.

Genesis says Noah’s flood covered all the high hills and destroyed every land-dwelling creature not on the Ark. So why do some people believe it was just a local flood?

It’s because they’ve already compromised on the age of the earth. You see, when you reinterpret Genesis to add in millions of years, you’ve got a big problem with the flood. The supposed long ages come from the rock layers. But, if there was a global f...

This is Ken Ham, encouraging all churches to start their thinking with God’s Word.

Nearly all of the world’s opals are found in my home country of Australia. That’s because in nature opals only form under very specific conditions. And Noah’s flood would’ve produced just the right mix of conditions to allow opals to form.

You see, opals don’t take millions of years to form. In the lab they can be produced in just weeks and the man-made opal is almost indistinguishable from the natural-made one.

Gems like opals remind us th...

This is Ken Ham, on a mission to strengthen the global church with God’s Word.

Geologists who start with millions of years have a hard time explaining how the right chemicals and unlikely conditions needed to form emeralds came together at just the right time. Well, that’s because they ignore the Bible’s history!

The relatively rare ingredients needed to form emeralds are found in different types of rocks. They find each other as they’re transported and mixed together by hot water, conditions only met during major earth movements and rising waters during mountain building...

This is Ken Ham, often interviewed on radio and TV on the Bible’s reliability.

Sapphires and rubies are among Earth’s most valuable gems. They’re both varieties of the same mineral, corundum, which is made from aluminum and oxygen. After diamonds, corundum is the hardest mineral.

During the global flood, continental plates rapidly crashed into one another. The intense pressure and heat transformed flood deposits into super-hard rocks with gems. Magma, rising from the mantle, picked up these gems, bringing them to the surface. Others were brought up by crashing plates.

We only have s...

This is Ken Ham, author, speaker, and blogger on science and the Bible’s reliability.

Diamonds are thought to be one of Earth’s oldest substances. And they are! But they aren’t billions of years old. They were formed in creation rocks so they’re only around six thousand years old.

Carbon-14 can only last for tens of thousands of years before it decays away. But researchers have found carbon-14 in diamonds. If they really are billions of years old, there shouldn’t be any carbon-14 left—but there is! And diamonds—the hardest natural material on earth—are t...

This is Ken Ham, an Aussie transplant with a passion for sharing the truths of God’s Word.

Diamonds are formed 100 miles below earth’s surface. They can only survive in a narrow zone. Above or below this zone they break down into graphite, the so-called “lead” in pencils. This stable zone is actually found in rocks that were part of the original creation.

Diamonds are brought to the surface by “pipes” formed from molten rock and cracks in earth’s crust. This rough journey can easily destroy the diamond, unless it happens very quickly. The special conditions of...

This is Ken Ham, editor of the best-selling apologetics series, The New Answers Books.

Today we’re finish our series on how you can encourage your family to stand on the authority of God’s Word. We’ve discussed reading, memorizing, talking about, and rejoicing in it. Now what do all these things have in common? Well, they keep the Bible as a constant companion in your home.

When the Bible is held in this place, you and your family will welcome its authority in your life, and it will have the final say.

When you ar...

This is Ken Ham, the CEO of the ministry behind the popular Answers Bible Curriculum.

The Bible is different from any other book. God’s Word is a fountain of wisdom, it details God’s sovereign acts throughout history, lays out the plan of redemption, and even tells how the cosmos will ultimately end. It’s God’s perfect revelation to us. And reading the Word of the sovereign Creator should give us comfort, peace, and hope as we face worrisome circumstances or scary times.

The psalmist writes that he delights in God’s testimonies as much as he deli...