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The Natural Historian blog<\/a> recently focused on one of the more bizarre aspects of Ken Ham's variety of young-earth creationism: it says evolution as mainstream biology understands it is wrong and impossible, and yet claims that evolution worked much faster than mainstream biology posits, in order to get from the small number of \u201ckinds\u201d in the ark to the large variety of species today. As Bill Nye emphasized, we should see new species appearing daily if that were true. But we do not \u2013 and the Bible does not mention anyone witnessing it either<\/a>. And so Ham's claim is false, even if judged in terms of the \u201cobservational science\u201d he says he accepts.<\/p>\n

The meme image below highlights that the resulting worldview Ham adheres to is blatantly self-contradictory:<\/p>\n

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