Talk:Ken Ham/RFC20140328

Proposed examples[edit]

Current text of the lede as of 18 March 2014:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim about the young age of the Earth, based on his interpretation of the Bible, is incorrect and dismissed as such by the scientific community.

Example provided by Gråbergs Gråa Sång:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim about the young age of the Earth is contrary to the scientifically accepted age of approximately 4.54 billion years.

Examples provided by jps on 28 March 2014:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. He believes the universe to be about a million times younger than it is.

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. He believes the universe to be about a million times younger than it is measured to be.

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim about the young age of the Earth is contrary to the measured age of approximately 4.54 billion years.

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim about the young age of the Earth is refuted by the measurement that the Age of the Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years.

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim about the young age of the Earth, based on his interpretation of the Bible, is incorrect by six orders of magnitude and dismissed as such by the scientific community.

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim about the young age of the Earth, based on his interpretation of the Bible, is off by six orders of magnitude from the best measurements of the age of the Earth, and, as all instances of young-Earth creationism, his arguments are dismissed as being pseudoscience by the scientific community.

Formulation provided by jps on 8 April 2014:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim that the universe is only 6,000 years old, based on his interpretation of the Bible, is contradicted by physical evidence found in the Earth's fossil and geological records.

Modified a bit 94.193.139.22 (talk) 11:50, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His claim that the universe is 6,000 years old, based on his interpretation of the Bible, is contradicted by evidence from astronomy and from the Earth's fossil and geological records.

Proposed formulation provided by Collect on 8 April 2014:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His religious belief in the literal inerrancy of the Bible is not supported by scientific consensus.

Possible hybrid formulation provided by AzureCitizen on 8 April 2014:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. His religious belief in the literal inerrancy of the Bible regarding the age of the Earth is contrary to the scientific consensus that the Earth formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago.

Possible formulation provided by MrBill3 on 8 April 2014:

Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is a young-Earth creationist. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum. Ham claims that the universe, which is about 14 billion years old, and the Earth, which is 4.5 billion years old, are only 6,000 years old based on his belief that the bible is literally and factually accurate.