For the life of me, I cannot find a single independent report of this anywhere online, and it’s driving me batshit.
It seems that Ken Ham of the infamous Answers in Genesis (which I first encountered thanks to Kris Helphinstine using some of its Creationist literature in an Oregon public school) asserts that founding board member Carl Kerby delivered a “Creation message” to 2,000 assembled Marine recruits in San Diego back on February 3.
Answers in Genesis, according to Ham, has been receiving words of thanks such as the one from which he quotes, in which the father of one Marine recruit says that his son “was greatly motivated by Mr. Kerby’s message”.
Without any other reports, it’s difficult to tell just what occurred. Why was Kerby giving an address at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego? Was it really an overt “Creation message”, or just a more subdued religious one that Ham is trying to spin as a propaganda success for Answers in Genesis?
It’s too much to hope, I suppose, that someone out there reading this just happens to know a Marine recruit who was in attendance, and who therefore could clear up the confusion once and for all.
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