A guest column by a pastor that took biblical creationists, in particular AiG President Ken Ham, to task for supposedly being antiscience, appeared recently in a Holland, Michigan, newspaper.
In Ken’s absence (he has been in England to speak at a conference), we asked our astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner (who eventually joined Ken in England) to respond on Ken’s behalf. It made sense too because Dr. Faulkner’s PhD in astronomy made him highly qualified to address the contents of the pastor’s column. However, the managing editor told us that the newspaper has a policy of “not print[ing] letters to the editor or guest columns from people outside of our coverage area, no matter the circumstance”—even when it’s to respond to what was written about a non-Michigander like Ken Ham. The editor did say that he would forward Dr. Faulkner’s letter to the columnist, Rev. Kurt Volbeda, “so you two can start a dialogue with each other.”
Here is what Rev. Volbeda wrote, which was posted to the Holland Sentinel website on October 24.1
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