Ken Ham: Noah Probably Had More Sophisticated Tools than We Do Today

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Do you remember the post I wrote a few months ago about young earth creationism and Noah’s ark? The point I wanted to make was that young earth creationists like Ken Ham view images that depict the ark as a small boat with pastel colored animals sticking their heads out of portholes as part of a conspiracy of sorts to downplay the legitimacy of the Noah’s ark story. After all, if that is people’s public image of Noah’s ark, they’re predisposed to assume that the could never have happened the way it’s written in the Bible, and to see it as a fairy tale. Today I want to draw your attention to a blog post written by Ken Ham that plays on exactly this theme. In it, he responds to objections concerning his new Noah’s ark theme park.

1. Why aren’t you using the tools Noah used?1 Where are we ever told what tools Noah used? There is no mention in the Bible or even any hint as to what specific tools Noah used. So the answer is, we don’t know what the tools were—no one knows!

I noted in my previous post that young earth creationists argue that Noah may actually have had access to more sophisticated technology than we have, in part due to their high intelligence—after all, the reasoning goes, there would have been as yet little time for mutations to build up following the creation of the perfect man, so Noah and his compatriots were likely more intelligent than we are today.

Take a look:

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You see, The Wholly Babble never says that Noah didn't use lasers, anti-grav platforms and nuclear power to build his giant wooden barge so ... he probably did because Noah was a 900-year-old engineering genius. Because no-one ever said that he wasn't.

In other news, Jebus probably used a hoverboard to 'walk' on the water, because it desn't say in the Babble that he didn't.

This Creationist stuff is easy! No wonder it's popular.