I have to confess that I have a soft spot for Ken Ham, a local boy who made it to the big stage. He grew up in the same Brisbane suburb as me. I had a slight friendship with his younger brother in my early teens, and Ken himself taught biology at the high school I attended. In the year I graduated, he quit teaching to start the Creation Science Foundation here in Queensland, and a few years later joined forces with his friend and mentor Henry Morris to spread the idea of young earth creationism in the USA. He is still doing it to this day. In my early 20s I went to a Creation Science event at which Ken shared the platform with an American biologist. At the time I was very receptive to creationism and was impressed by the American's presentation on the mathematical improbability of evolution. I remember being less impressed with Ken's presentation, but in hindsight it was probably more to the point. The Book of Genesis, he said, is a cornerstone of Scripture. It is qu
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson