{"id":670,"date":"2008-07-30T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=670"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:12:17","slug":"hamming-it-up-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hamming It Up&#8221; in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ham,Young Earth\u00c2\u00a0Creationist, the founder of Answers in Genesis-U.S. and the Creation Museum, will be holding a conference in Jacksonville Florida on Sunday August 17th through Monday 18th. Apart from the usual mind boggling topics such as: \u00c2\u00a0College Outreach &#8211; Answers to Most Asked Questions\u00c2\u00a0In Genesis,\u00c2\u00a0Creation v\u00c2\u00a0Evolution and :Genesis: Key to\u00c2\u00a0Understanding Today`s World, there are several other topics that should raise concern in all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Would you, as a parent, subject your children to such discourses that include: The Origin of Racism, Darwin`s Racist Roots (ages 11&amp; up) and:<em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Learning How to Think Only\u00c2\u00a0Biblically ( grades 7-12 ). It&#8217;s bad enough for adults to\u00c2\u00a0contaminate their minds with this 19th Century thinking, exposing young children to this type of\u00c2\u00a0hogwash is nothing less than criminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ham,Young Earth\u00c2\u00a0Creationist, the founder of Answers in Genesis-U.S. and the Creation Museum, will be holding a conference in Jacksonville Florida on Sunday August 17th through Monday 18th. Apart from the usual mind boggling topics such as: \u00c2\u00a0College Outreach &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-aO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":955,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=955","url_meta":{"origin":670,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Natural Selection is not Evolution&#8221;","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting story: Creationism Museum Says Darwin Got Something Right LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A controversial Kentucky museum that trumpets the Bible story of creation and rejects evolution is making room for an odd guest: Charles Darwin. 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