2025 marks fifty years since Ken Ham gave his first ever creation apologetics talk. Since that time, Answers in Genesis has grown tremendously and has impacted millions with high-quality resources focused on proclaiming the truth of God’s Word.
In our conversation we’ll talk about why the book of Genesis is so foundational to forming a biblical worldview, how to understand the relationship between faith and science, the cause of and solution for our current societal and cultural issues, and gain a lot of wisdom from Ken Ham’s many decades of ministry.
From the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter to his latest book Ken Ham Daily: 365 Musings, Inspirations, and Answers, Ken shares insights from his 50 years of ministry.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Introduction to Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis
- The Foundation of a Biblical Worldview
- Faith and Science: Addressing Skepticism
- Insights from “Ken Ham Daily”
- Cultural Confusion and the Church’s Role
- Practical Advice for Parents
- Challenges and Blessings in Ministry
- New Developments at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter
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Additional Resources
- Answers in Genesis
- Creation Museum
- Ark Encounter
- Pick up a copy of Ken Ham Daily 365
- Ken Ham’s Debate with Bill Nye

Ken Ham Daily: 365 Musings, Inspirations, and
Ken Ham Daily: 365 Musings, Inspirations, Answers is an essential resource for Christian parents looking to strengthen their family’s faith and equip their children to stand firm in today’s culture. This collection of 365 daily readings by renowned apologist Ken Ham offers a unique opportunity to guide your family through biblical truths that address the most pressing spiritual and cultural issues of our time.
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Clay Kraby: Well, Ken Ham, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.
Ken Ham: Hey, it’s a pleasure to be with you.
Clay Kraby: You know, I’ve benefited a lot from Answers in Genesis and your books. My family and I took a trip out to see the Ark and the Creation Museum a couple of summers back. So I greatly appreciate the opportunity to talk with you about your new book. But for those who might not be as familiar, could you share a little bit about what your mission at Answers in Genesis is and what the work of the Creation Museum and the Ark is all about?
Ken Ham: Well, we really would say we’re a biblical authority ministry that also specializes in apologetics, and we’re very evangelistic. We actually teach people to think foundationally from God’s Word, to have a biblical worldview. We equip them with answers for the secular attacks of our day—that’s the apologetics aspect—and we point them to the truth of God’s Word and the saving Gospel.
And, you know, we’re called Answers in Genesis because the answers will always be in Genesis, because Genesis 1–11 is the foundation for everything. There’s nothing it’s not the foundation for. It’s the foundation for the rest of the Bible, for all of our doctrine. It’s the foundation for everything, for our biblical worldview.
As a ministry, I mean, it really started 50 years ago. In fact, this year is the 50th anniversary of when I gave my first-ever creation apologetics talk. And so it really began as an apologetics ministry to deal with the creation-evolution issue, and particularly, the way in which evolution was stopping people believing God’s Word. It was undermining the authority of the Word of God and causing Christians to doubt Genesis.
And that’s sort of how it all started to come about. But over the years, it’s matured a lot. And of course, our major emphasis is the authority of the Word of God, standing on God’s Word without compromise and helping people understand. If you want to deal with any issue in the culture—you know, for instance, you think of the cultural issues today: abortion, gay marriage, the gender issues, euthanasia, and they just go on and on, racism, and so on—you have to start from Genesis 1–11. Because once you do that, then you know what you believe as a Christian, why we believe what we do, and then we need to focus on why others have the wrong foundation of man’s word. And only then can you start to deal with their wrong secular worldview.
So we’re a creation apologetics, biblical authority, evangelistic ministry to point people to the gospel.
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Clay Kraby: So Answers in Genesis starts out as an apologetics ministry. It’s about biblical fidelity. And you’re putting out resources and books. And then along the way, you put together the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter—some things that people can come to and see and experience and touch. How did those things come together? And what role do you see that having in impacting people?
Ken Ham: Well, you know, Clay, really the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum—they’re the two leading Christian-themed attractions in the world now. And we’ve had over 14 million visitors to those two attractions since the Ark was opened in 2016 and the Creation Museum in 2007.
They really came about because of the vision I had going back to the ’70s, would you believe, when I was a high school teacher and taking students in my science classes to museums. But they were always from an atheistic evolutionist perspective. And I cried out to the Lord and said, “Why can’t we have a Christian museum, a Creation Museum that teaches the truth?” And so the burden for that goes way back there, to the ’70s.
And one of the reasons I believe the Lord had us build the Creation Museum and then, following on from that, the Ark Encounter was because so many of our Christian leaders compromise Genesis, believe in evolution, millions of years. Most of our Christian institutions do. There’s a handful, of course, that don’t. And there are some great pastors out there that stand on God’s Word. And I’m finding increasing numbers of them that have been impacted by our ministry. But we can’t get into those churches. So how do you get those people?
Well, if you build these world-class attractions—and they are world-class now. It’s interesting, when we first opened the Creation Museum, people thought, “Oh, it’ll be another cheesy Christian attraction because Christians sort of had that, you know, reputation for cheesy stuff.” But then when people came, they said, “Wow, this is the quality of Disney.” No, this is better than the quality of Disney.
And so if you build world-class attractions, people will come to them. And not only that, we want to not just impact people from churches but non-Christians as well. And we found 30% of those who come, for instance, to the Ark Encounter are non-Christians. I mean, the Ark is known all around the world because there are flood legends in cultures all over the world. You can go to gift stores all over the world and you’ll find little Noah’s Arks because everyone’s familiar with the account of the Ark in the Bible. And so people are fascinated by that.
And we built a life-size Noah’s Ark, which is the biggest freestanding timber-frame structure in the world. And it has 130 exhibits inside. And we have a zoo and we have zip lines, we have a carousel, and we have a virtual experience, a playground, a conference center—it just goes on and on. And the Creation Museum is like a walk through the whole Bible. And we have beautiful gardens. We have the world’s only conservatory exhibiting the plants of the Bible, using a conservatory for evangelistic means. And we have the most powerful pro-life exhibit in the world at the Creation Museum, and zip lines, and much more there as well.
And so what we find is people will come, they get impacted, they go back to impact others in their church. Non-Christians are impacted. In fact, surveys indicate, surveys that we’ve done, that about 6% of those who come say that they became Christians as a result. And if that research is valid, I mean you’re talking 60,000 odd people a year. So it’s having a tremendous impact on people’s lives.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, and I can just second all of that. Obviously, I don’t have the stats and information as you do, but in terms of just walking in there and seeing the quality of things, I think, unfortunately, the reputation for some Christian elements, be they movies or attractions, of being cheesy and poorly done is unfortunately well-earned. That is not the case. The moment you walk into either the Creation Museum or the Ark Encounter, you are immediately impacted by the quality and how well things are done. So, highly recommend people take a trip out there if they’re able to do that.
Now, a big part of Answers in Genesis is emphasizing a harmony between faith and science, whereas a lot of times those are pitted against each other. How do you address skepticism about the relationship between faith and science?
Ken Ham: Well, you know, Clay, that’s interesting because back in 2014, I debated Bill Nye, the Science Guy. And that debate was seen worldwide. In fact, it’s been estimated over 20 million people have seen that debate. And the debate was about the Bible and science.
And, you know, Bill Nye put it as science versus the Bible, whereas what I did was, the first thing I did when we started to speak was to say, we have to define our terms. We have to define what science is, for a start. Because the way Bill Nye was using science, he was saying science contradicts the Bible. The Bible’s a book of mythology. You can’t trust the Bible. You’ve got to trust science.
But the word “science” means knowledge. And there’s different sorts of knowledge. You can have knowledge about the past when you weren’t there. That’s called historical science. Or you can have knowledge gained by five senses in the present that builds technology. That’s observational science. And people need to understand there’s a big difference between historical science and observational science.
And that’s what I did at the debate. I said, there’s a big difference between what happened in the past when you weren’t there to see it. For instance, I said, “Bill Nye, you and I can go to the Grand Canyon. We can agree on how deep it is. We can agree on what type of layers are there—sandstone, limestone, et cetera. We can agree on how thick they are. We can agree on the size of the grains. What we don’t agree on is when it happened and how it happened.” Because he believes it was laid down slowly over millions of years and carved over millions of years. I believe it was laid down during the flood of Noah’s day, catastrophically, which is what the evidence confirms when you look in the present.
Layer upon layer, just without any evidence of erosion between layers and so on. Bill Nye would say there’s millions of years missing between the layers. I’d say they’re not missing. They never were there.
So you can have a different view of the past. And, you know, as Christians, we have a book called the Bible that tells us God’s always been there, and He told us what happened in the past. So we have an authority who was there who tells us what happened in the past. And knowing what happened in the past, we can then explain the present. Knowing that there was a global flood explains why there are fossils over the world. Knowing the event of the Tower of Babel explains why there are different people groups—not races—and different languages all over the world.
Knowing what happened in the past, that there was no death in the world, and then death came as a judgment because of sin, enables us to understand why we have a world full of death and life at the same time, and why we see suffering and disease. It’s all because of sin. And of course, the most important message of the Bible is the fact that we’re all sinners, and we all need salvation, which is why God sent His Son to die on a cross for us.
And so, one of the things that has happened is, because of our technology and because we live in what’s called a scientific age—particularly since the 1800s—many people have been indoctrinated to believe, “Oh, when a scientist says millions of years and evolution, we’ve got to believe them, because if we don’t, we’re giving up believing in the science that builds our technology.” But that’s not true. That’s what they have to understand. There’s a big difference between building technology and your beliefs about the past. And that’s the first thing that people need to understand.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, it’s actually a really helpful insight into a bit about Ken Ham Daily, because today’s entry that I was reading before we got on the call here is talking about this relationship between observational science and historical science that you just went into.
So you’ve got this new book, Ken Ham Daily: 365 Musings, Inspirations, and Answers. And it does just that. You turn to a page on that particular day, and you’re going to get information. It might be something that has to do with apologetics, something devotional. And today’s happened to be exactly what you went into. How did this book come about? How does this book differ from other daily devotional resources out there?
Ken Ham: Well, Clay, let me just say something. Hold it up again. And then hold it so that people can see the side of it. You can see the side. Turn it around and see the pages. The reason I want to do that is to say people look at that and say, “That’s an enormous book.” It is an enormous book. It’s what, 740 pages.
Ken Ham: It’s a daily reading for each day. The reason I wanted to show you that is because people say to me, “How long did it take you to write that?” Well, 50 years. Because really that book is a compilation of 50 years of experiences I’ve had—learning God’s Word, learning to answer people’s questions, and understanding the changes in the culture.
It’s not an ordinary devotional book. You know, my wife and I, over the years, have used various devotional books. And one of the things that’s unique about Answers in Genesis is that we take a different approach. For example, we have a VBS program that more and more churches are turning to now because it’s not your usual shallow, entertainment-type VBS. It has science experiments, biblical worldview, apologetics, Bible memorization, doctrine, and the gospel.
The same is true of our Sunday school curricula and Bible curricula—they’re different. Most Bible curricula I consider shallow, story-based. Ours are apologetics-focused, with a biblical worldview, walking chronologically through the Bible.
This book of daily readings follows a similar approach. It’s not your usual devotional. They’re like mini-sermons. If you use it as a family, you can have a mini-sermon to start each day. They’re divided into different sections and topics. I deal with apologetics, biblical worldview, where the culture’s at, lots of experiences, how I answered questions when people confronted me and challenged my faith.
It’s very practical in that regard. And it really is based on 50 years of ministry. And so, it’s a very unique sort of devotional. And I’ve been getting rave reviews from people. They just say it’s so different, it’s so unique.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, it definitely looks like a great resource, and it is a lot different than some of the other things that people might have come across from you before. Like the multi-volume Answers series—I think that’s a really great one that I’ve benefited a lot from, and my kids have benefited a lot from. So, this has taken, as you said, years of experience really getting compiled into this.
At what point did you start thinking about putting together a collection like this in one volume?
Ken Ham: Well, it was, you know, a few years ago I started thinking about the fact that people were asking me, “Would you do a study Bible?” I thought, man, you know how much work there would be to do a study Bible, to go from Genesis to Revelation and do that? And, you know, I’m not a theologian or anything like that.
And they would say, “No, but just one from a creation apologetics perspective.” And so I started thinking about that. What I did was, I wrote a book called Creation to Babel, which is a commentary on Genesis 1 to 11, because that’s one of my specialty areas. It’s a family commentary going verse by verse through Genesis 1 to 11.
But I thought, you know, I just can’t do that for the rest of the Bible. It would take the rest of my life—and another life, I think—to be able to do that properly. And so I thought, “You know, my wife and I were struggling to find new devotionals that we would love to use as a daily devotional.” And I thought, “Why don’t I do some sort of devotional?”
But for me, when I’m going to do something like that, I don’t want to do just the usual. I want to do something different. So I thought, “How do I do this?” To discipline myself to do this, Clay, what I did was I went back and found as many articles as I could that I’d written over 50 years. I wanted to get at least 400 or so of them.
I found over 400 articles that I’d written. Then I spent a whole year taking each one and modifying it, updating it, revising it, adding to it, changing it for the culture of our day and terminology, and so on. Then I posted it as a long, long tweet—well, what do we call it now? It’s called X, right, or Twitter—but very, very long. When they allowed the long-form tweets, I posted it on Facebook each day.
It’s interesting, I had a lot of people commenting that they loved those. A lot of people complained that you’re supposed to have only short posts on social media. And I didn’t tell them, but I had a reason for doing it that way.
Once I had done over a year of them, I went through them again, had a couple of editors go through them, and then our publisher also had an editor go through them. We put a lot of work into it and compiled them all. So, it’s taken 50 years to produce, but it took two years of hard work to get all that together.
Clay Kraby: Is it weird to read something you’ve written so long ago? Do you look at an article and go, “Ah,” or sometimes think, “Oh, that was really clever. I like that,” and you’re almost learning from something you wrote, you know, 40 years ago?
Ken Ham: It’s interesting you say that. I would say, yeah. There are times when I thought, “I’d forgotten about that argument. That’s a great argument. I better remember that.” And there were a lot of times where I would say, “I use the same argument today. I use the same argument today. I use the same argument today.”
Why is that? Well, then I realized it’s because the Bible doesn’t change. But then I had to also realize that when I started writing these articles 50 years ago, LGBTQ were letters of the alphabet. Today, they mean something else. And back then, you know, the rainbow was connected with the Bible and the flood, and now the rainbow has other connections. And the word “woke,” years ago, meant “I woke up from sleep.” And now it means something different.
So I obviously had to update it for where the culture’s at and what’s happened to the culture, which is, you know, really like what Romans 1 describes. And so I had to bring it all up to date and deal with all those issues—the gender issues, the culture issues, compromise in the church. The fact that we now see that Generation Z—less than 9% attend church. There’s been a catastrophic generational loss from the church.
So I’ve seen all those changes as well. I’ve seen changes and had to add in lots of things to deal with all the changes that have occurred in our culture. One thing I can say about Answers in Genesis—and, Clay, this is what our supporters tell us all the time, and they say it’s why we support you—is that we’ve seen many, many churches and Christian organizations soften their stand on Scripture to accommodate what’s happening in the culture in regard to, you know, gender, gay marriage, LGBTQ, etc.
Whereas in Answers in Genesis, we stand boldly on God’s Word without compromise. We don’t change God’s Word to accommodate the culture. We challenge the culture, and we stand on God’s Word. And that’s what’s unique about all these articles as well.
One of the things I could see, and I can say, is that we have never wavered—I have never wavered—from that stand on Scripture. So I never had to correct that aspect of things as I went through. But certainly, the message has matured. There are more powerful ways to say things. We have clearer understandings of things to be able to say them in a different way. And so God does mature you and mature the message.
In a way, I think this was the right time for those articles because now I could take all that wisdom and knowledge and experience I’ve had for 50 years and then upgrade them all.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, and just to give folks an example of the types of things that they might open a page to: I looked up January 23rd—my birthday—and there’s this article about helping people recognize the language of liberal theology. You give this example of a confession of faith that states the Bible “contains” the Word of God. And if someone’s not paying attention, it might sound fine; that might sound like something we would agree with. But you point out its flaws. Could you elaborate on why the statement, “The Bible contains the Word of God,” is a problem?
Ken Ham: Actually, you know, it’s interesting, Clay. And again, this is part of all that experience that I’ve gained over the years. When I was growing up in Australia, at the time we were attending a… Well, we attended many different sorts of churches—Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist—because my father’s teaching job got transferred around. A lot of towns only had one or two churches, and he would look for the one that stood on God’s Word the best.
But at that time, you had the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church. Well, then the Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church decided to unite and call themselves the Uniting Church. There were always a lot of indications that this Uniting Church was going to compromise God’s Word in many ways.
And, you know, my father pointed out to us—and this is the importance of parents teaching and training their children. That’s another reason I could even write this book because my father sat us down and said, “Look, this basis of union here that they have says the Bible contains the Word of God.”
Does it? Well, yes, but it doesn’t just contain it—it is the Word of God. And when you say it contains the Word of God, then it allows people the option to say, “Well, it contains it, so I can work out for myself what I believe it’s saying.” And you end up imposing your ideas on Scripture, reinterpreting it, and questioning miracles.
You start to say, “Well, the miracles didn’t really happen. They were just written that way.” Or, “A little boy didn’t really just take out his loaves and fishes—everybody else followed his example. It wasn’t really a miracle.”
You see, when you say the Bible “contains” the Word of God, you allow people to pick and choose what they want to believe. That’s the problem. My father taught us to recognize liberal theology a mile away, and I probably say that in that particular reading because many people don’t recognize that terminology is really important.
Sometimes terminology sounds good, but there’s a reason why they’re saying certain things. And, you know, often I can read something from a church and say, “The way they’ve written that, I bet they don’t take a stand on Genesis.” Or, “I bet they probably allow gay marriage.” They don’t even have to say it—you can just tell from the wording of what they say they stand for as a church.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, so important to be able to pick up on that. And that article is a great example of other things you’ll find throughout the book that help people just be a little bit more discerning, a little bit more aware of the times we’re in.
A lot of churches aren’t going to come out and say, “Yeah, we take a buffet-style approach to the Bible. We take what we like and ignore what we don’t.” They’re not going to say that, but they might say, “We believe the Bible contains the Word of God.” If you’re not paying attention, that stuff can really lead you astray.
Clay Kraby: And in so much of the book, it focuses on how far astray we’ve come in the culture, especially. How do you think our society has arrived at where we are right now—this moment of cultural confusion and hostility toward a biblical worldview?
Ken Ham: Well, you know, Clay, in a lot of ways in the Western world, I put the blame on the church. It’s interesting that as we’ve seen the younger generation leave the church, we’ve seen an increasing secularization of the culture.
If you think about Judges 21:25, it says, “When they had no king to tell them what to do, they all did what was right in their own eyes.” When God is not the absolute authority, man does whatever he wants in his own eyes. Out of that foundation comes moral relativism.
What we see in our culture today is that moral relativism has become the dominant worldview. Whereas in the past, the Judeo-Christian ethic, based in the Bible, was the dominant worldview. But what’s happened is, we’ve taken generations of kids through an education system—a secular system. People need to understand that secular is not neutral.
A lot of Christians have this wrong idea: “Oh, when you take God out, Bible out, prayer out of the education system, now it’s neutral.” The Bible says you’re either for Christ or against Him. You walk in light or darkness; you gather or scatter. You build your house on the rock, or you build your house on the sand. There is no neutrality.
I challenge people: change “secular” to “anti-God,” and then say, “My kids go to the anti-God education system five hours a day.” It’ll shock you into the reality of what’s really happening.
But you take generations of kids—85% of kids from church homes have gone through the anti-God education system. And the younger generations have received incredible indoctrination in an anti-God secular worldview—atheistic evolution. Unfortunately, many of our church leaders have condoned that system and told them they can believe what they’re taught at school but just trust Jesus for salvation.
You can’t impose the Christian message or worldview on the wrong foundation of man’s word. It won’t work. They needed to be counteracting what was being taught at school, giving them answers to defend the Christian faith, helping them understand that Genesis 1–11 is literal history. It’s the foundation for marriage; it’s the foundation for everything.
That hasn’t been done in many of our homes or churches. That’s one of the reasons why I think it’s led to such an anti-God worldview.
And remember, the reason for what you find in regard to the anti-Christian nature of what’s going on in our culture is because the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. So, as people rebel against God, because of their heart, they’re going to react very negatively to the Christian worldview.
You’re going to find this hostility there and this increasing persecution because they see it as you attacking them personally. But what’s happening is there’s a clash of worldviews.
I think that’s another problem: many Christians have tried to fight at a worldview level when the actual battle is at a foundational level. If you want someone to change their worldview from LGBTQ to believing marriage is one man and one woman and there are only two genders, then you’ve got to change their foundation from man’s word to God’s Word.
Only then can you help them build the right worldview. You can’t just attack the worldview; you’ve got to deal with it foundationally. That’s another reason why we’ve seen such hostility—because much of the church has just attacked the worldview instead of dealing with the foundational nature of the problem and the foundational nature of the solution.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, I’ve definitely come to that conclusion as well. I think there was a long period of time where Christians were attacking symptoms of the problem instead of going after the problem itself. Do you feel like that’s what really has led us to where we are—that there hasn’t been enough attention to those foundational issues?
Ken Ham: Oh, absolutely. And that’s one of the reasons why many people look at LGBTQ, the gender issue, abortion, racism, euthanasia, and they say, “How do we deal with all these problems?” Well, there’s an issue right there—they’re all the same problem.
The problem is they have the wrong foundation of man’s word, not God’s Word. And so, if they’re all the same problem, they all have the same solution. What’s the solution? The truth of God’s Word and the saving Gospel.
It’s only when there’s a heart change in regard to God’s Word and the Gospel that we’re able to deal with those worldview issues. As you said, all those issues in regard to gender and marriage, gay marriage, and abortion—those are symptoms of the problem. You can’t just deal with the symptoms; you’ve got to deal with the problem.
And the problem is they have that wrong foundation of man’s word. But we’ve got a really big problem in the church: most Christians don’t think foundationally, and they don’t understand that Genesis 1–11 is the foundation for all doctrine. It’s the foundation for marriage, gender, life, man having dominion over creation, and not the other way around. It’s the foundation for the Gospel. It’s the foundation for everything.
Once you understand that, then you understand how to battle foundationally. Only then can you start to deal with the symptoms.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, and this has got to start, you know, kind of in concentric circles. It’s got to start at home, then our churches, and then in our communities and things like that. How can parents—what practical steps can they take to make sure that they’re building Christ-centered homes and raising children with those foundational values in a hostile culture?
Ken Ham: Well, there’s certainly a lot of things we could say in regard to that. And, you know, for those—I know there are a lot of family issues these days—but for those who have a father and a mother and children at home, the father needs to be the spiritual head. In most homes, he is not the spiritual head. He’s not actually teaching his children and equipping them.
We need to be teaching our children foundationally—how to think foundationally from the Bible back to Genesis 1–11. And we need to be equipping them with apologetics to defend the Christian faith.
If I can say, Clay, we produce Bible study material, homeschool Bible worldview material, Christian school material, Sunday school material—those Answers books you mentioned before.
That’s the uniqueness of what we do. I think a lot of parents are so used to the usual Bible story devotional approach. You know, they teach Bible stories: Jonah and the great fish, feeding the 5,000, Paul’s missionary journeys.
Don’t get me wrong—they’re real events in the Bible. But I would encourage you not to use the word “story” anymore, too, as parents, because the word “story” has changed meaning and today means fairy tale. We need to emphasize the Bible as a book of history, a record of accounts, and so on.
Teach the Bible. Teach what the Bible teaches and teach doctrine. But you need to teach them how to think biblically—that Genesis 1–11 is the foundation for all of our doctrines. That’s the uniqueness of the materials we provide at Answers in Genesis and we provide those answers to the skeptical questions of our day. We produce curricula to be able to help parents and churches teach a true biblical worldview and equip them to defend the Christian faith.
I would also say, bring your children, bring your whole family, to the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. That’s what we do in all the exhibits. We teach them, equip them, and challenge them. It’s a very different way of presenting the Christian message.
I think churches have really strayed a long way from where they need to be. That’s one of the reasons why we’re seeing so many young people leaving the church. I believe the Lord has raised up Answers in Genesis because we’re a very unique ministry to deal with this battle right where it’s at—foundationally.
Clay Kraby: And of course, you know, folks watching and listening to this, it’s one thing to hear the CEO of Answers in Genesis say, “Hey, you should check out the resources from Answers in Genesis.” So let me just echo all that.
We’ve used them with our kids; I’ve used them personally. We’ve used them in small groups with our church—some of the video series. We’ve been to the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.
And I would say some of these resources are among the very first things that I would recommend, particularly with these foundational issues and especially with issues related to the book of Genesis. So, I highly recommend those.
And as you’ve mentioned a few times in our conversation, you’ve been doing this for many decades now. What has been the most challenging aspect of your work with Answers in Genesis, and what has been the most rewarding?
Ken Ham: Well, the most challenging aspect, I would say… really, you might be surprised at this. It’s not the atheists that attack us. It’s not the secular world that attacks us—they attack us in all sorts of ways, and have done so.
It’s really leaders in the church. I think that’s the most disheartening thing—to find so many of our Christian academics, theologians, and, not all, but the majority of them—Christian pastors and so on—would attack this ministry because they’ve compromised with millions of years or evolution.
I think the most challenging aspect is dealing with the church and the leadership in the church because then you’re accused of being unloving and unkind and all the rest of it. But we have to make that stand on God’s Word.
I’ve had so many of these Christian leaders say, “Why can’t we just agree to disagree on the age of the earth?” And I say, “I can’t do that because then what I’m saying is that I don’t believe my position is the right one. But I believe that standing on Scripture—six literal days, no death before sin—that is the right stand. And so I can’t agree to disagree.”
And when you can’t agree to disagree, they accuse you of hate speech and things like that. So that’s been the most challenging.
I think the most rewarding, though, is the fact that we receive testimonies weekly, day after day. There are so many now—having been out there, spoken all around the world, all across America, all 50 states in America, all across Australia, many places in Europe, and other parts of the world—I continually receive feedback from people who heard me as kids and said it changed their lives.
Now they’re training their kids to stand on God’s Word. People have become Christians—people who were saved through this ministry. Hey, you know what? For every person who is saved and commits their life to the Lord, there’s rejoicing in heaven.
I am thrilled that there’s been so much rejoicing in heaven because so many people have been saved through this ministry. That’s what it’s all about.
Clay Kraby: Yeah, lots of great work has been done for decades now from you and no doubt a very large team—much larger than when you started—over at Answers in Genesis. Just great work being done to great results, and we praise God for that.
Now, as we close, there’s always something new, it seems, coming out at the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. Is there anything that you’re excited about that you’re able to just mention and tell us what’s coming?
Ken Ham: Yes, in fact, at the Creation Museum, we just opened a conservatory. Now, it’s the biggest conservatory in Kentucky. It’s four massive glass greenhouses—climate-controlled, very technologically advanced. There’s a weather station on top, and there are four different climates: tropical, subtropical, Mediterranean, and arid.
We are exhibiting the plants of the Bible. There’s no other conservatory in the world that we can find that exhibits the plants of the Bible. It’s a self-guided tour through these. We also have some guided tours if people want them, and it references the plants in the Bible and their relationship to Scripture.
We end up in the arid greenhouse with some of the plants that could have been used—one in particular, we think, could have been used to make the crown of thorns placed on Jesus’ head. And then we present the gospel. So, in everything we do, there’s an incredible presentation of the gospel.
That is brand new, and we just opened our new zoo there as well. This whole new conservatory and zoo at the Creation Museum is really stunning and spectacular.
At the Ark Encounter, we will be opening in 2025—this year—a spectacular new Welcome Center. And then, beside that, as part of it—though it won’t open until 2026—we are building the most up-to-date archaeological model of first-century Jerusalem in the world.
It’s a 1:100 scale, 2,000-square-foot model, divided into three major sections, with all sorts of archaeological artifacts. It shows first-century Jerusalem, done in a world-class manner like nobody’s ever done before.
It will walk people through all of that and follow the footsteps of Jesus, leading up to the message of the cross. That, I think, will be a tourist attraction in itself.
The conservatory at the Creation Museum is a tourist attraction in itself. We’re always adding things, upgrading exhibits. We’ll be opening an exhibit sometime this year at the Creation Museum dealing with identity, because that’s become an issue in the culture with younger generations.
It addresses whether you can trust your feelings or not, how you determine your identity, and of course, the answer is that our identity is in Christ.
We’re all the time making sure the museum and the Ark are kept up to date culturally, so that we deal with those issues and help people be equipped.
Clay Kraby: And that’s one of the nice things. If you’ve been to the Ark or the Creation Museum, but it’s been a few years, no doubt you can go back and see a lot of new, great stuff and be refreshed on the things that you saw the first time around.
So again, you’ve heard me say it three or four times now: I highly recommend it. It’s a great experience—a great family trip. If you’re looking for a road trip here in 2025 and want to do something a little bit more edifying than, you know, Disney World or something like that (which can be great), this is something that will really impact them in more ways than one.
A lot of spiritual good can be done there. So, recommend that. I recommend all the resources from Answers in Genesis. I’ll link to some of my favorites in the show notes for this episode, and especially call your attention to Ken Ham Daily, the new book.
So, I’d just like to thank you, Ken Ham, for joining me for the podcast. It’s been a real honor to talk with you.
Ken Ham: Hey, thanks. Anytime.