{"id":893,"date":"2009-02-06T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=893"},"modified":"2009-03-28T18:27:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:27:40","slug":"hamming-it-up-in-winter-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hamming&#8221; it up in Winter Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That icon of intellectual idiocy Ken Ham will be holding a Answers in Genesis Conference in Winter Haven on February 20Th-22ND. Ken Ham is not only stubborn, but willfully ignorant. Consider that he&#8217;s just spent an enormous amount of money building a facility to proclaim his plainly wrong theories to potentially hundreds of thousands of gullible visitors a year, and we may also add &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; to the list. This conference is sponsored by the Faith Baptise Church,who must be considered complicit in this attempt to persuade young minds that science and evolution\u00c2\u00a0are the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00c2\u00a0any one decides to attend,could you please contact Brandon or myself so we can post the account on this blog,just be prepared to leave your logic and reason at the door.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That icon of intellectual idiocy Ken Ham will be holding a Answers in Genesis Conference in Winter Haven on February 20Th-22ND. Ken Ham is not only stubborn, but willfully ignorant. Consider that he&#8217;s just spent an enormous amount of money &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=893\">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-ep","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":670,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=670","url_meta":{"origin":893,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Hamming It Up&#8221; in Florida","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"July 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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