‘Makes Christianity Look Silly’: Creationist Ken Ham Unleashes on Pat Robertson

Young earth creationist Ken Ham lashed out at televangelist Pat Robertson over his claim earlier this week that someone has to be “deaf, dumb and blind” to believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, accusing Robertson of compromising “the Word of God.”

“Pat Robertson illustrates one of the biggest problems we have today in the church — people like Robertson compromise the Word of God with the pagan ideas of fallible men!,” Ham wrote on his Facebook page. “Pat Robertson is not upholding the Word of God with his ridiculous statements — he is undermining the authority of the Word. And any attack on the WORD is an attack on the person of Jesus Christ, who IS THE WORD!”

Ham, who runs Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry that takes the Bible’s Genesis account of creation literally, broke down the comments Robertson made on CBN’s “The 700 Club” earlier this week in a point-by-point analysis.

In addition to accusing Roberson of expressing “his utter ignorance of science,” Ham wrote that the televangelist “makes Christianity look silly.”

But Ham took particular exception to Robertson’s claim that there is no way that the Earth could have possibly come to fruition in such a short time span.

“Really Pat Robertson? You mean there is no way God, the infinite Creator, could not have created the universe in six days just six thousand years ago?,” Ham rhetorically asked. “God could have created everything in six seconds if He wanted [to]! And it’s not a matter of what you think anyway — it’s a matter of what God has clearly told us in His infallible WORD!”

As TheBlaze previously reported, Robertson unleashed his critiques on young earth creationists Tuesday, saying that they are mistaken in their views about the age of the planet.

“The truth is, you have to be deaf, dumb and blind to think that this Earth that we live in only has 6,000 years of existence, it just doesn’t, I’m sorry,” Robertson said.

He added, “I think what we’re looking at is that there was a point of time after the Earth was created, after these things were done, after the universe was formed, after the asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs — after that, there was a point of time that there was a particular human being that God touched — and that was the human that started the race that we are now part of.”

God believes in dragons, so do the people of Malaysia and china and Japan

Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?
Job 41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job 41:3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft [words] unto thee?
Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Job 41:5 Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job 41:6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Job 41:7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job 41:8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Job 41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10 None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Job 41:11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
Job 41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Job 41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?
Job 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round about.
Job 41:15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.
Job 41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job 41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Job 41:18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out.
Job 41:20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.
Job 41:21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Job 41:22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Job 41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
Job 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone].
Job 41:25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Job 41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
Job 41:27 He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Job 41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Job 41:30 Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
Job 41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.
Job 41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
Job 41:34 He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.

If we follow the genealogies that is roughly the time period we get.

Yes, if we follow the genealogies from Adam and I believe it has been figured out much better than I could ever do it.

But I can not see that it has much to do with how old the earth is.

genesis 2
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

We can see here that the author used days as generations.

We also need to consider it was after God did all of the work and rested that he made Adam.

Most believers will say it was just rehashed but I believe Adam was a special creation and was not part of the creation of man on the sixth day but well after that.

I believe that Adams people were called the sons of God and the men created on the sixth day were referred to as the men, here is an explanation.

genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Some people say they have found the missing link between apes and man, others say they haven,t but could it be that there never was any missing link and that the change came when the sons of Adam married unto the daughters of men?

I may or may not be on the right path but it is something to look into and I do believe it.

I know I can’t create something from nothing, even if I was given lots of time to do it.

Make a man out of dust....drop manna on the ground at night for 40yrs....have the sun and moon stand still so some people can win a battle.....Walk on water, or thru a wall.

When Jesus fed the multitude, he presented them with MREs from out of nowhere. The bread had dodged the season long planting thru harvest, then grinding and baking. Instant, meal ready fish? The time it takes for that.....

That’s why God is God, .....and we’re still stumbling, bumbling man, forgetting to put the lid down.

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