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My colleague Brent Hege has written what I consider to be quite possibly the most important critique of the Creation Museum from the perspective of Christian theology: \u201cContesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection.\u201d It was published in Theology and Science. UPDATE: There was a very small number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":21086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,101,108],"tags":[662,805,1369,2270,2306,12506],"class_list":["post-23803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-theology","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-answers-in-genesis","tag-article","tag-brent-hege","tag-creation-museum","tag-critique","tag-theological"],"yoast_head":"\n
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