Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This week I check in on the "world's largest" creation museum you've probably never heard of, and I ask whether Answers in Genesis should be letting AI review their research.
I take a look at Answers in Genesis' expanding Ark Encounter park, then head to Dixon, Tennessee to see how David Rives' Wonder Center is doing since its big-budget purchase. I dig into a lackluster week at the Institute for Creation Research, walk through Andrew Snelling's ongoing six-part rebuttal to Fazale Rana's soft tissue book, and make the case that young-earth organizations could use a large language model as an honest second reviewer for their journal articles. I close out with the funding fight between Noah's Ark Scans and Ark Encounter over whether a 4,000-year-old wooden ark could still be found on Mount Ararat.
Chapters
0:00 Intro: what's coming this week
1:01 Answers in Genesis' expanding Ark park
3:29 Checking in on the Wonder Center
5:59 The "world's largest" creation museum claim
7:40 Big dreams that never panned out
9:58 A slow week — ICR's forgettable articles
12:15 Snelling's six-part rebuttal to Fazale Rana
16:40 Should Answers in Genesis use AI reviewers?
22:04 A reply to Lenski's mutation experiments
23:04 Noah's Ark Scans and the wood-survival debate
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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This week I check in on the "world's largest" creation museum you've probably never heard of, and I ask whether Answers in Genesis should be letting AI review their research.
I take a look at Answers in Genesis' expanding Ark Encounter park, then head to Dixon, Tennessee to see how David Rives' Wonder Center is doing since its big-budget purchase. I dig into a lackluster week at the Institute for Creation Research, walk through Andrew Snelling's ongoing six-part rebuttal to Fazale Rana's soft tissue book, and make the case that young-earth organizations could use a large language model as an honest second reviewer for their journal articles. I close out with the funding fight between Noah's Ark Scans and Ark Encounter over whether a 4,000-year-old wooden ark could still be found on Mount Ararat.
Chapters
0:00 Intro: what's coming this week
1:01 Answers in Genesis' expanding Ark park
3:29 Checking in on the Wonder Center
5:59 The "world's largest" creation museum claim
7:40 Big dreams that never panned out
9:58 A slow week — ICR's forgettable articles
12:15 Snelling's six-part rebuttal to Fazale Rana
16:40 Should Answers in Genesis use AI reviewers?
22:04 A reply to Lenski's mutation experiments
23:04 Noah's Ark Scans and the wood-survival debate
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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