"Ham"ing it up on both sides of the big pond

I skipped this story when I first saw it.

The creation museum's founder, Ken Ham, imagines his own truth. So what?

"What Darwinian evolution did I would say is provide what people thought was a scientific justification for separation of races," Ham said in an interview...Stalin, Hitler and Mao were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions - and it can be shown they did this because of the influence of Darwinian naturalism.

In the process, he seems to have conveniently forgotten Hitler's religiously justified genocidal obsessions. Hitler was actually screwed up on both fronts - science and religion.

Then, I saw a story in Education Week (subscription) that credits Ham with fomenting recent flareups in Europe. Ham is also the founder of Answers in Genesis, a Kentucky-based organization that is spreading its creationist theory to Britain and the rest of Europe.

"In October, the 47-nation Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog, condemned all attempts to bring creationism into Europe's schools. Bible-based theories and "religious dogma" threaten to undercut sound educational practices, it charged."

The focus of Ham's effort? School children.