Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ken Ham spent ten minutes responding to a newspaper report that Ark Encounter ticket sales are declining, and never once showed the attendance numbers he obviously has.
In this episode I walk through the Courier-Journal story on the Ark's ten-year anniversary, show the safety-fee attendance data myself, and give Ken Ham credit where it's due about free admission for kids under ten. I also look at why Ken Ham posted a video about Dolly Parton's theology the day after she died, why the Answers Research Journal has slowed to a trickle of uninteresting articles, Harry Sanders' new attempt to estimate genetic diversity within a created kind, and a refreshed AiG article claiming snake genomes carry the evidence of Genesis 3:14. That last one raises more problems than it solves, starting with the forty separate snake kinds AiG says God created.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:36 The Ark Encounter attendance story
4:47 Ken Ham responds without showing data
6:50 What the safety fee numbers show
8:52 The free-admission caveat Ken Ham is right about
11:48 Ken Ham on the death of Dolly Parton
15:38 What happened to the Answers Research Journal
19:40 Harry Sanders on diversity within a kind
24:54 Snakes, the curse, and broken limb genes
32:53 What's coming up on the channel
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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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Ken Ham spent ten minutes responding to a newspaper report that Ark Encounter ticket sales are declining, and never once showed the attendance numbers he obviously has.
In this episode I walk through the Courier-Journal story on the Ark's ten-year anniversary, show the safety-fee attendance data myself, and give Ken Ham credit where it's due about free admission for kids under ten. I also look at why Ken Ham posted a video about Dolly Parton's theology the day after she died, why the Answers Research Journal has slowed to a trickle of uninteresting articles, Harry Sanders' new attempt to estimate genetic diversity within a created kind, and a refreshed AiG article claiming snake genomes carry the evidence of Genesis 3:14. That last one raises more problems than it solves, starting with the forty separate snake kinds AiG says God created.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:36 The Ark Encounter attendance story
4:47 Ken Ham responds without showing data
6:50 What the safety fee numbers show
8:52 The free-admission caveat Ken Ham is right about
11:48 Ken Ham on the death of Dolly Parton
15:38 What happened to the Answers Research Journal
19:40 Harry Sanders on diversity within a kind
24:54 Snakes, the curse, and broken limb genes
32:53 What's coming up on the channel
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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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