1. Kenneth Alfred Ham was born on 20 October 1951 and is an Australian Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist, apologist and former science teacher, living in the United States.
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Ken Ham is the founder, CEO, and former president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian apologetics organisation that operates the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.
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Ken Ham's father, Mervyn, was a Christian educator who served as a school principal in several schools throughout Queensland.
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Ken Ham earned a bachelor's degree in applied science from the Queensland Institute of Technology and holds a Diploma in Education from the University of Queensland.
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In 1977, Ken Ham began teaching at a high school in Brisbane, where he met John Mackay, another teacher who believed in young Earth creationism.
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In 1997, Ken Ham's organisation changed its name to Answers in Genesis.
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In February 2018, Ken Ham was disinvited from the University of Central Oklahoma, where he was scheduled to speak, after an LGBTQ student group objected.
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The AiG stayed with Ken Ham and continued to expand its staff and work closely with the Institute for Creation Research.
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Conference organiser Brennan Dean stated Ken Ham had made "unnecessary, ungodly, and mean-spirited statements that are divisive at best and defamatory at worst".
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Ken Ham accused Enns of espousing "outright liberal theology that totally undermines the authority of the Word of God".
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In February 2014, Ken Ham debated with American science educator and engineer Bill Nye on the topic of whether young Earth creationism is a viable model of origins in the contemporary scientific era.
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Ken Ham said that publicity generated by the debate helped stimulate construction of the Ark Encounter theme park, which had been stalled for lack of funds.
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Ken Ham believes the age of the Universe to be about 6,000 years, and asserts that Noah's flood occurred about 4,400 years ago in approximately 2348 BC.
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Ken Ham believes that Christians should "take back the rainbow", a popular symbol for the LGBT movement.
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Ken Ham has been awarded honorary degrees by six Christian colleges: Temple Baptist College, Liberty University, Tennessee Temple University, Mid-Continent University, Bryan College, and Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Ken Ham is married to Mally Ken Ham; the couple have five children.