Kenneth Alfred Ham (born 20 October 1951) is anAustralianyoung-Earth creationist. He is thepresident ofAnswers in Genesis (AiG). Ham is also thefounder of theCreation Museum inPetersburg,Kentucky,United States.[1] He is a formerhigh schoolscienceteacher.[2]
Ham was born on 20 October 1951 inCairns,Queensland. His father was aChristianeducator who settled his family inBrisbane, working as aschool principal. Ham earned aBachelor of Applied Science degree fromQueensland Institute of Technology.[3] He also earned adiploma inEducation from theUniversity of Queensland.[3]
On 4 February 2014, at the Creation Museum, Ham debatedBill Nye (also known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy"). The topic was the question "Is Creation A Viable Model of Origins?". Thetelevised event drew over threemillion viewers.[3] Ham's position was theworld was created about 6,000 years ago. He also defended his position that all animals alive today descend from those aboardNoah's Ark.[3] Nyeargued thatradioisotopic andice coredata shows thatEarth has existed for much longer than 6,000 years.[3] He also added that using theBible'sdescription of the Ark it could notfloat.[3] A number ofexperts were critical of thedebate saying that it did not discuss important areas. At least one said neither did very well.[3] An informal viewer's poll showed 92% thought Nye won the debate.[3] However, "Debate is a tool for showing who's a better orator, not necessarily who's right.[3] And Ken Ham is no meanorator, usually," noted theNational Center for Science Education, anot-for-profit membershiporganization that defends the teaching ofevolution andclimate science."[3]
Ham said of his father:
| “ | He was always very adamant about one thing – if you can't trust the Book of Genesis as literal history, then you can't trust the rest of the Bible. After all, every single doctrine of biblical theology is founded in the history of Genesis 1:11. My father had not developed his thinking in this area as much as we have today at Answers in Genesis, but he clearly understood that if Adam wasn't created from dust, and that if he didn't fall into sin as Genesis states, then the gospel message of the New Testament can't be true either."[4] | ” |
He married Marylin "Mally" on 30 December 1972. They have five children together. The Ham couple live in unincorporatedBoone County, Kentucky.[5]
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