Customer Reviews

Genesis and the Decay of the Nations

History is a subjective thing, and different sides can all give honest accounts that change the slants on various events. Ken Ham doesn't know his kings from his battles. He caricatures the dark ages as a bunch of cartoon eyeballs bumping into each other. He also says that Martin Luther heroically brought us out of them. Wrong on both counts: the Dark Ages was a period of history with little literary achievement, and its was secular humanists who gave intellectual backing to the Renaissance that gave impetus to the Protestant reformation. Another issue is the history of abortion. The practice existed in this country long before evolutionary theory, but Ken tries to blame evolution for this controversial issue.

Ham accuses evolutionists of using stick-men to denounce creationist views, but his image of Charles Darwin looks more like a grimacing Papa Smurf than a conservative Brit.

Like his other works, this book is simply propaganda, an insult to a mature, competent audience. To my knowledge, the only recognitions that Ken's books ever receive are the ones that his group lavishes on them. Many of the online reviews come from his employees as well. This is not a book for an aspiring intellectual.