Ken Ham
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Ken Ham in 2012
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| Born |
Kenneth Alfred Ham 20 October 1951 Cairns, Queensland, Australia |
| Alma mater |
Queensland Institute of Technology (B.AS.) University of Queensland |
| Occupation |
Young Earth creationist, Christian apologist, Evangelist |
| Organization | Answers in Genesis |
| Title | Founder, President, CEO |
| Spouse(s) | Marylin Ham |
| Children | 5 |
| Website | www |
Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born October 20, 1951) is an Australian-born Christian fundamentalist and young Earth creationist living in the United States. He is president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Creationist apologetics organization that operates the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.
Ham advocates Biblical literalism, believing that the Book of Genesis is historical fact and the universe is approximately 6,000 years old, even though scientific evidence shows the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the Universe about 13.8 billion years old.
Ham was born October 20, 1951 in Cairns, Australia. His father, Mervyn, was a Christian educator who served as a school principal in several schools throughout Queensland. According to Ham, he was inspired by his father, also a young Earth creationist, to interpret the Book of Genesis as "literal history" and first rejected what he termed "molecules-to-man evolution" during high school.
Ham earned a Bachelor of Applied Science, with an emphasis in Environmental Biology at Queensland Institute of Technology and a diploma in education from the University of Queensland. While in college, he was influenced by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris's 1961 book The Genesis Flood. Upon graduation in 1975, Ham began teaching science at a high school in Dalby, Queensland. Ham is married to Marilyn Ham; the couple have five children.
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