Ken Ham, the founder and president of the Young Earth Creationist group Answers In Genesis, slammed churches that are participating in a series of discussions about faith and evolution this weekend, claiming that it is in fact the belief in evolution that is turning America into a theocracy.
Ham joined VCY America’s Jim Schneider on his “Crosstalk” program on Wednesday to discuss today’s International Darwin Day and the corresponding Evolution Weekend, in which houses of worship participate in discussions about the relationship between faith and science.
Ham reserved most of his criticism for the churches participating in Evolution Weekend and groups such as BioLogos, a Christian organization that “invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith.”
He claimed that people who promote the teaching of evolution in churches, schools and universities are turning the government into a pro-evolution theocracy.
“There is no such thing as separation of church and state,” he said. “The First Amendment doesn’t even have that first terminology in it, you know. The Establishment Clause is about the state not establishing a church, but the state has established a church, it’s the Church of Evolution with Darwin as the high priest, if you like, and a lot of these teachers and professors as priests in this religion of evolution that they’re imposing through the schools.”
This widespread teaching of the theory of evolution, Ham said, has caused God to raise up Creationist groups like his.
Ham, whose group is behind the Creation Museum and an upcoming Noah’s ark theme park in Kentucky, explained that evolution has nothing to do with science since it is a religious belief … unlike Creationism, which is based on science.
“What we’ve got to understand is molecules-to-man evolution, that’s not observational science, that’s a belief, that’s a story that people made up to try to explain how life arose,” he said, without a hint of irony. “Christians have an account of origins in the Bible that God has given us.”
He said that the study of genetics, geology and biology “confirms the Bible’s account of creation and the flood and the Tower of Babel, it does not confirm molecules-to-man evolution. Molecules-to-man evolution is a fairy tale.”
Ham said that evolution shouldn’t even be addressed as a theory since “there’s no evidence for evolution, so it’s not even a theory, it’s actually a belief, it’s someone’s belief, it’s a blind faith belief and there is no evidence for evolution.”
He reasoned that evolution can’t be possible because he can’t see it occurring before his eyes.
“You don’t observe evolution,” he said. “When you look in the glass cases in museums, you don’t see evolution, you see fossils, you see creatures that live on the earth. Evolution is pasted on the glass case, not in the glass case. It’s man’s interpretation, man’s belief, man’s religion.”
